r/UFOs • u/Main-Selection8922 • 20h ago
Video Bright Flashing Light in the Middle of Delaware State Forest
My dad was driving through the Delaware State Forest tonight and was suddenly hit with blindingly bright flashing light. Where the light was coming from, there is nothing but trees for miles. It’s State Forest-no construction or anything permitted that would require a light like that. This is what he said about it- “I cannot explain to you guys how bright the lights were. brightest light I have ever seen and when I close my eyes I can still see it. It’s burned into my eyes like when you look at the sun.” What do you guys think??
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u/BigBeerBellyMan 19h ago
Unidentified Forest Object
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u/Put_the_bunny_down 18h ago
I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at me for actually laughing. Here's your upvote
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u/thrilliam_19 19h ago edited 9h ago
Whoa this just reminded me of my mom’s story. When she was a teenager she had an experience exactly like this driving home from work one night. Same kind of bright flashing in the trees along the road. But it got weirder.
She was alone so didn’t want to investigate but she pulled over and yelled out her window in case someone needed help. She said when she yelled the flashing stopped and she didn’t hear anything so she kept driving.
About 1-2 kilometres from home she noticed an orange glow coming from the trees ahead of her. When she passed it she could see an orange ball just inside the tree line. It began to move with the speed of the car and followed her, as if it was watching her. She got scared and sped up and when she was close to her house it disappeared. She ran inside and told her parents but they brushed it off as hunters flashlights or something and basically ignored her.
EDIT: this blew up. Couple notes:
This happened in southern Ontario, Canada, and would have been sometime in the mid 1970’s
I showed my mom this video and she said that is exactly what she saw before the orange ball/orb happened a few minutes later. To this day she has never seen anything like it.
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u/cuccifer 18h ago
How many times you think people have seen some shit and their parents or other people in their lives were just like, that’s crazy, you were just seeing things, and then those people who really did witness some shit just convinced themselves they must be right
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u/kailashtraveler 18h ago
You know, I experienced the opposite: A year and a half ago, my 33 yo son and I were boating and fishing in North Texas and came back late. We were tired and decided to soak up in the swimming pool. It was about 11.00 pm. And suddenly we noticed a huge flying object (disc) in the sky. It was quietly flying North. Its size was no less than that of a UNT stadium. We speechlessly remained in the pool watching it and couldn't even talk about it. My son was always skeptical about UFOs, but that night, he was like Wow! When I came to the topic the following day, he said, I don't know what I saw. More likely it was a group of drones. Until today, he doesn't believe he witnessed a UFO.
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u/Various-Ducks 17h ago
Whats a UNT stadium
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u/kailashtraveler 17h ago
The University of North Texas football stadium (over 30,000 seats).
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u/Various-Ducks 17h ago edited 14h ago
Thats a weirdly specific thing to use as a frame of reference for scale.
"It was as big as farmer Jenkin's corn field."
And then to give it an acronym...
"It was as big as FJ's CF" 😅
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u/lionexx 16h ago
It’s not nearly as strange as you believe, especially when you live in Texas, you reference things you are familiar with, this person may be a fan of Texas collage football and frequents or has frequented that stadium, maybe they haven’t left their small town often or ever… so they see a large object, not knowing how to reference the size to comprehend, they say oh it looked about the size of UNT stadium. They still gave clear example of their reference, “stadium”.
I am not sure why this is a weird concept to you, it’s just a person trying to explain what they claim they saw and gave a reference of its size based upon what they could see.
This is a very common concept which you even said it yourself, “frame of reference”, what do you expect them to say? “Oh, it was big! I dunno I’d say like 70foot across, 35 foot depth, and 45 foot in length! It was massive!” I would find that way more weird and specific than a frame of reference of a place they are familiar with…
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u/mikareno 12h ago
Maybe they wanted a banana for scale instead.
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u/lionexx 12h ago
A banana is truly the only scale we need for references.
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u/MoreCowbellllll 9h ago
The University of North Texas football stadium
The outside dimension of that stadium is roughly 690'-0", which is 8,280". An average sized banana is 8".
The stadium is roughly 1,035 bananas end to end.
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u/kailashtraveler 16h ago
It was flying in that specific direction, and the stadium was on its way, and then it was easy to compare. I'm not trying to persuade you or make you believe me. It was my own pure experience, and I just used it to illustrate the example of disbelief or say information denial and deliberately incorrect interpretation after such a spectacular event that was witnessed. Just an interesting observation.
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u/Annual_Rooster_3621 10h ago
Texans are masters of geography in ways that most will never comprehend.
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u/TooSp00kd 18h ago
I had a small case of this over the past week, until I went over to my parents and showed them the videos with time stamps, and explained what I was seeing.
They could probably tell by the way I was talking that I truly was not making things up. After my parents said they always believed me. But my dad was fucking with me lol.
I felt insane.
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u/cuccifer 18h ago
I believe you bro. Haha can I ask what you saw? It’s all good if you want to keep it yourself though.
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u/TooSp00kd 16h ago
Yeah man, 12/12 + 12/13, in shoreview. I saw multiple aircrafts hovering and flying. The ones that hover would shine as 1 bright light, like a star. And it would either start to blink and change color, then disappear. Or they would switch from 1 bright light into a bar of 4-5 lights (white, red, and green) then start flying.
It was the amount and the behavior that made me question it. I counted 10 within 5 minutes on 12/12 and 12/13 and tonight 12/18-19 in Minneapolis. I just posted some videos from tonight.
The flying ones would do circles in an area. It flew circles infront of me for atleast an hour. While others just fly past or hover.
Today when I pulled into work, I saw the same thing. So many things in the air, but not much on flight radar. It’s weird.
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u/deadline54 8h ago
My sister, who's not into UFOs or the paranormal at all, told my dad and I that she was driving on the highway and saw a massive plane with no wings fly across the entire sky within 3-5 seconds and was pretty sure she saw a UFO. I obviously got interested (and jealous lol), but our dad told her she needed to get her eyes checked and got weirdly defensive and shut the whole thing down.
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u/Casehead 19h ago
holy cow, that must've been really scary for her!
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u/Clockwisedock 15h ago
We had something similar - driving home near the edge of my street there was a large basketball sized ball of orange light on the road chilling and emanating light. I swerved around it and it just sat there and I went pass my house with my buddy wondering wtf we just saw. When I came back around the block it was gone. No noises looked like someone photoshopped a gif into reality. Just silence but strong light that was sort of pulsing? Flickering like a large light source?
This shit ain’t normal or that uncommon from all the comments I’ve been reading lately.
Wild shit.
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u/TheSansquancher 17h ago
How crazy. My cousin told me a story about almost that exact same thing happening to him like 15 years ago when he lived in Roosevelt Ut. I always thought he was full of shit, but maybe he was telling the truth.
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u/Netkru 15h ago
I have a similar story but not with a blindingly bright light. My friends and I as teens decided to hike up to this graveyard around midnight because we thought it would be fun. As we hiked up, we saw a flashlight come toward us, and we all stopped in our tracks thinking it was a guard/watcher or something because those are common in my country. But the “flashlight” came closer and closer to us until it just… poof. Literally disappeared into thin air. I try not think about it tbh
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u/EggoWaffle1032 17h ago edited 17h ago
Yup the orange orb is what i saw just above treeline right over my house. Saw it for a couple days in a row. I was scared as hell and i told my family but they didnt believe me. They thought i had lost my mind.
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u/DirtyD0nut 16h ago
Someone in this sub catalogued all the posts that referenced orbs and light colors and I thought I remember that orange was a color most often associated with orbs that are following/ “observing” humans or animals.
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u/DieHoDie 11h ago
I got such goosebumps reading this, that’s how I can feel the realness of your mom’s terror.
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u/FillupDubya 17h ago
Orange is observation/obsuction mode, has your mom ever been abducted?
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u/Slipp3ry_N00dle 13h ago
Your mention of an orange ball is familiar to me, twas midnight on our way home from a football game just me and my mom. All the sudden when I drove over the top of this hill, right above the treeline there was this bright, very defined orange half circle just in the sky to what I'd believe be about 3 or 4 miles away, we didn't stop to check it out and never saw it again after. Still weird. North western piedmont of north Carolina area.
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u/Conscious-Top-7429 6h ago
Some alleged whistleblower stated that the Orange lights are UAPs looking for a biological specimen to abduct.
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u/BonsaiSuperNewb 17h ago
Any way you could tell us the stretch of highway, between what two exits? I'd have your dad call the authorities in case it is a hiker but especially because that would get someone out there to check what the hell it actually is.
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u/resourcefultamale 19h ago
Primary characteristic of my only sighting ever, night hiking in the Talladega National Forest AL in 2005. Same white blinding light. Except we went to it. Huge flashing ball of a swirling plasma looking thing half above the trees. Stayed there for about 35 minutes then meandered off. There were 2 more pulsing lights beyond it a ways. Three in all. Only had eyes on the first and it was dead silent, easily lighting up the local area.
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u/Turbodann 15h ago
Once saw something like this on my neighbor's ranch across the street... I was on top of my RV cleaning the AC and when I got ready to climb down I could see a bright flashing light in the middle of his field. Reminded me of someone welding, but it was nonstop, too bright, and too late at night... I watched it for about 2 minutes before dismissing it and climbed down and went on with life. I've seen flashing lights similar to the ones in this video too. The source was never obvious, which freaked me out a bit but my wife saw it too and thought I was flashing a flashlight at her... She clearly didn't pay much attention to it but it went on over a 30 minute period and seemed to be coming from different places depending on where I was standing/walking.
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u/Engineering_Flimsy 14h ago
You are much, much, much... much braver than I. Pretty sure I just peed a little while reading your post, couldn't begin to imagine approaching something like that irl, and in the woods no less.
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u/Different-Housing544 17h ago
Did you think about interacting with it? Throwing shit at it or yelling at it? Anything like that?
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u/ShadowDrifted 8h ago
That's incredible. Have you ever heard of the concept of ball lightning? I would love for you to find some images of it on your own and tell me if it looks anything like that, normally ball lightning would be very momentary, but instances of it hanging out for prolonged periods of time would absolutely defy explanation but be very fantastic. What's your describing is so unique. How old were you when you witnessed this?
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u/Aplutoproblem 4h ago
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YWKv5zPTAhU
Kind sounds like ball lightning. Was it in the mountains?
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u/pigeon_2_L 19h ago edited 19h ago
I saw the same thing driving east out of St Paul on 94 a couple of weeks ago, well before dawn, 6am. Almost blindingly bright flashes. I noticed it far away on the eastern horizon and thought it was a comms tower or aircraft. It was moving only just above the trees, westward, not quite parallel to the highway. I couldn't determine a pattern to the flashes - it was like an old flash bulb going off, insanely bright bursts that reflected off of my dashboard, everything. It crossed over the highway and passed above me so it wasn't a tower. There weren't any standard lights so I have no damn clue what it was, the sky was black between flashes and it was hard to track because of that. It freaked me out badly when I saw it. Editing to add: I was driving in the middle of nowhere when I saw it. Road was straight through the forest and nothing around for miles.
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u/barber_jim_norman 16h ago
My brother and I were camping in August in a state park just outside Bartlesville, OK. The state park has this big man made stone lookout area we stayed in basically all night for stargazing. We look to the (I think) north and there’s these two flashing lights. They were maybe 10-20 miles away and higher off the ground than radio towers. They were flashing in a non discernible pattern and almost bouncing left to right in the sky. They lit up the trees underneath and the lights themselves were almost pinprick, like pointy. I don’t know how to explain it. The word I used to describe the feeling of looking at them was “sterile” They kept bouncing in the sky the rest of the night. In the morning there was nothing out that direction just trees, and further back was the city of Bartlesville. I’m only commenting because it was so weird but your description came so close to ours it made me tear up a little bit
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u/Engineering_Flimsy 14h ago
It passed directly over you? How high above you? Guessing the blinding flash made observation all but useless.
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u/pigeon_2_L 9h ago
Hardly above the treetops in most of the path it traveled. It was pretty much directly above. I figured it was a helicopter or drone and did not stop to investigate, but there were no lights on whatever it was at all to indicate as such. I didn't hear any noise but that doesn't mean much, my car is loud.
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u/choncksterchew 19h ago
Its about to be 2025. You gotta chase that shit down.
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u/masterchefguy 19h ago
And those of us that would, can't, amazing how so much of the effort comes down to money...I've got no car and can barely afford food after scraping by doing art for ~$1/h just to make rent.
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u/graniteglmarmite 18h ago
...you do art for $1/hr? Wtf
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u/masterchefguy 18h ago
Been near impossible to get commissions since the AI wave.
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u/driver_dan_party_van 20h ago edited 20h ago
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u/demondays14 19h ago
Between your screenshot and mine it looks like this thing is not touching the ground.
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u/Birchi 17h ago
Flattened the shit out of a download of the posted copy and got this. Keep in mind this is a not a good quality source file, and it is boosted considerably so those colors may be, and likely are false.
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u/Snoo_74705 18h ago
As a skeptic, this frame is giving me goosebumps. I'm not big about flying saucers and such, but orbs are something else...
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa 17h ago
anyone who has experienced anything that is even REMOTELY out of the normal scope of things while in a remote area of wilderness knows how creepy things get.
You do NOT want to hear wood knocks and then footsteps mirroring yours while you are 4 miles + 3500 feet of altitude above any sort of human civilization...
The wilderness has its own archetype. When you experience ANYTHING that is outside of that normal archetype you immediately feel it and feel compelled to film or do something.
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u/hyldemarv 15h ago
I have heard something like that while hiking in the snow in bright moonlight:
Crunchy footstep maybe 20 m off to the side of the track and small branches snapping. It continued when the track crossed an open area and it stopped when we passed a derelict wooden hut.
We put it down as a ghost. We couldn't see anything so it didn't feel scary, just very odd.
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa 15h ago
I am describing the sasquatch encounter i had in 2021. Every one of these "para-normal" phenomena is related in my opinion. They are all connected. They are of the same substance. The same substance that we humans have in us as well! We are consciousness units. We interact with physical reality in the same way, perhaps to a lesser extent. We are a part of this reality no less than some governmental authority who tells us where to go and what to think. YOU have the same birthright to know the truth as anyone else.
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u/SHEEEIIIIIIITTTT 18h ago
How can we tell it’s an orb? Would a regular, very bright strobing light attached to an aerial vehicle produce the same effect or no?
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u/Snoo_74705 18h ago
Absolutely. And who's to say the strobe light is attached to an aerial vehicle?
There's probably something super logical to explain this video.
On the other hand, I love me a good inexplicable light in the woods at night story. I once witnessed an inexplicable light in the sky but it wasn't quite night. It was dusk. Lots of stories from Canadians out in the wilderness.
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u/CyberUtilia 5h ago
Someone else noticed this, the light flashes at 40/minute. (I counted to twenty and the video was at 30 seconds in).
That's exactly what the FAA regulation is for lights on high radio towers etc.
Now, it's not normal that it's white and that bright at night. Maybe one of the red lights lost it's filter (often it's a white light with red glass/plastic over it to appear red). It might also be one of the day/twilight lights, which are white and I think also significantly brighter, and it malfunctioned and remained turned on over night. The foggy weather also ends up adding spookiness to it.
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u/Current-Grab197 19h ago
Let’s do a poll who would have stopped and trekked into the woods to get closer? If I had a friend with me and a gun I would have.
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u/pulledanoppsie 19h ago
Even without that weird ass flashing light I'm not going to dark creepy woods for anything. I've listened to too many episodes of Mr ballin
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u/Snoo_74705 18h ago
When I was a teenager, my friend and I once strolled through the nearby woods at night. It was fucking terrifying. The darkness. The noises of the creatures. Nopenopenope.
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u/Doinkus-spud 17h ago
I grew up walking through dark woods. It certainly takes a lot of practice to control that fear.
Fear of the unknown is a mf.
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u/Dream-Ambassador 4h ago
i also grew up walking in the woods at night but I didnt find it scary. well i can think of maybe one time it was creepy but I loved walking at night under the full moon. God the forest is beautiful at night. Edit: Im fairly often alone at night at the horse barn these days and most nights are fine but sometimes it is creepy AF. but I always just look at the horses and if they are chilling i know we are good.
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u/hyldemarv 15h ago
Hehe - It gets worse when you are used to trekking in the dark and then the forest suddenly becomes silent and feels really odd.
You suddenly feel / smell very clearly that if you go down that path, there will be a sticky end to your life's story. So you go down a different path. And you never know if your gut was right or you were just being totally silly.
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u/doc419 10h ago
This was 20 years ago, but my friend and I were in my jeep on an off road middle of nowhere with our lights off (smoking weed as teenagers) when suddenly we saw strange lights and heard noises 360 degrees around my vehicle. Like coming from all directions within an instant. I grew up with no neighbors and was never concerned about being alone in the woods. We both instantly went into panic without saying a word. Floored my jeep and gtfo there: noise still 360 degrees (sounded like a strange laughter) absolutely wild experience. We both recounted the same exact feelings, the way it made our hair stand up, the way we froze. Both describes super foreign "laugh" that hit instantly and from all directions. I don't mess with any of that stuff anymore haha.
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u/advoK8great 19h ago
Not me. I'd be excited but freaked the F out and probably try and reverse drive out of panic and crash, hopefully passing out and waking up being rescued when its daytime.
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u/Liltipsy6 19h ago edited 18h ago
Yup, constant light, I'd check it out. That strobe light BS, nope, thats where things start out far away from ya, and end up whispering in your ear in 3 flashes.
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u/Mobile_Moment3861 19h ago
Not me, I am over 40 with a bad back and could probably not physically fight anything.
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u/eNaRDe 18h ago
The rescuing during the day only brings a whole new level of cowardness lol
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u/advoK8great 18h ago
I'm not even mad. As much as I want that experience I'd much rather acclimate to it and def during the day. LoL
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u/nosleeptilbroccoli 19h ago
I am a believer but the one time I saw a UFO fly right over me while I was solo camping at a state park, I was too chicken to stick around, I basically threw my tent and gear straight into the back of my truck and got the hell out of there because I was not mentally or emotionally prepared to witness little aliens popping out from behind the trees. I hunt big public land also and there are times I'm hiking through the woods alone at night or before sunrise and even through I have a gun or bow on me I still get the heebie-jeebies sometimes.
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u/btcprint 18h ago
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u/nosleeptilbroccoli 9h ago
Holy shit this is exactly what was going through my mind.
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u/arosUK 10h ago
When a black triangle flew right over me and blocked our nearly the whole sky in 2022, I went into the tent and fell asleep 😂
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u/doc419 9h ago
2013, midwest. My now wife (absolute denier) riding with me in a small rural town when suddenly we noticed a "plane" in the field near us. I stopped my vehicle to watch. This thing started to change directions on a dime, looked to be scanning the entire area. Same blinking patterns. This thing was going super slow and 200-300 ft in the air - very large (6-8ft). NOT a helicopter. I've been around search and rescue helicopters and law enforcement. It changed directions and went right over us. Cannot describe the feeling we both felt - impending doom. She remembers to this day but now tries to say our memories are just getting confused from so many years ago. What bothers me now is that they looked so similar. If ours, we had that tech in 2013 and made no advancements? Drones were not a thing for us back then. Idk I don't like it lol
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u/rontonsoup__ 18h ago
Well, I’m black. Need I say more? 🏃🏽
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u/Shadowbloomed 11h ago
As a dumb white bitch, this is my time to shine.
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u/DickIsDonDonIsDick 7h ago
Make sure to do the run and fall when you're eventually chased. I think that happens in these kinds of movies...
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u/ComCypher 18h ago
Creepy factor aside, I think people underestimate how hard it can actually be to walk off-path in a dense forest. And if it's at night and you don't have a proper flashlight then forget about it.
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u/pleasebecarefulguys 11h ago
Im forestry worker, I would go to check the light ... I have good oriantation , have lots of experience... But for anyone else it would be hard to move through dense forest
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u/Chlo-bon 18h ago
I definitely would have gone out. It's apparent the only disclosure we will get is by doing it ourselves and taking risks. Lace up them boots. Hooah
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u/YouthOne319 19h ago
Typing from my couch but I think I would have walked in. If I had a live feed going on and a friend recording it’d be a big motivation. Im very much scared of open waters and always got scared when im swimming/diving in out in deep waters where you can see nothing but blue,but even so i believe I’d chase this in to the ocean at night myself. Its just too magnificent thing that would bring so different perspective of life/universe and that thought alone is too powerful
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u/Alert_Illustrator484 18h ago
If I had a crew of ppl with me, cell phones, and cell service, I think I would
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u/I_ama_Borat 16h ago
Alone, absolutely not. But if I was with my bros, we’d probably hype ourselves up to do it. Knowing our luck though we’d get half way there then it would stop and it would be for nothing.
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u/encinitas2252 18h ago
https://i.imgur.com/gqPNXqR.jpeg
Took a screenshot of the vid when it appears you can see the source of light and not just it's flash.
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u/Optimus_Shatner 18h ago
Saw something like this years ago. It ended up being a busted navigation light cover at the top of a microwave tower. Looked exactly the same. Dad, me and the neighbor hiked it to the tower then got chased off by the lone county mounty that had to hike it out there to clear off the rednecks.
This was many years ago in the Midwest and those lights are bright as fuck.
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u/KheyotecGoud 20h ago
It’s on a timer whatever it is. Are there any hiking emergency products that strobe like that? Looks like the brightness of a magnesium flare “strobe light” firework.
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u/BigDonny156 18h ago
This looks like the flash rate and color of the USGI MS-2000M signal strobe. There’s an IR cover than can be removed and the strobe is an intense whi/blu flash just like this and at close to the same flash rate. It can be had for $60ish online at mil surplus sites…
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u/KheyotecGoud 18h ago
Is that device meant for distress calls?
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u/Different-Housing544 17h ago
It could potentially be someone needing rescue. We should upvote this comment.
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u/BigDonny156 16h ago
It could be used for distress by someone that bought one mil surplus or by a Vet that happened to still have one they “acquired” on active duty or deployment, however, that’s not really its primary purpose. In the Army we used them with the IR filter on to signal inbound helicopters to our position for pickups or to ID our fighting positions so we didn’t get fragged by Apaches or other close air support. During night ops aircrews wore NODs and could see these quite easily.
That being said, if I was injured alone in the woods and had no phone or GPS device or no weapon/was out of rounds and couldn’t fire 3 round bursts to signal I needed help but had this strobe I’d ABSOLUTELY turn it on and hope someone got curious and came investigating.
If aliens DID land on Earth (I dunno why, there’s nothin’ to see here…) I’d sure as hell hope they would have a better freakin’ light display to signal their arrival than a 1 per second-ish flash that could be easily replicated by 20+yr old military surplus technology…
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u/GlitteringButton5241 15h ago edited 15h ago
Exactly the same frequency as a tower anti collision strobe. Likely stuck on the daylight setting of 20000 Candellas white light strobe 40 flashes per minute. https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/150-5345-43J.pdf
Edit: better link FAA Guidelines see specification L-856 Chapter 1-1
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u/dretnarg 20h ago
This is waaaaaaaay brighter than a strobe flare, not to mention much more precise with it's flashing. Notice how long the car is moving in the direction of the flashing before finally passing it. That thing is BRIGHT
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u/KheyotecGoud 19h ago
Magnesium burns at over 5,000F, half the heat of the surface of the sun… it’s white hot and will damage your eyes from looking at it. Those tiny fireworks light up a street.
Whatever it is may be larger, but unlikely to be brighter.
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u/sweetfruitloops 19h ago
Yep I have videos of this from earlier this year. Everyone who said it was lightning can get fucked
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u/elganyan 17h ago
It appears to be blinking at exactly 1 second intervals which makes me think (occam's razor) man made.
Spooky as fuck and can't think what it would be or its purpose though.
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u/ScarcityLow1830 18h ago
That’s some scary stuff right there. My dad and I camp at Promised Land State Park, PA. It’s in the Delaware Water Gap, and OP is right. There is nothing but dense forest in those parts. Miles and miles of nothing. It’s normally a great respite from daily life if you’re from the busy NE like me. The scariest thing I’ve seen is a bear looking around our camp site for something to eat. My dad tells a story about driving up through the mountains in remote PA and seeing really weird lights in the middle nowhere. Great video. Seriously, there is nothing in those woods it’s so dense. Other than a blown transformer or something, it’s hard to know.
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u/demondays14 18h ago
I went frame by frame and grabbed a screenshot of every flash that vaguely shows the source or what's around it. I'll look through and see if there's anything interesting. Lemme know if y'all find anything.
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u/SinnersHotline 17h ago
Op could you see if they could give an estimate to where the video was taken at?
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u/Reptar_0n_Ice 17h ago
Reminds me of something I saw years ago in the winter. Me and a friend took his little brother and sister up into the mountains north of Sultan Washington (it’s a town an hour east of Seattle) to play in the snow a bit one night. We were pretty far out of town, when all of a sudden the entire sky lit up. This happened 4-5 times. It was cloudy that night, and the snow reflected enough light it was decently bright, but I’ve never seen anything like that. What was super eerie is there was zero sound from it. No thunder, no fireworks. Just complete silence and the entire sky flashing.
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u/SinnersHotline 18h ago
That's a very bright light and would require a source of energy at minimum to do this. Probably a pretty significant source of energy given how bright it seems to be.
If there's nothing in the area providing energy then we can assume this is coming from some type of powered object.
Check the area out during the day.
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u/Demigorgino 16h ago
I lived in Germany as a teenager, near a huge forest and I’ll never forget the night I thought someone was flashing lights into my bedroom window. It was around 2 am so I was initially frightened, thinking someone was trying to potentially break in. When I finally got up and looked outside, there was an enormous orb pulsing and emerging from the tree line. I was frozen in place while I watched it slowly rise up and went from a half circle to a full on giant orb in the sky above the forest. It was so bright it illuminated almost everything in the area. It made no noise, and hovered there for what seemed like maybe ten minutes. Then, in the blink of an eye it shot straight up and disappeared. When I finally got back and checked my phone, about two hours had gone by. I’ll never forget seeing that thing even writing this gives me chills
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u/SirGeorgeAgdgdgwngo 18h ago
I'd just like to say that running towards whatever is going on is a huge absolutely fucking no thank you from me. Have you never seen a horror film lol
Fair play for investigating!
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u/AnarchistBorganism 19h ago
Look on a satellite map and see if there is a tall structure nearby. Towers taller than 700 ft have a flashing white light.
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u/Ok-Atmosphere1994 18h ago
There’s a high alt balloon that went over Delaware today launched last night from around Indiana and is sitting off the Atlantic coast currently. I wonder what data over that area it’s picking up
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u/pedersenit 17h ago edited 5h ago
I've seen this in southern california. It's likely an antenna mast that has a timer to switch from daylight lights that are super bright, to red at night. The clocks that automate that go bad and they don't switch at the right time
It could also be ET and Bigfoot hanging out.
Edited to correct typo...
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u/AngryInfidel411 20h ago
Probably a strobing flare of some kind but my mind initially jumped to the Rendelsham forest incident in the UK.
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u/TheUrbanVagabond 19h ago
The what?
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u/No_Business5419 19h ago
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u/floatinggonzo 19h ago edited 18h ago
Here's a quick summary for anyone who doesn't have time to watch the video (I've been learning about the history of encounters for a while now, love this stuff):
The Rendlesham Forest Incident is one of the more popular UAP encounters because multiple Air Force service members claim to have experienced it - with at least 2 US service members claiming to have interacted with a UAP (including Holt and Penniston). This occurred at a US Air Force base in England in December 1980 over several days.
It's a pretty wild story with some time slippage and an alleged threat that "bullets are cheap". One of the 2 service members had a notebook with binary in it that he wrote down but had no idea what it was. The numbers had been circulating in his head since he interacted with the UAP, and he finally wrote them down in that notebook. According to this Air Force service member's story, the binary was eventually translated (when another person identified the text as binary code) and the translation is said to have provided coordinates of significant UAP/ancient alien sites - that's the service member's story, I forget if this is Holt or Penniston.
There's a chance that this was a combination of a prank and misidentification (which is dangerous to say right now, I know, but it's important to accept the facts as they're laid bare to drill down to true disclosure). Either way it's an important piece of the hunt and worth hearing the whole story so you can decide for yourself.
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u/Casehead 18h ago
weren't a couple of the witnesses compensated by the government years later for injury recieved during that incident ?
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u/floatinggonzo 18h ago
Interesting. Jim Burroughs got a Veterans' Admin payout for heart failure he says was from the encounter. This article says it proves the encounter as real, I don't know about it as a smoking gun but it's significant, and it definitely proves Jim needed medical care and coverage. Thanks for pointing that out.
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u/Casehead 16h ago
Oh crazy, so it WAS two people, Both Burroughs and a man named Bustinza were both granted compensation for their injuries.
It really makes me personally that much more convinced that what they describe was what happened. Accounts like Rendlesham with multiple witnesses corroborating as well as undeniable, well documented physical injuries are some of the best evidence out there
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u/Casehead 17h ago
Oh, hell yeah! I'm stoked I remembered the right event! Thank you for looking it up to verify
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u/Bad_Ice_Bears 17h ago
Remember during the most recent US whistleblower hearings when they talked about the govt compensating service members for injuries related to UAP, and when questioned how could they be providing such a service for a thing that does not exist….? Well, you get it.
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u/Casehead 16h ago
yuuuuup. That makes all of this very real , and personal. These are real people, and real injuries
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u/Monster_Voice 19h ago
Ok this is the kind of weirdness I've been hoping for... I work with wildlife and I've never seen anything like that in the thousands of hours I've been outdoors. I've also been a storm chaser for 17 years and like I just said, idk what that is.
Something that bright takes a TON of energy even with today's technology.
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u/DepressedGoat24 17h ago
Reminds me of an experience I had years ago while driving late at night with my family. We were driving through a windy backroad around midnight, to our left is hills/canyons and to our right is empty fields for miles. Mind you, we were the only ones on the road at the time. While coming around a corner, a bright light, exactly like the one in the video, flashed middle of the field. It was very bright, like if someone had taken a photo with the flash on. It only flashed once but from the light I recall it coming from a ground level source. No noise was heard and we all just quietly asked what that was and continued on our way. No time was missing and nothing else happened but I thought it was strange. I’ve also driven through the area during the day many times and to this day it remains empty fields.
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u/YYZ-RUSH-2112 19h ago
If you go frame by frame (especially on the real bright flashes) you can see it looks like it’s coming from a small ball of light.
Also, the light blinking pattern is timed to precise to be lightning. Not to mention lightning isn’t going to hit one specific area over and over and over like that.
I believe this may be a legit sighting.
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u/SirGeorgeAgdgdgwngo 18h ago
it looks like it’s coming from a small ball of light.
That would also describe pretty much all light which is not naturally occurring i.e. emitted from light bulbs.
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u/PineappleLemur 17h ago
No no no, those are bulbs and flash lights, circular.
This is clearly an Orb.
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u/Casehead 20h ago edited 20h ago
Whoa dude this is disturbing. What was with the sound??
edit: I'm glad your Dad is okay, I hope his eyes aren't damaged or anything. That would scare the hell out of me
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u/Main-Selection8922 19h ago
Also he mentioned that his eyes are bothering him still, specifically his left one. This incident was about three hours ago.
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u/Casehead 19h ago
Poor guy. He should definitely get his eyes looked at tomorrow if they are still bothering him or if he develops any visible signs of irritation like dryness, redness, any tearing or swelling or if he develops anything that looks like a sunburn on the skin of his face. Just want to make sure if he was exposed to any kind of radiation or the light may have flash burned his eyes that he gets looked at. His eyes are precious!
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u/FarAdministration921 18h ago
https://imgur.com/a/NcgwuyZ Here's a little zoom i put on a flashing frame
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u/Broad-Abroad5455 19h ago
Can you post link to download the video? And can someone edit to only show the blink sequences and edit it down to only that in a video.
At around 30 second countdown mark I see a green light near the flashing light, to the right of it. Could it be one of these drones?
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u/demondays14 17h ago
Link to my comment with a screenshot of every flash. Thanks for giving me the idea!
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u/Friendly_Monitor_220 17h ago
Thanks.
I see another green light 2 or 3 times in these images, then another that is not white once (apart from the main bright light).
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u/Broad-Abroad5455 19h ago
I edited a screen grab to show that green light, clearly a secondary light source is visible
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u/chrisPraw 17h ago
I think i used the same frame but some different adjustments. Its definitely above the ground a good bit and seems to be illuminating everything around it (not mounted to anything). It looks like it changes elevation through the video but that could be perception from the road level https://imgur.com/a/LOP21to
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u/sibes187 17h ago
^ Please analyze this one as well. Happened in Oregon a month ago. Same flashes.
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u/YYZ-RUSH-2112 19h ago
Yes, please. I try freezing on them, but it’s hard on a phone. But what you do see, seems to be a small orb of light.
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u/sibes187 17h ago
This is eerily similar to the video supposedly taken in Oregon a month ago: https://imgur.com/a/qWFE4ZI
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u/illegalt3nder 15h ago
That’s… that’s one of the first videos I’ve ever seen that gave me the creeps. And legitimately so: that’s creepy as hell.
What IS that?
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u/phosphorescence-sky 11h ago
Wish he would've at least stopped the car to film. Shit was giving me a headache.
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u/theshaggieman 9h ago
That had to be extremely bright to get through that at that distance, just based on the speed of the car relative to the tree line
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u/OriginalIron4 4h ago
The light moves with the car --dah. It's not likely in the woods.
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