aurora borealis while flying up from Las Vegas to Calgary around 9 p.m. Thursday.“The aurora was so strong we started seeing it as far south as Idaho Falls!
Incredible!” he told Global News.“Progressively got better and better and better the closer I got to Calgary. It was dancing straight overhead out all the windows of the airplane, it was pretty amazing.”He then saw more lights a few hours later, when he was flying from Calgary to Abbotsford, B.C., around midnight.The 20-year pilot and photographer said it’s been years since he took in a sight as vivid as this.
He said it never gets old and he feels lucky to see it from cruising altitude.“Probably the best display I’ve seen in a very long time from the aircraft.”From B.C.
to southern Ontario, people reported seeing the aurora borealis, after a “severe” geomagnetic storm made the northern lights visible quite far south.