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   From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In misc.news.internet.discuss, Retrograde   wrote:   
   > The one fact you'd be interested to know - what time the flash happened   
   > - is absent in the article.  How did it go undetected? That's a big   
   > one, must have been super interesting.  What else do we miss when we   
   > are sleeping?  Sasquatch pissing on the network center?   
      
   It happened during a majar thunderstorm. From below it probably just   
   looks like a few close by lightning strikes and only from above can one   
   see the full extent.   
      
   I downloaded the PDF from here:   
      
   https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-25-00   
   7.1/BAMS-D-25-0037.1.xml   
      
   And that gives the time:   
      
      The present-day reanalysis focused on an exceptionally long megaflash   
      within this QLCS initiated at 08:56:45.834 UTC on 22 October 2017.   
      
   I think eastern Texas is Central Time, and I think it would have still   
   been summer (daylight savings) time on that date. So that would be   
   UTC-5, about 4am in the morning. Probably not too many people observing   
   locally.   
      
   Elijah   
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