Saw an eerie blue/white lighting up of the entire western section of the sky above Los Angeles.
Driving west at 1:15am on September 13, we observed an enormous lighting up of the sky above Los Angeles. It was a huge flash of a blue/white glow and scared all of us riding in the car. It was so enormous and so sudden and so bright that all of us thought that a nuclear device had gone off. We were situated just a few miles east of downtown on the 10 Freeway looking toward the west so that whatever it was could have originated from the ocean. We called a few local radio stations at the time, but no one knew what we were talking about. Do you know what that was? So as to reinforce my credibility, let me tell you that no one in our party had been drinking and we are all over 50 years old, my husband is a management consultant and I am a lawyer. We were returning from the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona (east of Los Angeles - the flask we saw was in the west and covered the entire westerly sky).
This was very disturbing - what with the current political situation, everyone's first thought was of some kind of terrorism. But, it seems clear that this was not the case and it must have been some kind of natural phenomenon or maybe. . . .
Please advise. It's driving us all nuts to know that we witnessed something extraordinary and not to be able to find out what it was.
Thank you, ((name deleted))
Driving west at 1:15am on September 13, we observed an enormous lighting up of the sky above Los Angeles. It was a huge flash of a blue/white glow and scared all of us riding in the car. It was so enormous and so sudden and so bright that all of us thought that a nuclear device had gone off. We were situated just a few miles east of downtown on the 10 Freeway looking toward the west so that whatever it was could have originated from the ocean. We called a few local radio stations at the time, but no one knew what we were talking about. Do you know what that was? So as to reinforce my credibility, let me tell you that no one in our party had been drinking and we are all over 50 years old, my husband is a management consultant and I am a lawyer. We were returning from the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona (east of Los Angeles - the flask we saw was in the west and covered the entire westerly sky).
This was very disturbing - what with the current political situation, everyone's first thought was of some kind of terrorism. But, it seems clear that this was not the case and it must have been some kind of natural phenomenon or maybe. . . .
Please advise. It's driving us all nuts to know that we witnessed something extraordinary and not to be able to find out what it was.
Thank you, ((name deleted))
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Los Angeles
USA
2 SECONDS
2 SECONDS
34.04
-118.30
flash
CA
Occurred : 9/13/2003 01:14 (Entered as : 09/13/2003 01:14) Reported: 9/14/2003 6:11:34 PM 18:11 Posted: 9/17/2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Shape: Flash Duration: 2 SECONDS
Saw an eerie blue/white lighting up of the entire western section of the sky above Los Angeles.