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High altitude ice crystals, most likely...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060305.html

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Yeah, looks a bit like the aurora borealis, I've seen that many times when I was in the army in northern parts of Norway, its there like every other night, sometimes less sometimes more, but one time, I was up on the mountains sleeping in a tent, I went out to pee, and I looked up, and this stuff covered the ENTIRE sky, I'm not joking, it was insane, like a goddamn disco, the ENTIRE sky was change shapes and colors. Its really worth seeing that stuff in real life, its a fantastic sight, and I dont think I'll ever forget that, I stood there for several minutes, just mesmerized.. Pictures and video will not do it any kind of justice..

I've seen the aurora as well, and as you describe, it's well outside any other experience, defying description. Mesmerizing as you say. It was one of those things I had on my "before I die" list. This is different, though. These are little ice platelets in the sky that reflect lights from the earth or from the sun over the horizon. If you look at the video, you'll see that the biggest one has the lights of a city just below it, which is the light source of the reflection.

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and could you be meaning "Iraq"?
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wait, I just googled it. That could be a viable spelling, I'm an idiot.

maybe they're contrails triggered by rocket launches / artillery fire.

idiots. This is shot out of an airplane window, correct? It is probably the effects of the plexiglass or whatever and/or the micro-scratches. Just like when you look through glasses or a car windshield you can see effects like this.

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Well this idiot thinks that sounds like a diesel in the background and I don't know of many airplanes with such an engine. The sound of dirt underfoot would seem to negate it being on a boat. They are filming through a light enhancing scope or other device, which would be particularly sensitive to the above mentioned atmospheric phenomina of high altitude ice crystals, Mr. Dirt.

I'd like MG's opinion on this.

they're definitely walking around on the ground, looking through infrared goggles, which collect and display ambient light of higher wavelengths than our eyes can collect. Some of the lights do seem to be associate with areas of ground light (city areas).


brainstorming a few ideas
-spotlights and high altitude water vapor/ice? hell of a lot of them; soldiers have never seen them before
-aurora-like sun-related phenomenon? pretty far south
-rockets/contrails? they all appear to be vertical
-lens flair/optical noise? seem to stay vertical while the scope turns; soldiers have never seen them
-mystery military weapon? doesn't seem to be doing anything

I think the idiot is the one with the EXPIRED pork chop sideburns.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeIImbZpCo

It could very well be something as simple as a tower with a light on it. NVGs take even the faintest of lights and can turn them into miniature suns in the goggles. That could effectively make the structure disappear and only show just the light.

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