Nathan Hall's Wired Kingdom

So my Juliette and I caught the lunar eclipse the other night with one of our neighbors. There was intermittent cloud cover which meant that we would only see about thirty seconds before the moon was covered for more than a couple minutes. It was fun, but not nearly as great as the eclipse I witnessed back in August, probably due to the aforementioned clouds.

At some time between 10:15 and 10:30 we were all leaning against the car, just chatting when suddenly the whole sky lit up in a brilliant blue green flash. It was bright enough that it lit up the neighborhood, lasted about 3 to 5 seconds and then flashed out. It was without doubt, one of the most intriguing things I’ve ever witnessed. We were all floored by it, a couple of neighbors came over and asked if we had seen the event as well, and there was much excited chatter for a while.

Since then, I’ve contacted the City of Lake Worth to see if any transformers had blown, nope. I’ve gone to meteor siting pages, local newspapers, I even contacted the news desk at the paper I work for, basically combing the web as best as I could to figure out what it was and have come back from the search empty handed.

So, basically I have two hypothesis on what happened. Either it was a meteor that went unreported or it was a piece of junk flying off of the satellite that got shot down. The latter seems very improbable though, because it was shot down over the Pacific, near Washington and Canada. Perhaps debris could cross more than 2500 miles in a very short time, but I haven’t heard any reports of others witnessing debris falling anywhere in the southeast at all.

Okay, it was either a meteor or aliens. I’m coming down on the side of aliens and pledging my allegiance to them now, others would do well to follow suit.