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Originally posted by doesntmakesense
Could the pressure caused from hydraulic fracking pumps constantly pulling in gas from the earth have something to do with it? Those natural events you listed all seem to involve vibrational energy and that seems to me what the infrasound detectors detect. If that's the case, I'd reckon the drilling and/or operation and/or explosion of said wells could cause the vibrations felt. Just my 2 pence
Originally posted by LoveisanArt
Maybe its HAARP.
Since they have been very active in their "atmosphereic research" many anomolies have been going on. Ever since human kind have been tinkering ignorantly with their new technology, strange things have been going on with this planet.. coincedence? I dont believe in coincedences..
Or maybe its volcanoes
Originally posted by westcoast
ETA: Thanks for the info, fireballstorm!! Although, I will say that I have been avidly watching the skies here for years now and NEVER saw anything even close to this.
Originally posted by Pirateninjah
Is this upside down / circle rainbow phenomenon comparatively recent?
Originally posted by Pirateninjah
I've never seen anything like that before.
Tobias Lowitz observed this famous display at St. Petersburg June 18, 1790. It lasted for several hours and to some extent his drawing is a composite. Lowitz drew a number of rare arcs but none so controversial as those marked with red arrows. They extend downwards from each sundog to join the 22° halo and were subsequently named after him.
The non-Lowitz halos agree reasonably well with the all-sky HaloSim4 simulations made for the display's peak at ~10am when the sun was 51° high. Outwards from the sun Lowitz shows a 22° halo and circumscribed halo then a 46° halo. There is a complete parhelic circle with two 120° parhelia. Below the sun Lowitz shows two prominent infralateral arcs. The lower sunvex arc tangent to the 22 degree halo is puzzling. It could be a lower tangent arc seen earlier when the sun was lower. In the same sense, Lowitz shows a circumzenithal arc that could only have been seen earlier in the morning. Wegener arcs extend from the top of the circumscribed halo over the sky to the anthelion. Greenler's book has a very good account of the display.
Originally posted by Pirateninjah
I've never seen anything like that before.
Because you've never seen a blue whale (assuming you haven't) does it mean they do not exist? Have you ever gone out of your way to look for one?
I've encountered numerous people that have not seen or heard of them before I pointed them out. People in general don't notice them because they don't look for them.
Have a read through this site, and you'll probably learn about many other atmospheric optical phenomena that you were not previously aware of: www.atoptics.co.uk...