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My first aurora experience was in my back yard in Auckland, NZ. I think I was only about 12 years old but was astronomy obsessed at the time, so I knew exactly what I was looking at. And sure enough, the aurora got a mention on the news later that night. It was a reddish 'sheet' that appeared to be stationary in the sky.
Then a few years ago I spent a week dog sledding in the Arctic Circle (Finland), and nearly every night there was a dramatic show of lights put on. Apparently they get auroras more than 200 days per year in that part of the world. The ones I saw were green, and appeared stationary, except on the final night when they literally danced across the sky at a frantic pace. I'll never forget that.
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