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2010-02-08 02:21:00 UTC: N45 W73.5 - Mooers, NY
2010-02-06 19:30:00 UTC: N36.75 W81 - sterling, VA
Around 6:00pm or so, we saw a small flash of light from the sky, while we were out in a field, x-country skiing. We wondered a little if it was lightning, but the sky was clear above us, slight clouds away from overhead, no thunder, major snowstorm had ended a couple of hours earlier??? Then about 7:30 pm, we saw another bright flash of light, as the first,scaring us and making us think of lightning. We looked up into the sky and saw 2-3 more bright light bursts, but with a bluish, (possibly with a bluish/green hue in 1), fairly bright colored large patch of light, but so quick we wondered at first if we'd really seen them, but 3 of us saw at least the last one,2 saw at least 2, 1 saw 3 colored flashes all towards the east from where we stood.Fairly large colored area, maybe 10-20% of the sky area???Was like nothing we've ever seen, other than pictures of the Northern Lights, which 2 of the three of us thought of after it ended. We kept looking up for another 15 minutes or so, but saw nothing. Then on way home, around 8:30pm, saw several more light flashes, but when looked up, did not see more.Please let us know if there were any sightings besides ours, and if you think they were the aurora borealis or what you think it might have been. Thank you.
