I saw what I thought were the Northern Lights once in the middle of a 15 hr BA flight from LHR to OSA. No one pointed it out, I just woke up and peeked out the window and thought: "Hmm... that doesn't look much like a cloud formation".
When I saw it, it wasn't brightly coloured, but it was a bit like looking down and across the funnel of a vast tornado, except that there was no circulation, just this shimmering whitish curtain streaking down towards the base of the funnel. I immediately assumed it was the Northern Lights because it appeared to be taking the exact shape of the magnetic field lines as they dive into the magnetic pole.
Has anyone else seen this kind of display? How else does it appear? Was it really the Aurora Borealis that I saw?
Would love to hear more details and descriptions of what people have seen and experienced of it.
[This message has been edited by Covenant (edited 07 March 2001).]