Unknown high altitude ionization, etc?
Taken by Private on December 21, 2021 @
Harrisburg PA
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Apologies for poor photo quality. I am not sure what this is but on the morning of 21 December over Harrisburg PA at an altitude of 31000 feet heading east at 6:22am Eastern (11:22 UTC) I snapped this pic with a digital camera. As the camera quality is not optimized for night use it’s not great quality. It does not capture the brilliant whitish green glow. The phenomena started about 10 minutes prior to the photo as a thin line that I suspected was the distant sunrise. We actually were flying above a layer of stratus clouds that we ended up descending through later, into our destination. At about 20,000 feet we then saw a brilliant red sunrise to the east. This really highlighted the fact that this green white phenomena was not specifically the visual sunrise event we later saw. I would suspect this to be an aurora but it’s dead east vs northerly as I would normally see. Any thoughts about noctilicent clouds?
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