My brother and I were just staring at it for 30 minutes while smoking a J. It's a light that appears perfectly straight and like it is moving extremely slowly, you can only notice over ten minutes or more. It's really strange, my guess is that it's a meteorite. An old guy in the neighborhood was walking his dog and he thought it was weird too.

EDIT: At first the line appeared to be smaller, but I went out later ant it now covers almost the whole sky. I got some pictures of it at 30 second exposure.

This is the camera zoomed out


To the right of it you can see a bright dot, I saw it pulsating and moving in a strange way.


The camera zoomed a bit on the object


The camera at full zoom (300x)

The green line seems to have a astrological like quality, according to some searches.
I also read theories of it being a bolide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid#Bolide

Short YouTube video also captures what appears to be meteor emitting green streaks.
http://www.youtube.com/w...wn0&feature=related

This is what interested me the most, I love essays like this.
It's highly mathematical though, you can skip over the equations and
pretty much understand what they're talking about.
http://www.chm.colostate.edu/nel/GreenLight.pdf

Not to bother you with a bunch of links, Fangor. I just have an
appetite for the weird. Lol.

Thanks, that link looks interesting! I'll have to read it when it's not 2am. I read about bolides earlier although none of the pictures looked like this thing

You weren't kidding, that is one straight line. The only thing that comes
to mind is concentrated electromagnetic radiation (laser beam) of some sort.
Occam's razor would also take this position in light of the photographs.
Nice snapshots, Fangor. Interesting topic.

Green lasers are often used for star gazing because the entire beam is visible, letting the wielder indicate specific points in the sky.
The line looks like this. Laz

I called the university observatory nearby and they said the green line was a LIDAR laser on the telescope. They must have been using it to look at the glowing thing (planet?)

Maybe you saw this :

http://spaceweather.com/

scroll down to spooky communication
quantum cryptography experiment

looks like adaptive optics laser from the observatory. the beam is shot out to see how atmospheric conditions bend and distort the light allowing computers to adjust the incoming information more clearly to provide higher resolution imaging.

pretty cool that you saw this ive never seen one in person.