NASA and European satellites and ground-based telescopes around the
world detected the giant flare on 27 December 2004. Scientists from
twenty institutes joined the observations. Two science teams, one of
them from Southampton, report about this unprecedented event in a
forthcoming issue of Nature.

http://www.soton.ac.uk/Press/PressReleases/Name,5379,en.php

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Scientists have detected a flash of light from across the Galaxy
so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's
upper atmosphere. The flash was brighter than anything ever
detected from beyond our Solar System and lasted over a tenth of
a second.
NASA and European satellites and many radio telescopes detected
the flash and its aftermath on December 27, 2004. 

Vol 9 No 2 - 25 February 2005
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/news/news.html

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"Perceptions" note:

OK it's a "told u so" - check the analysis and forecasts at

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/jets.html#data

We did warn mainstream scientists of these effects some
years ago - but they were in denial at the time.
  
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