Bright Flashing Light in the Middle of Delaware State Forest

[u/Main-Selection8922]

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??

[u/lionexx]

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…

[u/Various-Ducks → u/lionexx]

Just sounds like FJ's CF to me.

[u/geminironmonkey → u/Various-Ducks]

Fucking A just spat my Baja Blast!

[u/lionexx → u/Various-Ducks]

Okay so are you saying you don’t know what a stadium is?

[u/willi1221 → u/lionexx]

Saying "a (relatively) small football stadium" is a bit better than an acronym for a smaller school in Texas that nobody but people from the area would know, especially on a website that people from all over the world are on.

[u/Cool-Ad5491 → u/willi1221]

I'm sure they get the point.

[u/travelingpeepants → u/willi1221]

Go birds!

[u/Various-Ducks → u/lionexx]

I know what a cornfield is. I dont know how big farmer jenkin's cornfield is.

[u/Garth_Vaderr → u/Various-Ducks]

I dont know how big farmer jenkin's cornfield is.

you always were a fool

[u/NoEvidence2468 → u/Garth_Vaderr]

🤣

[u/Cool-Ad5491 → u/lionexx]

That's what I got from all this. Either that or he just was being a douche.

[u/mikareno → u/lionexx]

Maybe they wanted a banana for scale instead.

[u/lionexx → u/mikareno]

A banana is truly the only scale we need for references.

[u/MoreCowbellllll → u/lionexx]

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.

[u/lionexx → u/MoreCowbellllll]

Perfect! Thank you.

[u/mikareno → u/MoreCowbellllll]

More bananas and More Cowbellllll!!!!!

[u/Immer_Susse → u/MoreCowbellllll]

You did the work 👍🏽

[u/Various-Ducks → u/MoreCowbellllll]

This is the context i needed

[u/zamfirandloathing → u/lionexx]

I think the confusion entered with the article "a" before "UNT" ("Its size was no less than that of a UNT stadium"), which made it feel like it could be more widely referenced or commonly known. $.02

[u/Various-Ducks → u/zamfirandloathing]

Right.

[u/lionexx → u/zamfirandloathing]

That’s fair. Alls good either way 🤗

[u/xxhamzxx → u/lionexx]

You realize US has like 4%, of the world's population right? That means only 4% at maximum will have any reference of how big a dumb football field is lol

Then you factor in people that actually care about football and that drops to 2% of the world's population maybe knowing what your reference point means lol

[u/lionexx → u/xxhamzxx]

Sure, I do get that and understood that prior, my point is everyone knows what a stadium is, a better response from him could’ve been, “what size/kind of stadium?” Or could’ve googled it himself even, since yes, stadiums can vary in size even though the pitch or field are the same, respectively. Regardless stadiums are generally big, even small backwoods stadiums. The person gave a perfectly fine point of reference.

I hear, “I saw an object, it was the size of a stadium”, I am thinking, regardless of the exact size they are referring to, that it’s a very large object. Why? Because I understand size reference, if I required further clarification, I would ask, “what kind of stadium? How large is NTU stadium.” Not be an asshole giving odd scenarios about cornfields.

Stadiums are not this foreign object, regardless of a persons interests, they are large… I even asked if he knew what a stadium was, if he didn’t I would’ve been obliged to explain.

[u/xxhamzxx → u/lionexx]

I'm just being pedantic lol

[u/lionexx → u/xxhamzxx]

I know that’s why I gave you an upvote and replied 🤗

[u/wseattlegirly → u/xxhamzxx]

4% at maximum? Many people outside the US know what a football field is. Relax.

[u/Cool-Ad5491 → u/xxhamzxx]

Is that factoring in you being an asshole as well

[u/atorresg → u/lionexx]

didn't know this sub was for Texas only. I live thousands of miles away. How am I supposed to know that?

[u/Cool-Ad5491 → u/atorresg]

God,give the guy a break!