{"id":21436,"date":"2018-12-17T00:56:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=21436"},"modified":"2019-01-13T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:28:00","slug":"of-comets-and-northern-lights-and-radar-blips-and-a-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/of-comets-and-northern-lights-and-radar-blips-and-a-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Comets And Northern Lights And Radar Blips And A Hum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20292\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spacecoastdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aurora-nasa-taken-by-hansen-meteor-flash-580.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sky is an endless mystery &#8212; because it&#8217;s just that: endless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It grants flashes and shimmerings, affords us the regular positioning of stars and planets, blazes brilliantly with the sun, which sometimes pulses strangely, or sets deeply at night, away from artificial light, and often bears surprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the <em>top<\/em>\u00a0we see how active and different the same parcel of sky can be, as in 2009, when, noted a news item, &#8220;auroras and meteors haunted skies over the island of Kval\u00f8ya, near Trumos\u00f8, Norway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shimmers. Flashes of light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Such is life on earth and above the earth: mysteries wrapped in ambiguities (or as the saying goes, &#8220;conundrums&#8221;). There were the signs in the sky throughout the Old Testament. In the New, there was the star of Bethlehem. Often the sky is vague, nubilous. One great clarity: the Infant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sometimes, lights in the sky<\/span> &#8212; closer to earth, luminosities in the atmosphere &#8212; are said to serve as the presage for earthquakes: the culmination of terrestrial electrical charge. Even without the supernatural element (which often seems to underlie terrestrial phenomena), earth and its surroundings offer us much to ponder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/640\/320\/1862\/1048\/f0708331-5302-4624-933c-8f0f7e119ad6-Image-1.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"The source of a mysterious blip that appeared in radar is still unknown.\" width=\"277\" height=\"156\" \/>Last week, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/jon-webb\/2018\/12\/11\/source-mysterious-radar-blip-over-illinois-kentucky-still-mystery\/2280916002\/\">mysterious\u00a0blips<\/a><\/span> appeared across radar in southern Illinois and western Kentucky. They may have come from military aircraft, though nearby Air Force bases say they had nothing to do with it.\u00a0Said a report: &#8220;The storm-like blips left the National Weather Service in a state of confusion since it wasn\u2019t raining in the region.&#8221;\u00a0Social media users speculated the culprit may have been debris from passing meteors or even a flock of birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4778439526MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One viewer,\u00a0Victor Negron, says: &#8220;Having read the story about the mysterious blips that showed up on radar in the Kentucky\/Illinois area, I wondered whether they were actually disturbances that radar picked up as a result of pre-earthquake activity. Recall that the New Madrid Fault Line is right under the area where the blips were noted. I\u2019m neither an earthquake expert, nor a radar expert, but wonder whether that, the change in the uncharted Arctic, and the near-pass comet that is approaching earth are interrelated?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/altondailynews.com\/shared\/inc\/client\/17\/articles\/images\/7071154734-earthquake%20seismograph.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"136\" \/>It is interesting (and perhaps only interesting) that the greatest recorded quakes in the &#8220;lower 48&#8221; were along the New Madrid fault line. Many geological actions taking place, including indications, in Italy, that Mount Vesuvius may one day soon be in for another historic eruption.\u00a0(As for the comet, it is now past.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The 4.4 magnitude quake<\/span> was also felt<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/altondailynews.com\/news\/details.cfm?clientid=17&amp;id=276306#.XBeNVFx05dg\"> in Tennessee<\/a><\/span> and as another newspaper put it, &#8220;had some in the region wondering what the chances are of a big one hitting the St. Louis area or Southern Illinois. Any time an earthquake large enough to be felt happens, stories of a series of quakes in 1812 on the New Madrid fault are told, especially since that area of Tennessee rarely experiences tremors.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Confluences occur as a result of the simple workings of nature &#8212; as well as arriving as signs. T<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">here are the mysteries right here on the surface.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a part of Chicago, also last week, residents reported an inexplicable &#8220;hum.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mysterious &#8212; or simply a massive air circulation unit on a building\u2019s third-floor garage?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also right here on <em>terra firma<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In California an image that Catholic passersby near Holy Family Church in Artesia took to be Mary of Guadalupe appeared on the feast day of Guadalupe.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That timing &#8212; that confluence &#8212; argued, to some (including us), for authenticity: It was spotted by those Catholics right after attending a Mass commemorating the Mexican apparition. You can decide for yourself. The &#8220;image&#8221; is below.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Moreover, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/2018\/12\/14\/faithful-flock-to-pay-tribute-to-effigy-of-virgin-mary-that-appeared-near-artesia-church-on-feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe\/\">noted KTLA TV,<\/a><\/span> &#8220;On the first day, the image was contained within a puddle that never fully evaporated despite bright, sunny weather, [a witness] said.\u00a0(The church provided media with the photographs &#8212; a rarity at a time when such images are usually seen by too many as points of jocularity.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Said the news station: &#8220;The puddle remained the second day, then on Friday the water disappeared and the likeness became more pronounced, according to the pastor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Is it yet another case of what we can&#8217;t see inflecting itself upon what we can?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One day, perhaps soon, it will be clear to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tribktla.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/48360178_1946695285447020_3649622982030000128_o.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[resources: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/category-s\/1817.htm\">books on prophecy<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"commentary\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1545008178\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Of Comets And Northern Lights And Radar Blips And A Hum\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky is an endless mystery &#8212; because it&#8217;s just that: endless. 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