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Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Air traffic control and pilots near Atlanta observed an unexpected fireworks display on August 18th.
  • An unidentified pilot humorously claimed the fireworks were for their 10-year divorce anniversary, also explaining where their money went.
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…Overheard one evening in August just west of ATL:

Tower: (To aircraft doing touch and goes alone in the pattern) …You watching the fireworks just north of here?

Piper1234: Yup … what’s the holiday on August 18th that includes fireworks?

Tower: No clue.

Unidentified: Well, I know what it is. Ten year aniversary of my diviorce.
(pause)
…And now I know where the money has gone.

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