♥~ 1719 – The first display of the northern lights was recorded in America. The sighting was made in New England. The report said that a mysterious face seemed to appear in the atmosphere; The simplest explanation for the green, red, and frost-white northern lights is that, just as the gas in a neon light glows when charged with electricity, so the gas in the atmosphere glows with specific colors when charged with electric particles from the sun. For a more technical explantation, see Mankind’s Explanation: Aurora Borealis or Aurora Season Begins. As far as we know, there is still no technical explanation for the off-season display.