Rare "White Auroras" spotted over Norway.🤩

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Rare “White Auroras” spotted over Norway.🤩

Rare “White Auroras” spotted over Norway.🤩

— omgisme (@omgisme.bsky.social) 2026-06-08T19:10:47.397Z

[2naSalit]

1. Wow!

Thanks for posting!

[Srkdqltr]

2. Beautiful

[CrispyQ]

3. Gorgeous! Like layers of tulle.

[Ocelot II]

4. AI-generated, not real. Check the comments.

https://www.rumorguard.org/post/video-of-white-auroras-over-norway-is-ai

[zanana1]

5. How incredibly cool.

[Fla Dem]

6. The Universe never fails to amaze us little humans.

[Ocelot II]

7. It didn't this time. This was AI-generated.

[Fla Dem]

8. I HATE AI!!!!!!!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Gorgeous.

[Ocelot II]

10. Please delete this post - the white aurora is an AI hoax.

It's been kicking around the Internet for years, not AI at first (made with fluorescent lights), but more recently enhanced. "The images were created by a person in Russia with the username “NeverSmile.” He posted them (and 9 more) at https://www.yaplakal.com on July 16, 2010. ...There are no white auroras. What you are seeing is not actually white but most likely a pale green. To quote Dr. Tony Phillips at SpaceWeather, “Auroras get their colors from specific elements in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Green auroras, for instance, come from atomic oxygen; blue is associated with molecular nitrogen. No element produces white.”"
https://explorenorthblog.com/the-white-aurora-the-internets-most-successful-aurora-hoax/

Just to be sure, I checked the major Norwegian news outlets, Aftenposten, Verdens Gang, and NRK. No mention of white auroras, which would have been a very big deal if it had happened. Here's a nice, normal, green one, though. https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/QMp2dW/kraftig-solstorm-kan-gi-spektakulaert-nordlys-over-hele-norge