What did I see?

[Barracuda]

This happened a long time ago, I'd say probably five or more years, but I just remembered it and I was wondering. My family was driving back from Florida and we were on the highway just coming into New Hampshire. All of the sudden an enormous green beam of light shoots across the sky from as far as I can see left to as far as I can see right and stays there for at least 5-10 minutes. My dad said he first saw it as we were crossing the Merrimack and we didn't pass under it until almost Manchester.

Now I know chemical lasers can be powerful, but there is no way in hell anyone could make a laser as focused, as wide, and last that long. I'm not into any of that UFO mumbo jumbo, but I definitely know what I saw and I know three other members of my family who could tell the same story.

My dad had a theory which sounds crazy but bear with me. He said that he knew a guy who worked for a secret weapons group called BAE systems and they were located in Nashua and Portsmouth. The theory is that the two towns are located on either side of the highway we were traveling and they tested a new laser between them. I haven't looked it up on google maps or anything so feel free to tell me I'm wrong because I don't even believe it. The only interesting part that would lead me to believe it may have been a hush hush type of thing is that there was no information about it after it happened. I mean this thing was HUGE, you couldn't possibly have not seen it.

What do you think I saw?

 

[Sharky.]

Meteor. (Yes, a green meteor.)

 

[buickgnx88]

Haha BAE Systems isn't a "secret weapons group" (or at least not the one my dad worked at).

 

[G.T.Ace]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)

 

[Sharky.]

I was thinking aurora ^ at first, but Diablo's description doesn't really sound like aurorae. Any other details you can give us, D?

 

[Barracuda]

Seriously? This was completely, and I do mean completely, solid as far as I could see either way for at least 5 minutes, my dad says 10. I don't know anything about meteors so you could be right, but this was also pretty damn thick too. It's hard to explain how thick it was because it was in the sky, but if I were to try I'd say if I was to extend my arm and put the beam between my fingers it would be at least 3/4 to a full toothpick.

Maybe not a secret weapons group then, but from what I see on their website I wouldn't put the technology past them.

It wasn't an aurora, there was no fraying in the light, it was a completely straight and solid beam.

 

[G.T.Ace]

Then it must be some kind of laser.
Nothing else is powerful enough to create such a focused light on such a long distance.

 

[buickgnx88]

Must have been Dr. Evil!

 

[phone]

A group of green lighted ufo's?

 

[LSX]

Was it day or night? I'm not sure lasers are even visible in the daylight like that. I could be wrong, but if it was not a laser, I haven't got the slightest clue what it would be.

 

[niky]

Disco opening?

 

[Barracuda]

It was getting dark when it happened, probably 20 minutes before it was completely dark out. I couldn't tell you the exact time because I haven't lived there for four years and I can't recall when it gets dark, and it could have been during the spring or summer.

Who knows, I feel loony for talking about it because it's hard to believe, and I don't have any evidence to back it up. We didn't have a camera on us, or at least one with the technology to take a decent picture from a moving vehicle when there's little light out.

I was half expecting to wake up this morning and see it in the claims thread, lol.

 

[Famine]

Haha BAE Systems isn't a "secret weapons group" (or at least not the one my dad worked at).

If they were, would you know about it?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Meteor. (Yes, a green meteor.)

I've seen one of those. I've also seen a purple-blue one. It comes from minerals or oxides or salts or something geological igniting as the meteor enters the atmosphere.

 

[wfooshee]

The fact that you've discussed what you've seen on a public forum means They're coming after you now to silence all of you forever.

Damn, I posted, so They're coming after me, too. OMG!!!!

 

[Famine]

I think I just heard the DoD buying several litters of cute little puppies...

 

[ExigeEvan]

I think I just heard the DoD buying several litters of cute little puppies...

Area 51

Area 51

Area 51



Goddamn that's an oldie

 

[GilesGuthrie]

What were the atmospheric conditions like? Clear? Cloudy? Humid?

 

[niky]

A green meteor typically won't leave a streak that lasts for a minute... let alone five.

 

[Touring Mars]

It just so happens that DRS Technologies have a facility in that area, and they specialise in defense technology, including "Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA)", including 'aiming lasers'... you might have seen them testing such a thing.

 

[buickgnx88]

If they were, would you know about it?

Good point!

 

[ghshome]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

 

[Barracuda]

What were the atmospheric conditions like? Clear? Cloudy? Humid?

It was very clear, almost not a cloud in the sky.

It wasn't a green flash, it was a beam. You could see sky below and above it and the sun wasn't visible.

 

[Public'sTwin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

Green flashes last but an instant and are notoriously difficult to capture on film.

 

[niky]

Mass hypnosis? Optical trick? Light refraction off stratospheric ice crystals, causing a prismatic effect only visible from a certain point on the road?