big flash in the sky...eastwards

Doom

I was just on the road from Galway towards Craughwell.... Huge flash just lit the sky up in the east.
Anyone see it or know what I was?

MonkstownHoop

End of days................

L1m1tless

Fireworks

mattjack

If you see Four Horsemen come back and tell us.

wp_rathead

Flash?!

Awhhh-ahhhhhh

Savior of the Universe

stimpson

Conmaicne Mara

Sorry, I'll stop lighting my farts, I know it's childish, but old habits die hard.

darkpagandeath

Did you notice a strange cylinder on the common ?

Fr_Dougal

Doom wrote: »

I was just on the road from Galway towards Craughwell.... Huge flash just lit the sky up in the east.
Anyone see it or know what I was?

Bogger forum

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Doom

Fireworks maybe. ...if so, God help their eardrums. Lit the sky up and looked far away....

harris33

:Dnope

Doom

mattjack wrote: »

If you see Four Horsemen come back and tell us.

There is only 3 here...bloody recession!

Larianne

They now have street lights out that direction? Wow.

dodderangler

mattjack wrote: »

If you see Four Horsemen come back and tell us.

Plenty of horsemen in galway. That's nothing new

jprboy

The gas that accumulated as a by-product of the all-Ireland celebrations in Clare blew in on a southerly wind, someone stepped outside the pub to light up and.........

BillyMitchel

God turning on his flash light to try see where little baby Jesus has run off to.

Nodin

Doom wrote: »

I was just on the road from Galway towards Craughwell.... Huge flash just lit the sky up in the east.
Anyone see it or know what I was?

Thou hast displeased the Thunder God. You must offer sacrifice.

Seedy Arling

Doom wrote: »

I was just on the road from Galway towards Craughwell.... Huge flash just lit the sky up in the east.
Anyone see it or know what I was?

A pervert on the loose in East Galway?

Pj!

http://cdn.meme.li/i/ov8at.jpg

BlurstMonkey

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Bogger forum

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Dickhead forum

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hansfrei

Probly you're mad in the head OP. Don't worry about it.

javagal

Eh lightning?

Duff

Chinese lantern.

jobeenfitz

javagal wrote: »

Eh lightning?

Jesus, lightning as well now.

OneArt

Only a flash?

I knew I should've added more newt eyes.

anncoates

An unfortunate gas explosion and resultant conflagration in a studio where The Sawdoctors are currently rehearsing.


Hopefully.

Menas

anncoates wrote: »

An unfortunate gas explosion and resultant conflagration in a studio where The Sawdoctors are currently rehearsing.


Hopefully.

He said driving east of galway...not north of galway!

bnt

Spoiler Alert: Iridium Flare

notnumber

javagal wrote: »

Eh lightning?

lightning? or is that too obvious..maybe its god talking a pic with his smartphone?
weather forum ---->

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEmpagABHmg

buzsywuzsy

I saw it too OP

Doom

javagal wrote: »

Eh lightning?

Yip...had a look in weather forum. There is lightening in the east.

Doom

hansfrei wrote: »

Probly you're mad in the head OP. Don't worry about it.

Sure we all know that....moo!

Pj!

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=lightning;sess=

kneemos

Doom wrote: »

Yip...had a look in weather forum. There is lightening in the east.

Nope.No lightening in October.

wp_rathead

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

Dickhead forum

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Fairness think AH is Dickhead forum :pac:

vicwatson

Doom wrote: »

Yip...had a look in weather forum. There is lightening in the east midlands.

FYP

tosspot15

The green flash in the sky! His demons were here all along, in our hearts and in our souls!

canadianwoman

Agent Jay and Agent Kay must be in Galway.

bnt

Anyway: hate to be a spoilsport, but it was almost certainly an Iridium Flare.

The website Heavens Above has a prediction service, and it tells me that one was visible in Galway at 21:03 this evening, in the east-south-east direction (111° bearing) at 53° above the horizon. Since you weren't in Galway centre, there would be some variation in the time and position in the sky, but that's close enough for rock 'n' roll ... :cool:

castletownman

Winter is coming and the Wildlings are building the biggest fire the North has ever seen.

Mr Benevolent

Probably an ESB transformer going nova. Eerie until you know what it is.

mattjack

bnt wrote: »

Anyway: hate to be a spoilsport, but it was almost certainly an Iridium Flare.

The website Heavens Above has a prediction service, and it tells me that one was visible in Galway at 21:03 this evening, in the east-south-east direction (111° bearing) at 53° above the horizon. Since you weren't in Galway centre, there would be some variation in the time and position in the sky, but that's close enough for rock 'n' roll ... :cool:

So , no apocalypse or rapture ?

jobeenfitz

buzsywuzsy wrote: »

I saw it too OP

You shouldn't be encouraging the lunatics, its not helpful.

tosspot15

bnt wrote: »

Anyway: hate to be a spoilsport, but it was almost certainly an Iridium Flare.

The website Heavens Above has a prediction service, and it tells me that one was visible in Galway at 21:03 this evening, in the east-south-east direction (111° bearing) at 53° above the horizon. Since you weren't in Galway centre, there would be some variation in the time and position in the sky, but that's close enough for rock 'n' roll ... :cool:

Pretty sure Iridium Flares dont make "flashes" in the sky. If anything they look like the space station passing over, except fainter, or even a shooting star.

Its most likely lightening. We've been having thunder and lightening quite a bit the past 2 nights.

StewartGriffin

bnt wrote: »

Anyway: hate to be a spoilsport, but it was almost certainly an Iridium Flare.

The website Heavens Above has a prediction service, and it tells me that one was visible in Galway at 21:03 this evening, in the east-south-east direction (111° bearing) at 53° above the horizon. Since you weren't in Galway centre, there would be some variation in the time and position in the sky, but that's close enough for rock 'n' roll ... :cool:

tosspot15 wrote: »

Pretty sure Iridium Flares dont make "flashes" in the sky.

I think they do.

pharmaton

kneemos wrote: »

Nope.No lightening in October.

lot of lightning around these parts the last day or two, (south) anyways op, about ten years ago was in a car driving eastward from Galway and there were a whole load of these huge big flashes in the sky, not lightning it was like a very fast lighthouse beam that engulfed the entire sky. The driver noticed it first, we were all looking out the window waiting for it to happen again and when it did we all went silent, it was the freakiest thing. To make matters worse the tape deck in the car started slowing down til the music was just a drone and the engine began shuddering in stops and starts with the headlights dimming in unison.

The car eventually came to a halt on the side of a road in the middle of nowhere, it was dark and there were no other discernible features than hedgerows and trees around us. We got out of the car and tried to push it in off the road but saw that both the tyres on the driver side were flat! We were all a bit freaked out but the boys managed to put on brave faces and get a least one of the tyres changed (the other was more of a slow puncture that we would live with if it got us the hell out of there)

We did get back on the road again but not one of us spoke a word for the rest of the journey.

bnt

tosspot15 wrote: »

Pretty sure Iridium Flares dont make "flashes" in the sky. If anything they look like the space station passing over, except fainter, or even a shooting star.

You are connected to the Internet, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMc4gvRt390

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymzXNdXwmo

Andrewf20

I saw a fireball shooting across the sunny sky in Arklow in the summer of 2001 at around 16:30 while cycling home from work. No one else saw it, nor the papers. Like a meteorite. Lasted all of 3-4 secs.

Lapin

Andrewf20 wrote: »

I saw a fireball shooting across the sunny sky in Arklow in the summer of 2001 at around 16:30 while cycling home from work. No one else saw it, nor the papers. Like a meteorite. Lasted all of 3-4 secs.

Chinese Lantern.

Lapin

bnt wrote: »

You are connected to the Internet, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMc4gvRt390

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymzXNdXwmo

Chinese Lanterns


Just very far away.