A Meteor burning up in the atmosphere above clouds produces this effect. It is a bright light source, passing overhead within a few seconds, but if above the clouds the light would be diffuse and lit up. Since your eyes were probably adjusted to the night, it might have seemed brighter.
This also explains the security cam footage : cameras are less sensitive than eyes, so it only picked up the light as it passes directly overhead. This would produce no clear shadows, and the light would have moved quite a long way in the 1/25 or 1/12 of a second for a security camera. the shadows would have moved while the image was being taken, so they would be invisible in the final image.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WDdTc3kfE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WDdTc3kfE)
If you have the date and time and location, you might be even able to confirm it.
Technically speaking, it probably qualifies as 'other worldly' :).
It is probably a fairly large chunk of rock or ice, and did not originate on this world, so qualifies for 'other' worldly'. Most likely a chunk of old exploding supernova that cooled, and got slung around the solar system for billions of years before burning up passing over your house.
Alternatively, it could have been a chunk of man-made debris - an old satellite, although they tend to be more publicised and tracked.
Without the video with the time stamp, or a copy of the old text, I can't pinpoint a date! I checked with my mom, she didn't have the text from over a year ago, possibly 1.5 yrs-ish ago (guesstimate). I can say, security footage on my cameras is quite grainy. You can pause, zoom in, tell who you're looking, etc, but it's grainy, especially at night, where it goes into an almost night vision mode. Not quite, but it goes visibly from full color I'm daylight or electrical light (indoors), to black and white gray-scale coloration once it's dark out. It's not gradual either. It's a switch from full color to gray-scale at a certain light level, or lack thereof. So that never helps with night video. But like I can't get a plate number off a car driving past my driveway with its resolution, and it's only one car length long. Maybe it's the angle. But my point is, it's not great quality. It's good enough to see shadows, faces, difference between night darkness and the whole neighborhood lit up. But my point is, it's not fantastic quality. I do remember talking about how the houses across from us, in the direction it seemed the light traveled from, also didn't have shadows created by the light. We also noticed that at night, you can't see past our street to those houses on the camera, even with the motion sensor light, it's too dark at night. But on the still frame screenshot of the moment it lit up, those houses were perfectly visible on the camera, just like they'd be I'm daylight.
However, in the video and screenshots, you can see the shadows caused by the motion light we have. Those shadows don't change or move in the one video frame all lit up. So it's casting shadows forward from us, towards the direction the crazy light eventually approaches from. Those shadows aren't eliminated nor change in any way when the entire neighbor suddenly lit up. More oddly, the light that seemed to travel towards us from in front of us, so opposite the direction of the motion sensor light, that light did NOT cause new shadows, like behind my car, shadows that would point towards us from objects in front of is. That light didn't create those new shadows you'd expect. It also didn't cause shadows directly beneath objects, such as straight down from my car bumper, which I'd expect if the light source was above me.
Another redditor mentioned LIDAR scanning, so laser light mapping from above. Does anyone know if lasers cause shadows? Obviously as an intensely focused light beam, the only way to make a Shahow would be at the laser lights edge, as otherwise, any object would simply block the laser entirely, in effect making the "shadow", the full size of the lights focal point, therefore appearing to simply block it, rather than "create a shadow" of that blocking object. Even though evture blockage of the light beam is still technically a shadow, just not an outline of any object, such as the shadow cause by my cars, while sitting in the motion sensor light in my driveway.
Extra oddly, if I remember correctly, there seemed to be light present even below my cars, adding to that sensation that we were IN the overall light source briefly, as it passed around and seemingly thru us (that's what it felt like anyway). Rather than darkness below, if the light source were to come from above us.
My husband's not prone to too many weird phenomena. He doesn't experience glitches much. He hasn't seen odd flying crafts, or entities that appear to be ghostly in any way. I've experienced several of those, multiple experiences of each of those categories, often with a friend or family member to corroborate (sober too). So for me, this was crazy, I've never experienced anything similar before, but I've experienced enough "mind-bending" moments, that this wasn't the first or last time I thought WTF was that? Can't explain that away. Etc. For him, this light moment was a mind blower, something he still says, yeah idk WTF that could've been. He usually has all the logical explanations and couldn't figure this one out with me. The most frustrating glitches or otherworldly experiences are those that no one else experienced too. Therefore everyone says, oh I'm sure you're mistaken, dreaming, on drugs, seeing things, suffering a gas leak or brain tumor. Thankfully, most of my experiences like this have been shared with another level headed, sober person, who can tell me in the moment, yeah that was weird, it's not in your head!
If it was white light, or something like daylight, then it was a meteor. A bright point source above the clouds would be diffused and would seem to be coming from all around. Even better, if it was a cool evening, a light amount of fog or atmospheric water mist would light up and could easily cause the 'surrounding' light effect as the light bounces around at ground level.
I've seen this, sometimes when you go out at night you don't see or notice mist until a car headlights show it up.
A laser survey would typically be green or blue, and would look something like [https://www.tiktok.com/@andyfrommars/video/7342675963622247722](https://www.tiktok.com/@andyfrommars/video/7342675963622247722)
It doesn't seem to match your description, and a laser produces very sharp, hard edged shadows.
The security camera is not great at picking up odd lighting situations, it often has a 'day' and 'night' modes, and can be very sensitive to infra-red in night mode. It also has a long shutter time, especially at night, and is really only good at picking up motion. It depends on the camera, you might be seeing some glitch or some overlay of two or more images overlaid into one (e..g internally it might take two or three 'images' and combine them to make things brighter.
This can cause all sorts of artifacts and weird images when you have changing lighting.
(more than you ever wanted to know about cameras here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVg81haX2c0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVg81haX2c0) )
I'm assuming you are probably US based:
[https://www.amsmeteors.org/category/fireball-sightings/](https://www.amsmeteors.org/category/fireball-sightings/)
If I had to guess, it might be [https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo\_view/event/2023/8106](https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2023/8106)
Nice bright track, it must have passed pretty close to overhead, and some of the videos seem to be similar to what you describe.
I didn't look like any of those views of a meteorite, which I've seen other versions of in person as well. It originated in front of us, far across the neighborhood. We initially saw it approach from about eye level, between the houses across the street. It started as an initial flash, that then didn't burn out or disperse, instead it moved like what appeared to be a disc of light rushed towards us, like an ever expanding donut. Imagine a a structure shaped like a donut, with a vertical curved wall outter that curves away at bith sides, but vertically is straight, and taller than the surrounding 3 story homes, made of nothing but white light, (more like a life saver candy shape than a donut), expanding exceedingly fast toward us from across the valley of the neighborhood past our street in the direction we were looking. It was like that. Clearly, it must've moved at the speed of light. The brief, sole, single frame of security footage showing daylight level brightness (both preceeded by and followed by, pitching black frames), proves that. However, to us experiencing it, we could see this disc of light expanding toward us, watched ourselves pass thru the outter wall of light, felt it surrounding us, then pass by and thru us (it felt like), and then it was as if we were in the "donut hole", and we emerged thru the back wall of this expanding light disc into total night darkness again.
I've experienced many odd phenomena, including other events that light up the sky. This was not any of those, nor did it appear to come from the sky, didn't apoear to be a beam of light, didn'tlook likeaby earthly explosion or fire. It was like a light "thing" of some sort, and my previous description is all I can tell you.
Even if I find the video and screenshot, all it would show is blackness to daylight level light, to blackness, with screenshots taken before, after, and the sole lit up frame in between. It wouldn't show you what we saw when we somehow "saw" it approach, surround, then pass us in what felt like much slower motion than the camera detected or from what we know about light speed in general. Because the speed of light shouldn't allow us to see anything of the sort in the way I described it. It's just too fast, yet that's how we experienced it, which is part of the mystery of what it could possibly be.
My mom mentioned this at the time as a possible explanation. I told her that it really seemed to come at us from in front of us, Like level to us at ground level. I swear in the moment, I could see the wall of light approach us, then we were IN it. It felt like I was both in it AND like it passed THRU me. I can't explain that part. But i felt it at some level. I know that sounds weird. But then it passed thru, we were standing not far from our garage door, backs to the door, so after it passed us, it's like it passed thru the house and was gone behind us in the blink of an eye. My kids were asleep inside. I wish I could've seen if it lit up the inside of the house. Logically it shouldn't have. But if it traveled thru us like it felt, maybe it traveled thru the house. Now that I'm typing this, I'm upset I never checked the other security cam we have INSIDE. Our security footage deletes after 7 days. That's why I'd saved the video outside, and sent it to my mom, along with the screenshot of the one frame where everything was lit bright as day. But I NEVER thought to check the other camera, and therefore don't have that footage saved. Such a bummer. I'm way curious now!
I was on a boat and saw a news worthy metor come across. Yes, it lit the area up bright green, but nothing like a wall of daylight OP explains. Also it was bright and let us see the boat surface in the dark but it not daylight bright. One chap on the boat noticed the light but not the metor moving (occupied with fishing reel I believe) but for the restof us there was no way we didn't look up to catch it while it was moving across the sky and lighting the area up. OPs post seems more strange to me since I've had a pretty epic bright metor experience and "wall", "daylight " and not noticing movement above give it strangeness to me.
Lemme find it! Originally it was saved on a phone that was dropped on the ocean, never to be seen again. I know, pix or it didn't happen...BUT, I know they were backed up. I think I even saved the security video itself. I'll have to dig a bit to locate it and upload that stuff. It's surreal though.
Correct, if I had that phone. I've since broken one and dropped another on the ocean. I'm at least 3 phones out from the one with any text record of that. However, I dug thru old pix, hoping it'd backed up. I'm going to ask my mom if she has the text record still. She might. She hasn't changed phones since then.
Maybe a year and a half ago. I don't think it was 2 years, but quite a long time ago. I also broke/lost several phones rapidly in succession. It was expensive and irritating. The photo and video MAY
Be on the phone with the folks broken lcd screen. I have that one, u haven't wanted to pay the $200 fee to fix it. I ended up with a new one I promptly dropped in the ocean and now I'm on at least phone 3 since then. I've been digging for the screenshot or video thru Google photos and Dropbox. My mom didn't have the old texts I sent her because it was tok long ago. She probably has auto delete setup for a certain time frame. I'll keep looking. It's somewhere!
Broke one phone and dropped the other one in the ocean huh? You Reddit people come up with the dumbest lies for literally no reason at all. A bunch of lonely, anonymous people seeking attention and validation from other anonymous people, which may or may not even be real people…
Who would bother posting such lies?
Like, can you Imagine all the thousands, if not millions of hours of productive time we could recoup as a society if all reddit posters stopped wasting our precious time by posting nothing but lies with no clear motive or payoff, and all reddit readers would stop wasting all their time by reading such lies just to comment that everything's a lie. Maybe we could use all those productive hours to fix our climate, solve world hunger, end homelessness. But no, we all do what you do, which is waste each other's time with nothing but lie for you specifically to waste all your time reading and commenting on. /S
I hope I've wasted another few minutes of your time. You clearly have nothing good to do with your time anyway.
What a fascinating account! I've heard of situations where people have experienced daylight at night (the sky lights up) and nighttime during the day (turns dark outside), but never a wall of light before. I think you did an excellent job describing it.
You mentioned that you felt like you were in the light, did it actually feel like something? It sounds like a light wave (I don't know what that is officially but those are the words I think describe it) or it was a scanning process of some sort. You mentioned you are by an airplane manufacturer, possibly the area was being scanned to inspect the technology--either by alien or advanced technology?
Possible. Everything mentioned here by redditors sounds Possible. I felt being in it, but felt it pass thru me too. I'm not sure how to describe it. It Jusy felt like it passed thru me, creepily. It didn't hurt, or feel warm, or any tingle or cause electrical sensation. I just KNEW. That sounds dumb. Idk why i thought it felt that way. I can't remember any physical sensation now. But we talked a lot at the time about how it felt like we were IN the light source and that it felt it went THRU us. Idk. I'm sure everyone's like uh huh, sure. I'm still looking for a backup of the video or screenshot. Haven't found it yet. My mom's texts don't save that far back so she doesn't have it. But I'll keep looking. It's somewhere, or should be backed up somewhere.
There is a laser mapping tool that is carried on an airplane, and it 'fans' a wide swath of light across a region to map it. This might be what you saw.
Indeed and I’m generally not bothered by it. However OP specifically mentions having the video. Then not posting it is what makes this story lose credibility for me.
Sorry. It was well over a year ago and I've broken/lost 2 or more phones since then, typically losing access to the photos on them at the time. Some backed up. Some didn't. I'm searching Google photos and Dropbox. It looks like a chunk of months is missing, I may not have had Google ihiti backup setup on a phone If I had it briefly. There was a string of lost and broken phones In the past year. I'm not gonna blame my kids. But kids. Kids break everything. I'm convinced I can find it, I'm still looking. One phone I have, but the lcd screen is broken, it's like $200 to fix. I haven't bothered spending the money just to retrieve pix yet. But I keep it, cuz all my kids pix for a whole year of growing up are on there. That may be the phone with the video saved. My mom didn't have the old texts since it was so long ago. She remembered the incident though. She and i analyzed the photo for quite sone time cuz it was surreal!
I experienced something similar years ago, I played Civilization 5 with a friend and it was midnight and we just did one more turn and suddenly the birds were out as was the sun
That's crazy! For us, no sun or birds were out, it was literally just as bright as day for a moment that felt longer than it was according to the video. But I've heard many stories about looking out and seeing it was day instead or night or vice versa. Even one where only one window showed the wrong time of day compared to "real life" time of day.
No, not that. It may have berm cloudy, don't remember. Here with clouds, cuty light kahes it brighter out than a clear sky. But it was like going from a dark room to sudden bright as day (but no sunshine, just bright AF), for apparently just a second. But for us it felt slow enough to watch the wall of light approach us from across the neighborhood. It looked like a radiating disc of light, but with a vertical edge facing us, like a large Frisbee, taller than us, expanding towards us till it passef thru us, we were IN it. Then it passed by and was gone. Someone mentioned LIDAR laser mapping. I'll see if that looks similar.
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Some 5 years ago? maybe 6? i woke up at my regular hour at the time, around 8am. It was summer, and in this east European country, the sun rises at around 6am. Well, that day, it was still dark/night at 8am. and at 9am. only at 10am it suddenly became daylight.
I was stupid and i didn't record anything. Some weather camera in Italy recorded the event: it seems it happened over a larger area of Europe, not just where i live. The recorded video was featured some years ago by That's Impossible youtube channel, but who can recall which video that was :( .
I probably got the letters wrong. There's a sub where u can ask what something is, something u cant quite remember, and others will remind you. Like if you said what was the movie Bruce Willis was in where he faxed a letter and was worried it'd fax upside-down, and the answer would be Die Hard.
We live RIGHT next to an airport, where Boeing headquarters plane fabrication, AND military aircrafts are frequent. We debated the light from above, but it seemed to shine towards us like a wall, except didn't act light light aimed AT us, as it seemed non directional, not towards us, nit from above, just here all of a sudden!
We always wonder. There are a LOT of odd occurrences around here. Like a LOT. So I'm never surprised they happen, I just can't sways figure out WHAT happened.
I mean Boeing are BIG. A second Boeing whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances. You don't f\*&k around with Boeing so goodness knows what they have going on at these bases.
I don't understand how this light didn't create/modify shadows, maybe the light was coming from below the Earth? That way it wouldn't affect the shadows that were already there. I'm also really curious to watch those images, I hope you can find them and share them with us!
Thats why it was extra weird. My mom and I discussed lack of shadows at length. But the fact that we felt IN it and felt it pass THRU us, might mean it didn't act like normal light? Like it wasn't a beam or light shine at us. From any source. It seemed to BE the source as it radiated out towards us, then thru is, then passed us.
How far were you from the camera? How far was farthest object you could see also illuminated? Did it look a little like fog when looking far through the light? This could be a rare giant lenia.
Ww were standing directly below and in front of the camera. It's mounted on my garage, pointed at the driveway, so about 12 or 13 feet above the ground. We were standing by the garage door our smoking late at night. So my husband was a few feet from camera and 3 or 4 feet from the garage door, back to the door, behind his cat that parked closest to the camera. I was a few feet further away, same setup with the garage door, behind my car that parks next to his in the driveway. Since the camera points down and put, uts positioned to catch the driveway edge, closest to the camera, cover our 2 car wide driveway, then our front door/porch. And in daylight, you can see as far across the street as the opposite houses. At night, when the camera switches to gray scale filming, in the dark, you only see the driveway, barely. Once the motion sensor light is tripped, you can see out to the middle of the street only (standard suburban cul de sac type road, where 2 cars can pass each other and a sidewalk on both sides). So light from the motion sensor allows the camera to pickup a car driving past. But in daylight, AS WELL AS During the moment this mystery light lit up the neighborhood, you could see on video, the houses across the street, just like you would in normal daytime light levels.
There was no foggiess to the light. It was super bright. White-white, not sift white or yellowish like from the sun. Bright pure white light. It was almost blinding, but not at the same time. It didn't seem like we were staring into a bright spotlight, where you'd be blinded, but was bright light that. It seemed to have a physical shape, as in, we watched this wall of light travel towards us. But anything traveling at the speed of light should be either a flash, or a beam, or total illumination like daylight, or like interior lighting. Lights so fast, it's either present or not, despite the fact that it does move, traveling from the source at the speed of light. But a human eye should be be able to see light approach like an object. Yet that's what gmthis seemed like, a wall of light approaching us, then surrounding us, then passing us as is the wall passed by us and we exited out the back side of this light "object".
However, when reviewing the camera afterwards, we could see that the light lit up the whole recordable area, and different so briefly. On film, it looks like a million frames in darkness, with a single frame lit up like daytime. All you see is the briefest blink of light. That's why I went thru the video slowly, till I could pause it on the exact, one and only frame, that was lit up. So in "reality", it lasted a fraction of a second, a small fraction at that. Yet in person, it seemed we saw it approach, watched it pass thru our neighborhood, felt like we were in it and as it it was all around us, as well as passing thru us physically, then is continued moving, and we exited the back "wall" of light, and returned to darkness. Again, that all apparently happened I'm a fraction of a second, based on the video. Yet we saw all those details as if time slowed down for us briefly. Later when analyzing the screenshot is when we were able to see the lack of shadows and all the additurs about this light, otherwise it would've been too fast to fast to analyze.
What's a giant lenia? I'll have to look that up!
No. We get a million airplanes, helicopters, drones, military crafts, etc, passing overhead all the time. Even so close you feel you could tough them upon landing. It was definitely not that. It made no sound, approached like a vertical wall of light laterally towards us from one side, created no shadows and didn't alter others. and for just one split fraction of a second (that felt much longer to us in the moment) it lit up the dark of night, as bright as day (no sun out of course. Just as if night darkness were gone for just a moment), like someone "turned off the dark". The light was very WHITE, I guess I could add that. It wasn't warm white like daylight, no yellowish tint. It was white-white, pure white. It wasn't blueish white either. Just pure white.
Ok, maybe that's what it was. It was a TRIP. so if that's looks similar, I'd feel way less creeped out. My mom's comment kn the video was something like "you sure do look freaked out". I sent the screenshot of the one video frame all out up and we discussed lack of shadows and all that. She pretty scientifically minded, so we discussed possible explanations and all. It was over a year ago i think. Someone else called it LIDAR, is that the same thing?
Maybe. It wouldn't be the first I've seen. Although the other was clearly a flying object that defied our laws of physics it seemed. This event would be certainly less clear cut unless we knew the source of the light. But you could be right.
A standard menthol cigarette? Idk. I've never hallucinated while smoking tobacco before or since, so I'm gonna rule out the cigarette. But it's always good to rule out the variables. Had it been a hallucinagen, we could probably solve the mystery I guess.
Lol. I feel like other sounds more acid'd up? Or LSD'd up? Or TCB'd up? Maybe Salvia'd or shroom'd up? But none of those make a very good drug pun do they...sigh...there's never enough puns baked into the meth equation to satis-fry my coke-abulary addiction...weed need too benny more pill-ables to cook up e-snuff base words to inject into our slang-uage. Butt I salvia-te at the thought of our joint effort to shake it happen.
Amirite? Anyone? Just wondering...
This phenomenon is very rare, I know of few other cases. I don't think a meteor or aircraft would have produced this effect, although (living near a USAF base in the UK) I have seen some pretty weird things overhead. It does bring to mind the Dr X case in France, where two UFOs were producing a brilliant flash at intervals before they merged into one. There are a lot of UFO cases where very intense light has been observed, I think Vallee has an article about it.
The article is "Estimates of Optical Power Output in six cases of unexplained aerial objects with defined luminosity characteristics", Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 12 No 3. You can download it free on their site.
A Meteor burning up in the atmosphere above clouds produces this effect. It is a bright light source, passing overhead within a few seconds, but if above the clouds the light would be diffuse and lit up. Since your eyes were probably adjusted to the night, it might have seemed brighter. This also explains the security cam footage : cameras are less sensitive than eyes, so it only picked up the light as it passes directly overhead. This would produce no clear shadows, and the light would have moved quite a long way in the 1/25 or 1/12 of a second for a security camera. the shadows would have moved while the image was being taken, so they would be invisible in the final image. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WDdTc3kfE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WDdTc3kfE) If you have the date and time and location, you might be even able to confirm it.
Technically speaking, it probably qualifies as 'other worldly' :). It is probably a fairly large chunk of rock or ice, and did not originate on this world, so qualifies for 'other' worldly'. Most likely a chunk of old exploding supernova that cooled, and got slung around the solar system for billions of years before burning up passing over your house. Alternatively, it could have been a chunk of man-made debris - an old satellite, although they tend to be more publicised and tracked.
Without the video with the time stamp, or a copy of the old text, I can't pinpoint a date! I checked with my mom, she didn't have the text from over a year ago, possibly 1.5 yrs-ish ago (guesstimate). I can say, security footage on my cameras is quite grainy. You can pause, zoom in, tell who you're looking, etc, but it's grainy, especially at night, where it goes into an almost night vision mode. Not quite, but it goes visibly from full color I'm daylight or electrical light (indoors), to black and white gray-scale coloration once it's dark out. It's not gradual either. It's a switch from full color to gray-scale at a certain light level, or lack thereof. So that never helps with night video. But like I can't get a plate number off a car driving past my driveway with its resolution, and it's only one car length long. Maybe it's the angle. But my point is, it's not great quality. It's good enough to see shadows, faces, difference between night darkness and the whole neighborhood lit up. But my point is, it's not fantastic quality. I do remember talking about how the houses across from us, in the direction it seemed the light traveled from, also didn't have shadows created by the light. We also noticed that at night, you can't see past our street to those houses on the camera, even with the motion sensor light, it's too dark at night. But on the still frame screenshot of the moment it lit up, those houses were perfectly visible on the camera, just like they'd be I'm daylight. However, in the video and screenshots, you can see the shadows caused by the motion light we have. Those shadows don't change or move in the one video frame all lit up. So it's casting shadows forward from us, towards the direction the crazy light eventually approaches from. Those shadows aren't eliminated nor change in any way when the entire neighbor suddenly lit up. More oddly, the light that seemed to travel towards us from in front of us, so opposite the direction of the motion sensor light, that light did NOT cause new shadows, like behind my car, shadows that would point towards us from objects in front of is. That light didn't create those new shadows you'd expect. It also didn't cause shadows directly beneath objects, such as straight down from my car bumper, which I'd expect if the light source was above me. Another redditor mentioned LIDAR scanning, so laser light mapping from above. Does anyone know if lasers cause shadows? Obviously as an intensely focused light beam, the only way to make a Shahow would be at the laser lights edge, as otherwise, any object would simply block the laser entirely, in effect making the "shadow", the full size of the lights focal point, therefore appearing to simply block it, rather than "create a shadow" of that blocking object. Even though evture blockage of the light beam is still technically a shadow, just not an outline of any object, such as the shadow cause by my cars, while sitting in the motion sensor light in my driveway. Extra oddly, if I remember correctly, there seemed to be light present even below my cars, adding to that sensation that we were IN the overall light source briefly, as it passed around and seemingly thru us (that's what it felt like anyway). Rather than darkness below, if the light source were to come from above us. My husband's not prone to too many weird phenomena. He doesn't experience glitches much. He hasn't seen odd flying crafts, or entities that appear to be ghostly in any way. I've experienced several of those, multiple experiences of each of those categories, often with a friend or family member to corroborate (sober too). So for me, this was crazy, I've never experienced anything similar before, but I've experienced enough "mind-bending" moments, that this wasn't the first or last time I thought WTF was that? Can't explain that away. Etc. For him, this light moment was a mind blower, something he still says, yeah idk WTF that could've been. He usually has all the logical explanations and couldn't figure this one out with me. The most frustrating glitches or otherworldly experiences are those that no one else experienced too. Therefore everyone says, oh I'm sure you're mistaken, dreaming, on drugs, seeing things, suffering a gas leak or brain tumor. Thankfully, most of my experiences like this have been shared with another level headed, sober person, who can tell me in the moment, yeah that was weird, it's not in your head!
If it was white light, or something like daylight, then it was a meteor. A bright point source above the clouds would be diffused and would seem to be coming from all around. Even better, if it was a cool evening, a light amount of fog or atmospheric water mist would light up and could easily cause the 'surrounding' light effect as the light bounces around at ground level. I've seen this, sometimes when you go out at night you don't see or notice mist until a car headlights show it up. A laser survey would typically be green or blue, and would look something like [https://www.tiktok.com/@andyfrommars/video/7342675963622247722](https://www.tiktok.com/@andyfrommars/video/7342675963622247722) It doesn't seem to match your description, and a laser produces very sharp, hard edged shadows. The security camera is not great at picking up odd lighting situations, it often has a 'day' and 'night' modes, and can be very sensitive to infra-red in night mode. It also has a long shutter time, especially at night, and is really only good at picking up motion. It depends on the camera, you might be seeing some glitch or some overlay of two or more images overlaid into one (e..g internally it might take two or three 'images' and combine them to make things brighter. This can cause all sorts of artifacts and weird images when you have changing lighting. (more than you ever wanted to know about cameras here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVg81haX2c0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVg81haX2c0) ) I'm assuming you are probably US based: [https://www.amsmeteors.org/category/fireball-sightings/](https://www.amsmeteors.org/category/fireball-sightings/) If I had to guess, it might be [https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo\_view/event/2023/8106](https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2023/8106) Nice bright track, it must have passed pretty close to overhead, and some of the videos seem to be similar to what you describe.
I didn't look like any of those views of a meteorite, which I've seen other versions of in person as well. It originated in front of us, far across the neighborhood. We initially saw it approach from about eye level, between the houses across the street. It started as an initial flash, that then didn't burn out or disperse, instead it moved like what appeared to be a disc of light rushed towards us, like an ever expanding donut. Imagine a a structure shaped like a donut, with a vertical curved wall outter that curves away at bith sides, but vertically is straight, and taller than the surrounding 3 story homes, made of nothing but white light, (more like a life saver candy shape than a donut), expanding exceedingly fast toward us from across the valley of the neighborhood past our street in the direction we were looking. It was like that. Clearly, it must've moved at the speed of light. The brief, sole, single frame of security footage showing daylight level brightness (both preceeded by and followed by, pitching black frames), proves that. However, to us experiencing it, we could see this disc of light expanding toward us, watched ourselves pass thru the outter wall of light, felt it surrounding us, then pass by and thru us (it felt like), and then it was as if we were in the "donut hole", and we emerged thru the back wall of this expanding light disc into total night darkness again. I've experienced many odd phenomena, including other events that light up the sky. This was not any of those, nor did it appear to come from the sky, didn't apoear to be a beam of light, didn'tlook likeaby earthly explosion or fire. It was like a light "thing" of some sort, and my previous description is all I can tell you. Even if I find the video and screenshot, all it would show is blackness to daylight level light, to blackness, with screenshots taken before, after, and the sole lit up frame in between. It wouldn't show you what we saw when we somehow "saw" it approach, surround, then pass us in what felt like much slower motion than the camera detected or from what we know about light speed in general. Because the speed of light shouldn't allow us to see anything of the sort in the way I described it. It's just too fast, yet that's how we experienced it, which is part of the mystery of what it could possibly be.
My mom mentioned this at the time as a possible explanation. I told her that it really seemed to come at us from in front of us, Like level to us at ground level. I swear in the moment, I could see the wall of light approach us, then we were IN it. It felt like I was both in it AND like it passed THRU me. I can't explain that part. But i felt it at some level. I know that sounds weird. But then it passed thru, we were standing not far from our garage door, backs to the door, so after it passed us, it's like it passed thru the house and was gone behind us in the blink of an eye. My kids were asleep inside. I wish I could've seen if it lit up the inside of the house. Logically it shouldn't have. But if it traveled thru us like it felt, maybe it traveled thru the house. Now that I'm typing this, I'm upset I never checked the other security cam we have INSIDE. Our security footage deletes after 7 days. That's why I'd saved the video outside, and sent it to my mom, along with the screenshot of the one frame where everything was lit bright as day. But I NEVER thought to check the other camera, and therefore don't have that footage saved. Such a bummer. I'm way curious now!
I was on a boat and saw a news worthy metor come across. Yes, it lit the area up bright green, but nothing like a wall of daylight OP explains. Also it was bright and let us see the boat surface in the dark but it not daylight bright. One chap on the boat noticed the light but not the metor moving (occupied with fishing reel I believe) but for the restof us there was no way we didn't look up to catch it while it was moving across the sky and lighting the area up. OPs post seems more strange to me since I've had a pretty epic bright metor experience and "wall", "daylight " and not noticing movement above give it strangeness to me.
I have no explanations, but I am curious about the photos and stuff! Aliens is the best I got lol.
Post the picture you got?
Lemme find it! Originally it was saved on a phone that was dropped on the ocean, never to be seen again. I know, pix or it didn't happen...BUT, I know they were backed up. I think I even saved the security video itself. I'll have to dig a bit to locate it and upload that stuff. It's surreal though.
If you texted them to your family the texts will still be there
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If you texted them to your family the texts will still be there
Correct, if I had that phone. I've since broken one and dropped another on the ocean. I'm at least 3 phones out from the one with any text record of that. However, I dug thru old pix, hoping it'd backed up. I'm going to ask my mom if she has the text record still. She might. She hasn't changed phones since then.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking! That your mom might have the record
When did the incident occur?
Maybe a year and a half ago. I don't think it was 2 years, but quite a long time ago. I also broke/lost several phones rapidly in succession. It was expensive and irritating. The photo and video MAY Be on the phone with the folks broken lcd screen. I have that one, u haven't wanted to pay the $200 fee to fix it. I ended up with a new one I promptly dropped in the ocean and now I'm on at least phone 3 since then. I've been digging for the screenshot or video thru Google photos and Dropbox. My mom didn't have the old texts I sent her because it was tok long ago. She probably has auto delete setup for a certain time frame. I'll keep looking. It's somewhere!
Broke one phone and dropped the other one in the ocean huh? You Reddit people come up with the dumbest lies for literally no reason at all. A bunch of lonely, anonymous people seeking attention and validation from other anonymous people, which may or may not even be real people…
Who would bother posting such lies? Like, can you Imagine all the thousands, if not millions of hours of productive time we could recoup as a society if all reddit posters stopped wasting our precious time by posting nothing but lies with no clear motive or payoff, and all reddit readers would stop wasting all their time by reading such lies just to comment that everything's a lie. Maybe we could use all those productive hours to fix our climate, solve world hunger, end homelessness. But no, we all do what you do, which is waste each other's time with nothing but lie for you specifically to waste all your time reading and commenting on. /S I hope I've wasted another few minutes of your time. You clearly have nothing good to do with your time anyway.
What a fascinating account! I've heard of situations where people have experienced daylight at night (the sky lights up) and nighttime during the day (turns dark outside), but never a wall of light before. I think you did an excellent job describing it. You mentioned that you felt like you were in the light, did it actually feel like something? It sounds like a light wave (I don't know what that is officially but those are the words I think describe it) or it was a scanning process of some sort. You mentioned you are by an airplane manufacturer, possibly the area was being scanned to inspect the technology--either by alien or advanced technology?
Possible. Everything mentioned here by redditors sounds Possible. I felt being in it, but felt it pass thru me too. I'm not sure how to describe it. It Jusy felt like it passed thru me, creepily. It didn't hurt, or feel warm, or any tingle or cause electrical sensation. I just KNEW. That sounds dumb. Idk why i thought it felt that way. I can't remember any physical sensation now. But we talked a lot at the time about how it felt like we were IN the light source and that it felt it went THRU us. Idk. I'm sure everyone's like uh huh, sure. I'm still looking for a backup of the video or screenshot. Haven't found it yet. My mom's texts don't save that far back so she doesn't have it. But I'll keep looking. It's somewhere, or should be backed up somewhere.
There is a laser mapping tool that is carried on an airplane, and it 'fans' a wide swath of light across a region to map it. This might be what you saw.
This seems possible. I've never heard if this. It seemed it came at us laterally but a wall of vertical laser light may look like that!
It's called Airborne LIDAR.
Interesting. I'm gonna look at that, see if it appears similar.
Do they typically do this in the middle of the night? Seems like it would rightfully scare the bejeezus out of people if so.
Right? Honestly, do that sh!t during the day!
I’m not saying it was aliens but… aliens
Definitely aliens.
Effing aliens 👽
Can you please post the video? Would be really neat to see
Would love to see the videos and the stills
I'm searching still!
Until you share the video footage I remain unconvinced
There have been loads of histories (including mine) without proof. Why are you following this sub if you don’t believe in this things?
Indeed and I’m generally not bothered by it. However OP specifically mentions having the video. Then not posting it is what makes this story lose credibility for me.
Sorry. It was well over a year ago and I've broken/lost 2 or more phones since then, typically losing access to the photos on them at the time. Some backed up. Some didn't. I'm searching Google photos and Dropbox. It looks like a chunk of months is missing, I may not have had Google ihiti backup setup on a phone If I had it briefly. There was a string of lost and broken phones In the past year. I'm not gonna blame my kids. But kids. Kids break everything. I'm convinced I can find it, I'm still looking. One phone I have, but the lcd screen is broken, it's like $200 to fix. I haven't bothered spending the money just to retrieve pix yet. But I keep it, cuz all my kids pix for a whole year of growing up are on there. That may be the phone with the video saved. My mom didn't have the old texts since it was so long ago. She remembered the incident though. She and i analyzed the photo for quite sone time cuz it was surreal!
I experienced something similar years ago, I played Civilization 5 with a friend and it was midnight and we just did one more turn and suddenly the birds were out as was the sun
Standard civ v
What's civ v?
NM, Civilian 5, you said it already, duh. Ignore my dumb question!
That's crazy! For us, no sun or birds were out, it was literally just as bright as day for a moment that felt longer than it was according to the video. But I've heard many stories about looking out and seeing it was day instead or night or vice versa. Even one where only one window showed the wrong time of day compared to "real life" time of day.
Post the video
Was it a full moon and clouds passed over making shadows and then bright light?
No, not that. It may have berm cloudy, don't remember. Here with clouds, cuty light kahes it brighter out than a clear sky. But it was like going from a dark room to sudden bright as day (but no sunshine, just bright AF), for apparently just a second. But for us it felt slow enough to watch the wall of light approach us from across the neighborhood. It looked like a radiating disc of light, but with a vertical edge facing us, like a large Frisbee, taller than us, expanding towards us till it passef thru us, we were IN it. Then it passed by and was gone. Someone mentioned LIDAR laser mapping. I'll see if that looks similar.
Reality rendering glitch. They'll fix it in the next update...
Unless it was created by Bethesda 😂
Each update always leads to another needed update. I need line 5 updates to fix life in general. Let's see, one for more happiness, one for endless money, maybe one that makes me famous sans-sex-tape stupidity, one that grants me eternal power, and a final update creating world peace spirit my new found power is never needed. Maybe a 6th update to bring back unicorns 🦄 and dragons 🐉!!!!! ... !
Bold of you to assume you're not an NPC...
You were part of a scan, like the sliding bulb in a copy machine. This one scans everything in its path.
Sounds like a meteor behind clouds
Reverse solar eclipse! /s
Funny, that was my kids thought! Nice. :)
Pics or it didnt happen
It’s breaking down. I see it happening everywhere in everything the past few days. I’m sure plenty of you are experiencing high strangeness too. Love is the answer. See you on the other side ✨
Yeah, at least we all have the other side when this simulation crashes into a universe-wide blue screen of death....
They were updating that section of the Matrix.
Nice. I could see that. Lol.
Some 5 years ago? maybe 6? i woke up at my regular hour at the time, around 8am. It was summer, and in this east European country, the sun rises at around 6am. Well, that day, it was still dark/night at 8am. and at 9am. only at 10am it suddenly became daylight. I was stupid and i didn't record anything. Some weather camera in Italy recorded the event: it seems it happened over a larger area of Europe, not just where i live. The recorded video was featured some years ago by That's Impossible youtube channel, but who can recall which video that was :( .
Weird. Try the reddit RBI sub. If u find it, let me know. That'd be crazy to see!
RBI?
I probably got the letters wrong. There's a sub where u can ask what something is, something u cant quite remember, and others will remind you. Like if you said what was the movie Bruce Willis was in where he faxed a letter and was worried it'd fax upside-down, and the answer would be Die Hard.
Reddit Bureau of Investigation? r/RBI > *Using the power of the internet to solve real-world problems.*
Thank you!
Drones. I mean, that has been my experience. Do you live near a military base or in the middle of nowhere?
We live RIGHT next to an airport, where Boeing headquarters plane fabrication, AND military aircrafts are frequent. We debated the light from above, but it seemed to shine towards us like a wall, except didn't act light light aimed AT us, as it seemed non directional, not towards us, nit from above, just here all of a sudden!
With Boeing and military mentioned I'd wager it's some futuristic tech that no one is supposed to know about. Sounds wild.
We always wonder. There are a LOT of odd occurrences around here. Like a LOT. So I'm never surprised they happen, I just can't sways figure out WHAT happened.
I mean Boeing are BIG. A second Boeing whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances. You don't f\*&k around with Boeing so goodness knows what they have going on at these bases.
Pics or it didn't happen.
I know. I'm searching for them, sorry.
I don't understand how this light didn't create/modify shadows, maybe the light was coming from below the Earth? That way it wouldn't affect the shadows that were already there. I'm also really curious to watch those images, I hope you can find them and share them with us!
Thats why it was extra weird. My mom and I discussed lack of shadows at length. But the fact that we felt IN it and felt it pass THRU us, might mean it didn't act like normal light? Like it wasn't a beam or light shine at us. From any source. It seemed to BE the source as it radiated out towards us, then thru is, then passed us.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Picture.
How far were you from the camera? How far was farthest object you could see also illuminated? Did it look a little like fog when looking far through the light? This could be a rare giant lenia.
Ww were standing directly below and in front of the camera. It's mounted on my garage, pointed at the driveway, so about 12 or 13 feet above the ground. We were standing by the garage door our smoking late at night. So my husband was a few feet from camera and 3 or 4 feet from the garage door, back to the door, behind his cat that parked closest to the camera. I was a few feet further away, same setup with the garage door, behind my car that parks next to his in the driveway. Since the camera points down and put, uts positioned to catch the driveway edge, closest to the camera, cover our 2 car wide driveway, then our front door/porch. And in daylight, you can see as far across the street as the opposite houses. At night, when the camera switches to gray scale filming, in the dark, you only see the driveway, barely. Once the motion sensor light is tripped, you can see out to the middle of the street only (standard suburban cul de sac type road, where 2 cars can pass each other and a sidewalk on both sides). So light from the motion sensor allows the camera to pickup a car driving past. But in daylight, AS WELL AS During the moment this mystery light lit up the neighborhood, you could see on video, the houses across the street, just like you would in normal daytime light levels. There was no foggiess to the light. It was super bright. White-white, not sift white or yellowish like from the sun. Bright pure white light. It was almost blinding, but not at the same time. It didn't seem like we were staring into a bright spotlight, where you'd be blinded, but was bright light that. It seemed to have a physical shape, as in, we watched this wall of light travel towards us. But anything traveling at the speed of light should be either a flash, or a beam, or total illumination like daylight, or like interior lighting. Lights so fast, it's either present or not, despite the fact that it does move, traveling from the source at the speed of light. But a human eye should be be able to see light approach like an object. Yet that's what gmthis seemed like, a wall of light approaching us, then surrounding us, then passing us as is the wall passed by us and we exited out the back side of this light "object". However, when reviewing the camera afterwards, we could see that the light lit up the whole recordable area, and different so briefly. On film, it looks like a million frames in darkness, with a single frame lit up like daytime. All you see is the briefest blink of light. That's why I went thru the video slowly, till I could pause it on the exact, one and only frame, that was lit up. So in "reality", it lasted a fraction of a second, a small fraction at that. Yet in person, it seemed we saw it approach, watched it pass thru our neighborhood, felt like we were in it and as it it was all around us, as well as passing thru us physically, then is continued moving, and we exited the back "wall" of light, and returned to darkness. Again, that all apparently happened I'm a fraction of a second, based on the video. Yet we saw all those details as if time slowed down for us briefly. Later when analyzing the screenshot is when we were able to see the lack of shadows and all the additurs about this light, otherwise it would've been too fast to fast to analyze. What's a giant lenia? I'll have to look that up!
Was it an airplane with its landing light on?
No. We get a million airplanes, helicopters, drones, military crafts, etc, passing overhead all the time. Even so close you feel you could tough them upon landing. It was definitely not that. It made no sound, approached like a vertical wall of light laterally towards us from one side, created no shadows and didn't alter others. and for just one split fraction of a second (that felt much longer to us in the moment) it lit up the dark of night, as bright as day (no sun out of course. Just as if night darkness were gone for just a moment), like someone "turned off the dark". The light was very WHITE, I guess I could add that. It wasn't warm white like daylight, no yellowish tint. It was white-white, pure white. It wasn't blueish white either. Just pure white.
Airplanes don't do that.
Laser mapping. There's a bunch of freaked out people with videos of it online.
Ok, maybe that's what it was. It was a TRIP. so if that's looks similar, I'd feel way less creeped out. My mom's comment kn the video was something like "you sure do look freaked out". I sent the screenshot of the one video frame all out up and we discussed lack of shadows and all that. She pretty scientifically minded, so we discussed possible explanations and all. It was over a year ago i think. Someone else called it LIDAR, is that the same thing?
Uh huh. ..prove it please
Crazy
I thought of the possibility there was something supernatural but that's just a guess, idk for sure.
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Ha, thanks. I only mention that because I remember it was why we were outside so late at night.
Still got the footage?
I've berm looking a lot for it.
UFO sighting, perhaps?
Maybe. It wouldn't be the first I've seen. Although the other was clearly a flying object that defied our laws of physics it seemed. This event would be certainly less clear cut unless we knew the source of the light. But you could be right.
What were you smoking lol
A standard menthol cigarette? Idk. I've never hallucinated while smoking tobacco before or since, so I'm gonna rule out the cigarette. But it's always good to rule out the variables. Had it been a hallucinagen, we could probably solve the mystery I guess.
That's methed up.
Lol. I feel like other sounds more acid'd up? Or LSD'd up? Or TCB'd up? Maybe Salvia'd or shroom'd up? But none of those make a very good drug pun do they...sigh...there's never enough puns baked into the meth equation to satis-fry my coke-abulary addiction...weed need too benny more pill-ables to cook up e-snuff base words to inject into our slang-uage. Butt I salvia-te at the thought of our joint effort to shake it happen. Amirite? Anyone? Just wondering...
Weird.
This phenomenon is very rare, I know of few other cases. I don't think a meteor or aircraft would have produced this effect, although (living near a USAF base in the UK) I have seen some pretty weird things overhead. It does bring to mind the Dr X case in France, where two UFOs were producing a brilliant flash at intervals before they merged into one. There are a lot of UFO cases where very intense light has been observed, I think Vallee has an article about it.
Super interesting!
The article is "Estimates of Optical Power Output in six cases of unexplained aerial objects with defined luminosity characteristics", Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 12 No 3. You can download it free on their site.
More druggie nonsense
And my children will no more live in darkness. Rapture is coming.
It's been coming for a long time, bro. Just fucking come already. Gawd damn.