Bright orange light in the sky

[sjwilliams 10]

Both me and my husband witnessed a very strange phenomenon at about 1 am today

Stood outside when we saw a very bright orange glow in the sky, that bright I squinted. It looked like a sunrise speeded up. I tried to take a pic but caught the after glow as it disappeared. Just wondering if anyone else saw this

[drummer54as 10]

which area of sheffield? Sure it wasn't a lantern?

[sjwilliams 10]

In handsworth and no it was too big an area to be just a lantern

[martss 10]

Was the glow low in the sky and were you looking towards Meadowhall?

[820vitesse 10]

Outokumpu furnace at a guess.

[Dannyno 19]

In handsworth and no it was too big an area to be just a lantern

 

Be careful about being so confident, your eyes can deceive you - it's very easy to misjudge distance and height - and also you don't necessarily know the effect of conditions on the way light behaves.

 

(I don't know what it was)

[gremlin_mick 10]

Theres a thread on here somewhere about these lights.

 

It's from the steelworks out Rotherham way. We see them regularly from Darnall.

 

Here we go: http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1281535&highlight=orange+light

Edited November 12, 2014 by gremlin_mick

[martss 10]

Outokumpu furnace at a guess.

 

That's what I was going to suggest, when they empty the slag pots.

Edited November 12, 2014 by martss
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[sjwilliams 10]

I can't say for certain but I have been talking to a few people and they say it could be a solar flare. I have to say it was far too big in the sky to be any of the above and for how it disappeared as quickly as it appeared.

[martss 10]

What direction were you looking, roughly?

[cookingfat50 10]

Both me and my husband witnessed a very strange phenomenon at about 1 am today

Stood outside when we saw a very bright orange glow in the sky, that bright I squinted. It looked like a sunrise speeded up. I tried to take a pic but caught the after glow as it disappeared. Just wondering if anyone else saw this

 

It might have been that woodhouse was on fire take a bucket and give them a bHand lol

[Blast 10]

If it's in the general Meadowhall direction looking from Handsworth it will probably be the steelworks adjacent to the old airport site.

 

They usually melt at night when electricity charges are cheaper.

 

It tends to be quite visible when the cloud base is lower - sort of 'reflects' off it and you can see the orange glow get brighter then subside over a period of a few seconds.