Case · UFO Afrinews No 8, Sept. 1993
Colorado curtain of fire (Corliss comparison)
1930 ยท Colorado, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Quoted by Hind from William Corliss's sourcebook as a parallel to the Namibian wall of flame. Shortly after midnight, somewhere in Colorado around 1930, observers saw a curtain of fire rise from the crest of a long east-west mountain to the south, several miles long and reaching straight up from the ground to a very great height. It seemed made of threads of fire climbing rapidly which, at the top, turned sharply at right angles and streamed westward. The contemporary conclusion was that the curtain had reached the top of the atmosphere and that the westward flow showed the earth dragging a comet-like tail through a gas-filled outer void. Corliss suggests a mountain-top glow or low-level aurora; Hind wonders about igniting methane.
What Hind made of it
Cited as a possible parallel to the Namib wall of flame; Hind speculates about methane igniting on contact with air but says why it should happen remains a mystery.
Explanation offered
Mountain-top glow or low-level aurora (Corliss); methane eruption (Hind)
In their words
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a curtain of fire several miles long and from the ground straight upwards to a very great height
Cross references
- Case No 68 The Wall of Flame
- William Corliss sourcebook p.23