I'm in northern UT. It was gently visible with the naked eye but outrageously colorful and intense when photographed with 4-5 second exposures. However, when I looked through my NVGs, it was underwhelming. I have a set of fairly high spec Elbit tubes (2800 FOM). It just looked like dirty streaks on the lenses.
That being said, I've seen some videos people have put online today which they captured through their own NVGs and their videos look much better than my own experience of only looking with my eyeballs through my NVGs. I did not attempt to record through them. I wonder if there's a similar pattern here where the effects are magnified when being captured on a digital sensor.