On January 31, 1993, Daddy made the decision that he didn’t want to “be here” anymore. Obviously it was a devastating boss to me and all our family and friends.
I’m sure, because of the trauma, there are many things we may have forgotten during that time. But just now, at 10:22pm October 28, 2026, I remembered that Mother had described a brilliant light moving across the night sky that was unlike anything she had ever seen before. It was on the night of Daddy’s passing.
So, of course, out of curiosity, I looked it up just now. Google says that, on the night Daddy left us, there was a light in the sky that was one of the brightest gamma-ray radiation ever recorded. It went on to say that the human eye cannot see gamma-ray radiation with the naked eye. So that was a little disappointing and, in my mind, a dead end for that possibility.
When I asked Google for more information about what could have happened that night, I learned more information.
There was an astrological event in the skies the night of January 31, 1993. Scientist Dr. Steven Greer and his CSETI* team deployed to the west Atlanta area on that night and on the next day, to investigate the phenomena that came to be called “The Super Bowl Burst” since the Super Bowl happened on January 31 and February 1, 1993.
*CSETI is the acronym for the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
I asked Google what NASA’S response was to these events:
On January 31, 1993, NASA’s instruments on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) detected an extraordinarily intense gamma-ray burst (GRB) known as GRB 930131. Because this major astronomical event occurred on the same day as Super Bowl XXVII, it famously became known within the scientific community as the “Superbowl Burst”. [1]
NASA’s immediate scientific response and ongoing handling of this milestone data included:
- Detection via BATSE: The burst was caught at 18:57:12 UT by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) onboard the CGRO. It was recorded as arguably the brightest gamma-ray burst the observatory had ever observed up to that point, reaching a massive peak flux of roughly 100 photons s⁻¹ cm⁻². [1]
- Interplanetary Network (IPN) Coordination: Following the detection on January 31 and into February 1, NASA utilized data sharing across the Interplanetary Network. This network collaborated with other spacecraft to narrow down the precise location of the rapid-fire burst in the night sky.
- Follow-up Imaging: The extreme brightness of the Superbowl Burst provided NASA and the broader astrophysical community with crucial data to study the rapid physics of cosmic explosions, shaping gamma-ray burst research throughout the 1990s.
From all the other information gathered, I could probably reasonably assume that these scientists would want to get an account from anyone who remember and specifics of what they’d seen.
