A super bright fireball lit up the sky as it roared through the atmosphere over Scotland on Monday night.
As the band played on and the crowd of 5,000 cheered, it rose into the sky, the roar of its engines drowning out the gun salutes from four yacht clubs and the whistles from the craft in the harbor.
Shake the sky and roar through the land.
The sky turned black, thunder roared, lightning flashed, and a deluge commenced with raindrops the size of pigeon eggs.
"It's not the sun and the sky and a roaring river crashing into rocks" — nature's way of purifying water.
I was more interested in how it functioned for thousands of people, who were surprised by its presence in the sky (and its roar) every day, who could project their personal ideas and dreams of a better future, of technology overcoming time and space on to it.
Drowning the cheers at the mission control, about 7km away, and the nearby media centre, the rocket rose to the sky with a roar, spewing fire and smoke.
It's fairly high above sea level there, in the lower ranges of the Berkshires, and I would stand at the pump in the dark looking at the stars in the cold clear sky as the semis roared past and with the wind in my hair, and I liked to imagine that I was a character in Kerouac's novel, lost to everyone I knew and to everyone who knew me, somewhere in America, on the road.
Every so often, one of Zimbabwe's new Chinese warplanes roared across the sky.
Overhead, Israeli warplanes roared through the sky on their daily training runs along the coast.
At 10 55 a.m., the body of Rizka Samouni emerged as an Israeli fighter jet roared in the sky.
