TWAN Mystery October 2010: Dark Bands in the Sky

18 October 2010

What are the dark vertical bands on the right side of this recent aurora image from northern Canada? Are they black aurora or an atmospheric phenomenon? http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/mystery.asp

 
Each month The World at Night (TWAN) publishes a photo with a mystery. Share your thoughts with TWAN and its global viewers. While some of the photos display a real mystery of unidentified objects or phenomena, some others are already solved by TWAN team and appear on this page for educational purposes. TWAN post the explanation or the final conclusion at the month’s end. This program is a collaboration with Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) international project.

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