For decades, the idea of the aurora making a sound was dismissed as superstition or illusion, but perhaps the Northern Lights do make noise.
The Northern Lights have delighted people as a stunning sight for years – but do they make a sound? Alison Andrews, 70, recalls her great-aunt telling her about walking home over the hills after a dance as a young woman, deep in the Cotswolds with no light pollution. ‘She heard a fizzing, buzzing sound, and then the sky lit up all around her,’ she told Metro. Immediately fascinated by the Northern Lights , 60 years later Alison finally experienced them herself from her home in Gloucestershire.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page Dawn posted on Facebook the day after seeing the lights in May, saying she could have heard them too After his team recorded whistling and crackling in the night sky from the village of Fiskar in Finland, they concluded that ‘auroral sounds are produced with a separate process from the auroral light production.
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