The 1859 Carrington aurora reports in the Caribbean

Record summary

The Carrington Event produced exceptionally bright aurorae and electrical disturbances, including reports from low and unusual latitudes. Caribbean newspapers and observatories may contain descriptions of red or luminous skies that could later be indexed as anomalous aerial phenomena. This lead matters because it offers a strong conventional analogue for reports of large nocturnal lights in the nineteenth century. Individual Caribbean observations should be verified against contemporary newspapers, observatory records, and geomagnetic histories; not every regional claim in later UFO literature is securely sourced.