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I was in bed, awake, looking eastward out a window. Suddenly that window, and all the windows in the room were filled with a brilliant white light. The light filled the windows for 3-4 seconds then just went out, as if turned off by a switch. My first thought was someone had turned a floodlight onto the front of the house. I did not bother to check the time because I was worried about the light source, thinking it came from right outside the house. Then, after perhaps a minute, maybe longer, I observed a second flash of the same intensity and color but it lasted only a second, definitely of shorter duration than the first flash. I got out of bed, walked around the house, peered out windows seeking a source of the lights, then went back to bed. The search and my lying in bed consumed several minutes, maybe as much as five. I was preoccupied with the source of the light, not when it appeared. The I heard a horrific boom. The boom shook the house. The windows rattled. The house is a substantial steel girded, cement block, modern home with huge windows. My first reaction to the boom was a feeling of again being in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake which partially destroyed my home in Los Angles, and which occurred at roughly the same time, and I had also been in bed when the earthquake struck.
This Arizona boom woke my partner, and we immediately began checking the house and looking out windows. At first we thought lightning might have struck the house or nearby; but there were no clouds in the sky, and there had been no flash associated with the boom. I related the earlier flashes to my partner; yet, it was hard for us to connect the flashes with the boom because of the rather long delay between them. All the elevations and times I gave in the prior segments are estimates. I thought it might benefit you if you learned about the sequences of two flashes and then the boom I experienced. |
