NUFORC Sighting 106214

Occurred: 2014-01-10 20:00 Local
Reported: 2014-01-12 07:34 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Yuma, AZ, USA

Shape: Unknown

glowing streak of blue cloud passes quickly over the area in Yuma, AZ

At approximately 9:00pm on Friday night, I was sitting outside on my back porch when I looked up and saw an odd bluish bank of cloud approaching from the western horizon. What made me notice it was the color - a bright, glowing aqua blue. There was no wind or any breeze, yet it moved quickly across the sky, and in less than a minute it was overhead. I had a tablet computer with me and by the time I snapped a picture of the mass, it was already past my house and heading east. It was not the moon or city lights that caused the bright glow. The glow was gone within two minutes. I've been looking for reports of Aurora Borealis sightings in southern Arizona, but so far none have come up. I'm hoping that someone else in AZ saw this and got better pictures. It resembled Aurora Borealis to some extent but had a misty, amorphous quality to it. It moved away too quickly to be a solar flare, in my opinion.

Posted 2014-01-16