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10-25-2001, 10:49 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Big Blue light last night in RHody...
Anybody fishing Rhody lat night know what the big bang & blue light was from Westerly? There was this massive blue light fromt the airport area last night that shot up in the sky (no, I was not under the infulence of mind or plug altering drugs) - there was some noise afterwards but from 7 miles or so away I wasn't certain if it was from the same source....
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10-25-2001, 11:06 AM
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Bass Whacker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NJ
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It was us. We were illuminating the Westerly area in an attempt to keep you guys from finding fish while ruining your night vision.  |
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Originally Posted by Mike P
August 29--a date that lives in striper infamy.  |
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10-25-2001, 11:09 AM
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10-25-2001, 11:19 AM
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Bass Whacker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NJ
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LOL.
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Originally Posted by Mike P
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10-25-2001, 11:57 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Western ny
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hmm..
sounds like a blown transformer...we get those out here all the time. Who knows??
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10-25-2001, 12:04 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Yup---sounds like some sort of electrical explosion. I think Westerly State Airport has some sort of instrument landing approach to one of their runways and they often have their own generators to prevent a sudden power failure causing a plane on short final from losing the guideslope/localizer beam being transmitted when it's low to the ground.
I did see the Aurora Borealis on a very clear, cold night from watch Hill Light, too. But obviously that wasn't what made a sudden flash and explosion.
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10-25-2001, 12:24 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
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This was just a thick neon blue light rising up a hundred or so feet in the sky - much like a beam - that lasted not even a second - seemed to come from the airport area (again I was several miles away) but everyone where I was fishing saw it too... I was more thinking that there is some kind of gas in the blue lights ringing the airport - the noise may have been from that but not sure - could a been a wader muffled gasseous noise from down the beach a little too.... There was intermittent fog earlier in the evening but that had cleared up by then....
You're correct sir, on some crisp & cold nights in October and November, I've seen the Aurora Borealis from WH, Quonny, Menemsha, & Nantucket....
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10-25-2001, 12:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Western ny
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wow..
You guys are sooo lucky..never seen the aurora myself...
(I did see mount everest though...  ) |
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10-25-2001, 12:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Lindenhurst, NY
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Maybe Kirk got inside the obelisk and made the blue flame come out!
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jaiem@artsnflies.com
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10-26-2001, 06:19 AM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Massachusetts.
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This thread could be allot of fun if, you let your mind run amuck. I will wait on the side’s lines while you folks think it over. This post could easily exceed the “what would you do?’ post. May be even set a new all time star recommendation Record.  |
You are only as good as the person who’s driving the boat! By the way, the Devil drives my boat!
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10-26-2001, 07:21 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Maybe Don ejected the warp core from the eeltank at Weekapaug....
Linesides is trying to encourage the masses here - I could -maybe - think of something better AFTER morning coffee...
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