The Purple Fire Snowstorm of 1853 – 20 Minutes of Terror Downeast — “A snowstorm raged for a full day in Downeast Maine on March 13, 1853, when at sundown the winds suddenly grew calm. The snow continued falling steadily…people of Bar Harbor remarked at the stillness…It was not…a good sign.”

– “The Purple Fire Snowstorm of 1853 – 20 Minutes of Terror Downeast” “A gale was raging for a full day in Downeast Maine on March 13, 1853 when at sundown the winds suddenly grew calm. The snow continued falling steadily, gently down, and the people of Bar Harbor remarked at the stillness as the night sky darkened. It was not, it turned out, a good sign. It was the start of the purple fire snowstorm of 1853.”: https://web.archive.org/web/20150315102954/newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-purple-fire-snowstorm-of-1853-20-minutes-of-terror-downeast/ ; https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-purple-fire-snowstorm-of-1853-20-minutes-of-terror-downeast/ (“The Purple Fire Snowstorm of 1853 – 20 Minutes of Terror Downeast” “A snowstorm raged for a full day in Downeast Maine on March 13, 1853, when at sundown the winds suddenly grew calm. The snow continued falling steadily, gently down, and the people of Bar Harbor remarked at the stillness as the night sky darkened. It was not, it turned out, a good sign. It was the start of the purple fire snowstorm of 1853.”)

– “SNOW AND THUNDER.; RECALLING A SINGULAR STORM WHICH STARTLED PEOPLE 31 YEARS AGO.” “September 28, 1884, Page 4”, column 6 : https://www.nytimes.com/1884/09/28/archives/snow-and-thunder-recalling-a-singular-storm-which-startled-people.html , https://archive.org/download/sim_new-york-times_1884-09-28_33_10317/sim_new-york-times_1884-09-28_33_10317.pdf (page 4, column 6, “SNOW AND THUNDER.” “RECALLING A SINGULAR STORM WHICH STARTLED PEOPLE 31 YEARS AGO.”) from https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1884-09-28_33_10317

– “Remarkable Storm of Ball Lightning in Mt. Desert, Maine” (page 155) in “Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book” by Christopher C. Burt: https://books.google.com/books?id=NuP7ATq9nWgC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&ots=4P0FZelKfj

– “The Purple Fire Snowstorm Brought Horror to Bar Harbor and MDI” “”Awful and sublime” lightning and fireballs terrorized MDI residents” by Carrie Jones (February 2, 2023): https://barharborstory.substack.com/p/the-purple-fire-snowstorm-brought , https://archive.ph/S3y2p , https://archive.is/S3y2p

– “SINGULAR PHENOMENON.–A severe snow storm, accompanied by lighting, occurred in a part of Maine on the 13th ult. A correspondent of the Gardiner (Me.) Fountain, writing from Bass Harbor, Mt. Desert, describes the storm as it appeared there as awful and sublime. A thunder cloud passed over the place, which for terrific appearance, exceeded anything ever witnessed there.” “March 15, 1853, Page 3”: https://www.nytimes.com/1853/03/15/archives/singular-phenomenona-severe-snow-storm-accompanied-by-lighting.html

 

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* NUFORC UFO Sighting 88691, “Location: Hiko, NV, USA”, “On April 26, 2007 at 11:55 a.m., my husband and I were traveling south in our 18-wheeler through the Nevada desert when a series of dramatic events took place! We felt a “concussion” of some sort and everything became brighter. . . .”: https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=88691 , https://archive.ph/tJg7A , https://archive.is/tJg7A