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In addition to the Northern Lights, many other signs in the heavens were observed in the European skies late last year. On 1 November 2023, at 6.20pm, a strange light, “a blue shiny globe” and mysterious explosive noises were seen and heard over Durmersheim, Germany. The witness said she had first seen the light in the sky, and after that, little blue lights in her garden. “All was lit up for two or three seconds. It really frightened me. It looked like a scene from the movie Armageddon. We looked the next morning, but found no traces.” Normally, such phenomena can be explained as bolides – but no meteor had been registered by the German tracking network, and police had received no further reports; and the blue lights in the garden remain unidentified. bnn.de, 7 Nov 2023.

On 21 December 2023, at about 8pm, Hennef, Germany, where I live, experienced the rather violent Storm Zoltan. My wife looked out of the living room window to the south (I was looking the other way) when she saw

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