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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnexplained 'Phoenix Lights' explosion caught live on news broadcast.
A Phoenix Fox 10 reporter for was in the middle of a traffic report when the a bright white explosion of light suddenly appeared in the distance behind her.
The strange blast was caught on tape and aired live during Andrea Robinson report, illuminated the sky for a split second.
News station employees initially thought the impressive explosion may have been a transformer.
But when FOX 10 checked with local utility providers APS and Salt River Project, they were told no transformers had blown in the area.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112870/Unexplained-Phoenix-Lights-explosion-caught-live-news-broadcast.html#ixzz1ofpaTenD
xchrom
(108,903 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)that something that big didn't trigger calls to 911.
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)It's been squashed to fit the column width. Look at the box with the "10" in it. It's supposed to be square.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)proposed by the teabags in Phoenix!
Not a day goes by...
Archae
(46,340 posts)Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)(See: second slo-mo pic)
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)They only report
no investigation, NOTHIN
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)lightning experts to find out if it could be some type of ball lightning.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)QUIZ: Which four words of that will FOX use as an explanation?
icymist
(15,888 posts)and make me laugh. Thank you my friend.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)thing to pull off but on the other hand on Sunday there is a screening of an award winning documentary about the 1997 UFO phenomena over Phoenix so this unexplained event seems oddly coincidental.
http://www.examiner.com/paganism-in-phoenix/arizona-screening-of-the-phoenix-lights-documentary-on-march-11-2012
niyad
(113,524 posts)I loved watching the authorities stepping all over themselves trying to come up with explanations for what we saw. My personal favourite was the old standby "swamp gas", and going downhill from there.
I wish I had kept a copy of the paper the next day.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)wondering what they will come up with?
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)Plasma and charged particles from solar flares produce auroras. Maybe the bright explosion had to do with solar flares too.
http://www.livescience.com/18985-solar-flare-active-sun-storms.html
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)But at least it's a theory. I'm baffled how the story has been dropped.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)figured out for sure what it was.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)bet it was. It certainly makes sense.
Thanks for the link.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)There was a sound like a rocket going through the air, then a bright flash and a loud explosion. At first, I thought that an airplane had crashed, but the local news said it was a meteor explosion.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)near the ground?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)it can explode when it hits the ground.
When it's really large, it can create a big hole in the ground:
http://www.meteorcrater.com/
Rex
(65,616 posts)Sorry, got carried away. Been holding it in all day long.