{"id":6707,"date":"2019-04-07T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T07:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2019-04-07T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T07:42:43","slug":"blue-flashers-in-stoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/04\/07\/blue-flashers-in-stoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue flashers in Stoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/news\/stoke-on-trent-news\/mystery-surrounds-strange-flash-electric-2730329\">&#8220;Mystery surrounds &#8216;strange&#8217; flash of electric blue light in skies above Stoke-on-Trent&#8221;<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was a green-turquoise flash. The lights in the house flickered&#8221;.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I noticed that too, a bit further down the valley at Etruria.  Sometimes there&#8217;s the flash of an ambulance going past on the distant road, but it wasn&#8217;t like that, it was higher in the sky and more diffuse, a different colour, and not with such a regular pulse.<\/p>\n<p>There was a possibly related phenomenon in 1896&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Earthquake of December 1896&#8221;: the <em>North Staffordshire Naturalists&#8217; Field Club, Annual Report and Transactions<\/em>, 1897 offered a collation of reports from all around the district of the &#8220;earth-wave&#8221;. &#8220;Dr. McAldowie estimated that about two-thirds of the adult inhabitants of Stoke were roused [in their beds] by the shock.&#8221; Also reports of atmospheric disturbances, flashes of light like lightning. The Revd. G. T. Ryves was investigating the strange local reports of &#8216;lightning&#8217;, but he died before his investigations could be completed. A national report on the &#8220;luminous phenomena&#8221; was published by another researcher in the Meteorological Magazine, and a summary list is given of the observed phenomena noted in the article: at Bridgenorth the &#8220;streets seemed to be on fire&#8221;. A large collation of press notices of the earthquake is given, drawn from further afield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mystery surrounds &#8216;strange&#8217; flash of electric blue light in skies above Stoke-on-Trent&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;It was a green-turquoise flash. The lights in the house flickered&#8221;. Yes, I noticed that too, a bit further down the valley at Etruria. Sometimes there&#8217;s the flash of an ambulance going past on the distant road, but it wasn&#8217;t like that, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}