What is the most amamzing thing you have seen in the sky?

I would go for the Leonid storm of 2002. so amazing!
Most of the show was bloked for me fog and clouds but, a big but at 4am, the clouds broke, and I saw the most amazng thing I have ever seen in my life. there was not one spot in the sky not filed with shooting stars, full on metor storm.

I've seen some absolutely incredible lightning storms (I love to watch storms from the comfort of my sunprorch!) I remember watching the PERSEIDS meteor showers, every summer, as a child at our cottage in northern Michigan. We'd have a campfire, and everyone would spread blankets on the ground, and we'd watch the display until the wee hours of the morning.

Originally Posted by Trillcat

I would go for the Leonid storm of 2002. so amazing!
Most of the show was bloked for me fog and clouds but, a big but at 4am, the clouds broke, and I saw the most amazng thing I have ever seen in my life. there was not one spot in the sky not filed with shooting stars, full on metor storm.

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I recall sitting outside in a reclining lawn chair watching the Leonid's one year, and I think it was about 2002. There were meteors that left smoke trails from one horizon to the other that night. That was an awesome storm and I'd have to vote for this also!!

I love meteor showers but usually there are too many lights around to see them, or it's just too late at the peak to stay awake.

I remember when Hally Bop comet was around in the late 1990 (1996 or 1997 I think). That was incredible!! To me, it was magical! That has to be the most amazing thing.

I would LOVE to see the northern lights though.

Just.....stars. I can never see stars in NYC, because there are so many lights. So the first time a group of us went to Playa del Carmen (south of Cancun) and we were walking home from a restaurant, the sky was almost bright with all the stars. It was amazing. So many stars. Really, really beautiful.

The aurora borealis (Canada) and the Southern Cross (Australia).

When I lived in the northern part of my Province the Northern Lights displays were breathtaking! We get Northern Lights in the southern part of The Province too, but I can't see them inside The City, but the displays are not as bright or as large down here as they are up north.

Here is a google search of some fabulous displays. The ones I've seen are just as spectacular!

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this is going to sound odd but the most amazing thing I saw wasn't natural even though I have seen amazing lightning, meteor, stars...etc.

What was amazing was...I was driving out to Indiana a few years back in the summer and my DH was asleep in the car. It was just me in the morning light and it was an amazingly beautiful day. But it was also lonely since I had been driving for around ten hours (waiting for DH to wake up) and there was no radio, no rest stops no other cars NOTHING for as far as the eye can see...when I looked up and in the distance was the most colorfull and bright hot air balloon just floating in the sky. For some reason it just was the most amazing thing partly because I never seen one in person before let alone seen one in the sky. It was great it was too bad that my DH slept through it!

Originally Posted by vampcow

this is going to sound odd but the most amazing thing I saw wasn't natural even though I have seen amazing lightning, meteor, stars...etc.

What was amazing was...I was driving out to Indiana a few years back in the summer and my DH was asleep in the car. It was just me in the morning light and it was an amazingly beautiful day. But it was also lonely since I had been driving for around ten hours (waiting for DH to wake up) and there was no radio, no rest stops no other cars NOTHING for as far as the eye can see...when I looked up and in the distance was the most colorfull and bright hot air balloon just floating in the sky. For some reason it just was the most amazing thing partly because I never seen one in person before let alone seen one in the sky. It was great it was too bad that my DH slept through it!

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That just made me smile!

There was a large blimp floating over our town one day a few years ago. Very strange. 1) I've never seen a passenger blimp before and 2) why the heck would anyone want to float over a rural western Oklahoma town that has absolutely nothing of interest?

I've also seen a meteorite or space junk that flew over quite close. I could hear it crackle, it was large, and the flame on it was white-ish green.

The weirdest was when I was 8, I saw two odd objects in the western sky just before the sun completely set. One stayed stationary and the other yo-yo-ed down from it and back up several times at a rather fast speed. Through binoculars the objects were very obviously metallic - the smaller one looked roundish and the other larger one looked more oblong. Several of my family members witnessed it as well since I yelled at them to come look.

I remember seeing a meteor shower that was like watching fireworks in the sky one cold deep snowy night here in Ohio. I have seen others during warm weather but none compared to that one. i think it was in 95 or 96.

I remember the year of haileys comet was the year i bought a telescope.. I love my scope!! amazing things to see..

Then there was the year the northern lights appeared. at first i saw red across the horizon only the sun had already set then it like came closer and started twirlling with green... it was as if it was a giant cloud moving across ground level and I reached out and touched it.. so cool that night in the fall 2001..

I love the hot air balloons too.... we live in hot air balloon alley

Personally? Well, a Blue Angels performance has got to be right up there...

The annual meteor showers can really be amazing. I've never seen a really heavy one, but I've heard of the Leonids being so bright you could read by their light.

I missed the Leonid meteor shower, but I was able to see some of the Geminid meteor shower in 1999 as a truck driver.

As a young teenager my family along with some othe relatives were traveling from West Palm Beach to Orlando (headed to Disney) when I looked out the window of the station wagon and saw two F4 Phantoms streaking above the flat ground at no more than a few hundred feet off the deck. I thought that was really neat.

Prior to us deploying for Desert Shield, the aviation brigade of the 1st Infantry Divison made two slow circles around Fort Riley before heading off for deployment. The flight of UH-60 Blackhawks, OH-58 Kiowas, CH-47 Chinooks, and AH-64 Apaches were led in formation by a Mil Mi-24 "Hind", which is a Russian (formerly Soviet) attack helicopter. We were down in the motorpool when they flew overhead. Everyone stopped what they were doing to watch.