Roofus was a monitoring station that
provided valuable night
photography for the project. It is
no longer in operation.
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Curtain of Light
Jan. 1, 2007 shortly before dawn Roofus
photographed a rare Marfa Light's phenomenon I call "Curtain of Light"
shown below in three images. The light curtain can be seen near
the right edge of the screen above a bird in the tree. Duration of
the event was at least 4 seconds eliminating clouds, lightning and sprites as
possible sources. These images are black and white but had you
been present to witness the event you would have seen a colorful
display. Such displays have been reported by several observers. The nature of this display provides yet another clue
reinforcing a new evolving theory regarding the true nature of Marfa
Lights. More about that in the future.
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Roofus enabled the first ever collection of
statistical data revealing ML behavior. Below are sample photographs from
2005 including electric MLs, Lightning, Sprites and even a giant jet (Giant jets
are an extremely rare type of lightning phenomenon. The giant jet event
shown at the bottom of this page is the only one ever photographed over North
America. It was successfully photographed by both Roofus and Snoopy).
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The above Halo ML occurred during an intense
electrical storm and is probably the most unusual ever
photographed by my monitoring stations. Rio
Grande Electric power was off line at this time because of an intense
electrical storm. A detailed Roofus-Snoopy triangulation study of
this event has shown the ML was located 8.32 statue miles from Roofus
(further than originally thought). The halo was almost a mile
across (5215 ft) at ground level. The right edge of the halo is
closer to Roofus (7.78 miles) and the left edge is further away (8.62
miles) resulting in a halo width of 2552 ft as viewed from Roofus.
Height of the halo is now estimated to have been 2452 feet. This
halo ML lasted about 8 minutes.
Approximately half an hour after the
above halo event a second intense ML appeared in the same general
direction but 15 miles from Roofus. This second large ML was
possibly the most intense ever observed. The picture below shows
this ML lighting up the overhead cloud bank. It lasted
approximately three hours.
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This ML was so intense that it attracted
attention of three military aircraft that came out to take a look.
They arrived after the ML had gone out but swooped down over where it
had been located and were photographed by both Roofus and Snoopy.
Below is a sample sequence of a couple of the aircraft diving down to
fly over the location where the above ML had been located.
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More of the related storm is
shown below:
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Lightning and ML !
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ML plus Lightning overhead
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A classic sprite from five nights later.
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And another on May 13th.
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Typical Meteor. Meteors are
frequent.
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This rare photograph is of a giant jet
located over northern Mexico approximately south of Del Rio, Texas on
May 12, 2005. To our surprise this turned out to be the only time
a giant jet has ever been photographed over the North American
continent. It was located
further north of the equator than any previously observed.
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