My father claims to have witnessed aurora in Alabama as a kid, I'm guessing sometime in the 1950s. I was thinking this wasn't all that rural of an area either,

My father claims to have witnessed aurora in Alabama as a kid, I'm guessing sometime in the 1950s. I was thinking this wasn't all that rural of an area either, although light pollution was arguably less than today. I myself saw it in North-central Ohio in 1999.