Audible northern lights

 One time on a clear but moonless night in mid winter my g/f and I were
driving through northern Ontario and we saw glowing, moving shapes
in the northern sky. So we stopped the car, turned off the motor
and got out to see.

This was in an uninhabited wilderness area north of Lake Superior
and there were no other cars anywhere near. The air was still.
Normally in conditions like this there would have been total silence.

The lights looked like a blurry curtain slowly waving. I couldn't
remember if I'd ever seen the Northern Lights before so we stood there
for some time watching. And after a while I thought I heard a faint
sound, sort of a crackling hiss (or a hissing crackle).

Has anyone else on this forum ever *heard* the Aurora? The lights looked
to be many miles away up in the sky. Could that have been an optical
illusion and they were much closer? It's been quite a while but to
the best of my recollection the lights were pale green or
greenish-yellow.

SQ

 

I have never heard them but I have been told they can at times emit an
audible tone/frquency or whatever.

 
I'm an amateur astronomer, and I've heard others tell me that they've
heard them too.

Me, I'm too far south to have ever seen them, much less heard
anything.

http://members.tripod.com/~auroralsounds/

 

I saw them from Ventura county when I was a kid. It was just a red
glowing sky that far south.

 Sean_Q_ wrote:


Sure. I grew up in a pretty remote part of NW Ont, and as kids we used
to lie on our backs on a snowbank at night and watch them. My grandma
was Sami, and she told us that in her language, the word for northern
lights meant "light you could hear". I heard them as a very faint
crackle like bacon frying.