Photo of the day

Credit: Samuel Hartman

Skywatcher Samuel Hartman of State College, Pa., snapped this photo of the amazing Oct. 24, 2011 northern lights display. The aurora display was created from charged solar particles from an Oct. 22 sun storm that took two days to reach Earth.

from SpaceCom

a history of recent solar storms causing similar auroras LINK

A lot of conspiracy sites say such auroras predict war, but since there are wars and disasters nearly every year, that doesn't say much. This one caused spectacular auroras, but the real worry is that a "big one" will zap computers world wide.

But even the Solar storm site does mention the big solar storm of January 1938, calling it the "Fatima storm"......because at Fatima one of the prophacies was that a "light in the sky" would be a warning of a coming war.

The Great Aurora was seen over the whole of Europe and as far south as Southern Australia, Sicily, Portugal and across the Atlantic to Bermuda and Southern California...Fire department of Salzburg was called out to quench what residents thought was their town in flame... This same impression of the aurora also struck Londoners during the January 1938 aurora who also thought their entire city was aflame... In San Diego, forest officials in the town of Descanso about 40 miles east, were routed out of bed on January 22 to respond to reports of 'great fire in the back country'. ... Meanwhile, in Scotland, many of the more superstitious people living in the lowlands 'shook their heads and declared the northern lights always spelled ill-omen for Scotland. The phenomenon also had some side effects. It was responsible for delaying express trains on the Manchester to Sheffield line after electrical disturbance hit the signaling apparatus...

Albert Speer's biography has a chilling rememberance of the storm, or maybe another storm, since his jail memoirs thought it was in 1939 discussed a red aurora that was present when Hitler's minions were discussing the upcoming war...but he remembers it in July or August 1939, when there was no big solar storm...since his memoirs were written in jail, he might have had a selective memory.

In the course of the night we stood on the terrace of the Berghof
with Hitler and marveled at a rare natural spectacle. Northern lights 1
of unusual intensity threw red light on the legend-haunted Untersberg
across the valley, while the sky above shimmered in all the colors of
the rainbow. The last act of Gotterdammerung could not have been more
effectively staged. The same red light bathed our faces and our hands.
The display produced a curiously pensive mood among us. Abruptly
turning to one of his military adjutants, Hitler said: "Looks like a great
deal of blood. This time we won t bring it off without violence/' 2

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