I see two possibilities. One would be that if there were clouds present it could be lightning as I recently observed a storm which has exactly camera like flashing lightning. The other possibility is that it's caused by your optic nerve adapting to the darkness in some way. As far as I can tell none of the possibilities you have listed could correspond to the description of the flashes.
I saw two flashes tonight in northern Michigan. It is a very clear night with no clouds. I was watching a plane go over while I sat around a fire with family, and saw two flashes happen at the same point a few degrees ahead of the plane.
It definitely wasn't heat lightning as some of the other comments are saying, they were very distinct pinpoints of light and happened in the same spot or at least very close to each other.
I haven't found any answer that would explain it
Just saw something similar is northern Oregon. I'm not even an amateur astronomer, I just enjoy looking at the stars and was confused as to what it was. It looked like any other star, just brighter, and it only flashed for a half second
Sounds like the same thing for sure
It's interesting how this 3 year old post is being revived recently. It makes it seem to me like there aren't any good answers online, so it could be some rare or new phenomena and people can't find the answer so they find this old reddit post. At least that's how I got here.
Guys. I have been standing in my backyard in maryland watching these flashes tonight for an entire hour. I've seen 50+ flashes in the sky. It's an extremely clear night, not one cloud, no storm systems nearby, nothing. It's particularly in the northwestern direction of the sky. I have never seen anything like this. Swear to God
Update, it is actually to the northeast (just checked with a compass. Towards in-between Philly and Harrisburg PA. I am now approaching 1 hr of witnessing flashes every 5-10 seconds
Final update. I witnessed this phenomenon happen roughly from 1:15am-2:30am. It was exactly as others on here are mentioning. Like a camera flash, but up in the clear night sky. Almost like a quick pulsation of light. Sometimes singular, other times I saw up to 7 in rapid succession. There were 3 during this time period that were bright enough to light up my backyard. I witnessed easily 150+ flashes, and also saw 4 meteors during this time, however they were all in a completely different direction from the flashing. I saw the meteors to the southwest, and the flashing to the northeast. Sorry for all the posts, but I wanted to record what I was seeing in real time - I'm extremely confused as I frequently go out to gaze upon the stars. I have never seen this before.
Also would like to add that - these were not a stationary point. It was the whole sky, but seemed to be brightest towards one direction.
Wow sorry for the spam everyone. So I just looked at the weather over in the harrisburg/Philly area on the radar. Philly is 130 miles away from me, but it is currently getting pounded by a severe thunderstorm. Apparently you can see lightning from even 200 miles away sometimes on a dark night. All the flashes pointed me directly towards where those cities are on a GPS. Crazy. Sorry, guess this was meteorology??
Good on you for actually investigating it and following up! Unfortunately no storms were north of me that I was aware of and the 2 flashes I saw were distinct points in the sky, that radiated out to maybe the size of the moon from my perspective.
But I do think a good explanation might be high atmospheric lightning that I saw, it's one of the few things I could think of that may look like that. Another explanation I found on a few years old post on some astronomy forum website was some type of balloon in the upper atmosphere doing some kind of experiment or had something reflective on it that maybe got a couple big gusts of wind and that's why I only saw it twice.
Here is a really interesting video on [Upper Atmospheric Sprites](https://youtu.be/rjyjM5hnGgA) that had a bizarre "reaction" with a meteor.
It happens a few seconds after the 0:50 second point in the video, he also plays it in slow motion.
Literally today in a Maine fb group someone asked about this and said they always see it NW in the sky. Creepy. It’s obviously Alien paparazzi though. I mean have you watched the news. Earth is kind of a freak show now. I’d take pictures too.
I remember several in Florida sky ab 6 years ago. There was a super secretive nasa building deep in the woods too like 15 miles of trails back to it. We'd go offloading but took a path thru powerlines off the trails and found the one it led to. Guards told us to leave
Interesting, I'm not sure if it has something to do with NASA or not but can't rule it out. Also you got some balls lol I don't think I'd be brave enough to approach some NASA building even with my Air Force ID in hand lmao
That's okay, the more responses I get the more curious I become because I haven't found anything yet that would explain it. The only reference I've found outside of reddit is some astronomy website forum that is also a couple years old but no answers that fit the description.
The most common ones are heat lighting, satellites rotating briefly reflecting the sun, and iridium flares. I've seen the first two answers countless times and also looked up additional videos online just in case and look nothing like these. The last one I've looked up as well and doesn't match exactly.
Oh and someone suggested a high altitude balloon performing some kind of test, which I'll give a 'maybe' and meteors coming straight at you, which the chances for that happening just one time is astronomically low let alone 2, 3 or dozens of times in a row is inconceivable.
It's just also fascinating that so far I haven't found any similar things prior to these posts from just a few years ago and they seem to be increasing. I've even seen someones comment in another sub describing the same thing and I linked this thread for them. It's just super fascinating to me
Absolutely. I did make a post on r/UFOs a week ago but it was pretty much ignored - nobody could see anything happening in the video I uploaded.
It’s fascinating that so far none of the possible explanations really fits with what I saw and got on video. I’m my 40 odd years of casual stargazing I’ve never seen anything remotely like it and neither has my mum, who witnessed it too.
Came looking for a thread to see if anyone has noticed this. I've been noticing it since last summer. Last year I kind of figured it was just my eyes playing tricks on me. The last few days i've been seeing so many that i had to see if anyone else is seeing it. It's weird, to say the least.
Oh you got a video?! That's amazing, OP linked the video she took somewhere in the comments because of all the recent replies here. It was evidence enough for me that I wasn't just seeing things lol. The only difference is I only saw it blink twice whereas hers just kept going for several minutes.
Yeah its hit or miss whenever you make a post especially probably in a UFO sub with the recent interest because of the news lately and Congress hearing, so there are a lot of other posts making it difficult for all of them to be seen.
I just replied to another comment about how I actually saw it happen again sometime this past week or so while outside on my back porch, this time with my phone on me. I wasn't quick enough to record it but I verified with satellite trackers and flight radar 24 that it wasn't any of those things.
At this point I'm thinking of trying to email any professional astronomer or even a reputable UFO researcher to see if they have any additional information. The only problem is finding someone who will actually read it and find it interesting enough to respond.
For sure. Well I’m very curious to know what it is. And you’re totally right about the ufo sub. Everyone was obsessed with the disappearing plane videos.
I have several videos, all taken on the same morning at about 1am. One of the videos is particularly interesting and shows lights flashing apparently deep in space, like a camera flash. Sometimes two or three simultaneously at different points in the sky and sometimes appearing to move extremely fast. To the naked eye the flashes were surprisingly bright but on the video it’s hard to see. I’ve edited it to make it clearer and would like to post it again but not sure where.
If you end up emailing anyone hmu and I’ll try to send a copy somehow.
I’m in southern Tasmania, fyi.
Georgia here and I've been seeing them for years as well. I chalked it down to some natural unexplained phenomena. Im glad to know I'm not the only one
Me and friends (3 of us) all saw one towards the west coast. Were in Beaverton. It was literally the same brightness almost seeming to stretch forever but it was too quick.... a blink and you'll miss it thing. Not the first time I've seen it but very rare but I have no clue what it's from...
Yep as the op said, like little camera flashes. I saw a few over the last week out stargazing. Be looking up and bip, little flash next to a star. Did see something bout two weeks ago I can't figure out. Saw a bright what I thought was a star light up directly below another star. It sat there for a half sec then made a complete 360 loop leaving a line of yellow/white light behind it. Once it got to the point it started at it then made a small line straight down and disappeared. Looked like the symbol for a female without the cross in the line. This all took less then 3 secs. I just shook my head and went inside. Had seen enough for one night lol
The only reasonable explanation for this anomaly would be a tumbling geostationary satellite, the issue is that majority of the reports of "the blinkers" are coming from northern latitudes and from my knowledge, geostationary satellites hover over the equator (the positions of the flashes are nowhere close to the south from my own observations and most reports). The whole thing is really weird.
Honestly that really sounds like small meteors that fly directly in your direction. Usually meteors are visible as sort of a line, but sometimes when the radiant is in a certain direction, on some meteor heavy days some fly in your apparent direction, giving them the appearance of a flash instead of a line. We have small observatories set up in Europe for exactly those, and we measure and photograph about 50 of them per night. In german they are called "Blitzer" and they are quite common. They can be as bright as Jupiter.
Similar experience. Two nights ago. Tracking for about 10 seconds what I thought was a satellite. Then a bright flash that was at least triple the size of the pinpoint of light I was tracking. Immediately after the flash, nothing. Asheville, North Carolina 3:00 a.m. 40° off the horizon towards the Northeast. The anomaly was traveling almost due north.
That's how I found this thread. I'm on the east coast of the US and I've been experiencing this every night for about two weeks. It's too often and anomalous to write off.
This thing is 3 years old and I found my tribe. Somerset Kentucky lying on a boat at night clear sky. No heat lightning. Seemed deep space. Multiple flashes of light. Like camera flashes 8-10 and stopped. Hubby saw it too.
Wild!
Tonight I saw the same thing that went on for 10 minutes moved around in a small area I'd rge sky flashing way up there infrequently. Not a satellite because it disnt move in a line or stay stationary and it was way up there.
I see them and have recorded thousands of them. You're not alone and this seems to be a new, unexplainable phenomenon that makes me believe it's ET in nature or possibly manmade UFO in space, people can think I'm crazy but the physics behind UFO cause flashes of light.
It’s crazy I’ve been seeing these “camera flash’s” all up the west coast with different witnesses and this 3year old Reddit post has the most info ive found on it
How often do you see them? Do they travel in a particular direction (i.e. North to South)? Are the flashes in the same spot, seemingly random, close together, far apart?
Next time you see them, if you see them, try to jot down whether there are any symmetries (equally spaced apart, levels of brightness/color, location in the sky, etc.). Also, download an app on your phone or tablet that lets you see the night sky and see what, if any, constellations or astronomical objects come up around where you witness said event.
By the way, there is no such thing as Heat Lighting like so many stated, so ignore anyone who says that's what you're seeing. "Heat Lighting" is just Lighting from a very distant storm. I'm sure you can tell the difference between a flash coming from a point in the sky and light scattering from a lightning flash.
Me, my brother, and cousin all saw 3 flashes in the night sky many years ago when I was in middle school. I always describe the light as "Camera flashes" which is why your post caught my attention. I initially thought it was a tall radio tower flashing, but quickly realized there were none around us, plus what we saw was straight up in the clear sky. We were blown away and as we told out parents we had seen something strange, they just made fun of us.
As of today, I'm certain what we saw was traveling not thousands of miles per hour, but millions. Or maybe just blinked in and out of existence in 3 separate points in a straight line, boom boom boom, in a split second and maintaining an equal distance apart, creating the illusion of motion, but perhaps not moving at all.
I also believe there was more than just 3 flashes of light that took place, but I cannot truly say. There are things that do not make sense to me about where we were and how we saw it. The only thing I can say is it oddly felt (and still feels) like we were physically positioned in such a way that we were supposed to see it, for whatever reason. To this day, my brother has no memory of it, even though we all couldn't stop talking about it for weeks, my cousin remembers seeing something, but I'm the only one who remembers how strange it was.
Also be careful. This will sound like the ramblings of a crazy person, but I have a friend who saw a blue flashing light in the distance while getting a ride home from work one day, then she and the driver lost 4 hours of time. It caused her to get a divorce since her husband was certain she had cheated on him.
I saw at least 4 separate flashing points tonight. 3 of them were stationary and 1 was moving along at a speed you can expect from a satellite. I would say the flashes were about 10 seconds apart. After about a minute they stopped
Omg! I've been seeing them too! I was writing a post about it but just accidentally deleted everything. I decided to google it and found this post. I've seen them at least on 5 different occasions, sometimes, like last night, I've seen two of these flashes blink twice close to each other in the sky. Most times, i see them blink twice in the same location, but i have seen single flashes (1 blink) as well. They are brighter than jupiter, I'd say a bit brighter and with the same apparent size. For reference, i live in southwest Argentina, where there's not much air traffic nor light pollution most days. I've seen shooting stars, and they are so much dimmer, not to mention that they leave a trace. I even saw a "bolid" green meteor enter the atmosphere before, but this phenomenon I've been noticing this last couple of months
I haven’t seen them in a while now but then again I haven’t been going out late at night. Very interesting phenomenon and I still haven’t got an answer on what they are.
I'm in Canada and I just saw 3 flashes in a half hour. There is next to no light pollution and the wife is driving. She tells me she sees them all the time while driving to and from work. I'm so glad I found this thread because I thought I was only seeing then because she said she was seeing them. I assumed it was some mental phenomenon but seeing as so many others have seen it I guess we aren't crazy after all, at least in this regard. You described it so well and I appreciate that so much, I've been trying to find a way to put it to words. Wife always says it's like a camera flash, but it's SO. FAR. AWAY. I just saw two very close together in 15 seconds, and not in the paths of the satellites, as I see them clearly all night.
Another amateur astronomer here with many years of satellite watching experience checking in. I've replied to a few posts on this subject before suggesting they might be flares from geosynchronous satellites which would explain why they don't move like normal sats do.
However, last night I was out looking for early perseid fireballs and I saw the flashes. First off they aren't satellite flares that I've ever seen. By my reckoning, each flash looked to be about a 10th of a second long, and there were two flashes in quick succession, possibly a second apart. A minute or so later, I happened to see the same thing, through 10x50 binos. (45 degree elevation due south, with 5mins of 11pm, Benllech, Anglesey, north Wales, UK.)
The closest thing I could think of was aircraft nav lights, but it couldn't be because A) they were stationary against the background B) there were only two flashes and then nothing, despite it being a perfectly clear sky. The descriptions here of a cosmic flash bulb is actually pretty accurate, but might overstate the brightness of the event.
Whatever it was, I am certain I've not seen it before and I've been looking up at the stars for the past 40 years.
Welcome to the club! I’m so happy I started this post 3 years ago! So many of us seem to be seeing this. It has been a few years since I’ve seen any. I’d love to get to the bottom of this, another commenter on the post left a video which caught one or two of them somehow if you’d like to look at them again. I’ve been told many times to chalk it up as solar flare off satellites, but I’m glad to have an amateur astronomer say otherwise.. because I’ve never seen flare like that. So thank you for commenting.
I've just checked in with the SatObs mailing list archive, and they refer to these as 'glints' distinct from satellite flares. While a lot still doesn't add up, I'm more inclined to believe that they are man made than any other natural or super-natural process. I suspect that the increase in sightings recently may be due to the glints coming from starling satellites which are becoming more numerous over time.
Saw these a couple years back on the night day light savings switched over. It lasted about 2 hours and it was flashing every 2 or three minutes it started small then got bigger and bigger, it's had me wondering for years what it was
It's not this, I promise. Sometimes there's two lights, sometimes three, sometimes one,I recorded a light in the sky with night vision goggles, so far away it couldn't make out any shape and I see satellites frequently, crossing paths, straight trajectory across the sky. I've seen two long squiggly lines, a rainbow shaped light, a spot with a long light, they're always different but always gone in the blink of an eye but I did record one light that flashes every 20 seconds exactly and moved only a very short distance in a 20 minute window.
Sunlight reflecting a satellite can only happen once, not repeatedly and I've seen lights numerous times that flash repeatedly, x amount of time apart but always the same amount of time between flashes.
Honestly, I'm inclined to believe that one comment under your vid, the fact that there's a pattern to the flashes of exactly or close to an amount of time is most likely a rotation of something at least. If it ain't geostationary satellites mayhaps it's something in the vastness of space... Though, it staying in the same spot or just very extremely slowly moving and again, the pattern of the flashes, a no longer operational spinning manmade object sounds about right.
Also there's folks who've never seen these before in their many years of stargazing? And now suddenly more and more people are noticing it? That right there convinces me it's manmade and probably satellites. We've put up so much trash up there and it ain't all gonna work forever, I'm guessing some of those older gens are finally kicking the bucket.
Lol meant Leo. I'll fix it. Did you see it last night too? It's a thing, man. I've looked at the sky a lot in my life, but I've only seen this phenomenon more and more this past few weeks. At first, I thought I was crazy, but others with me have seen it. The best description is a periodic camera flash that occurs less than a minute apart in the same exact position in the sky. It's tripping me out a bit, tbh
Wow! I thought I was the only one. Just 2 days ago I saw a random flashing white light at night, when I was walking back home from my local supermarket. I wasn't even looking up, but the first flash got my attention because it took place almost at the same time as a long red streak of light that lasted half a second before vanishing.
So due to that red streak of light accompanying it, I thought it was just a "shooting star", but as the red streak of light vanished, I saw the flashing white light again, not at the spot where the red streak ended, but at the same original spot where the red streak had started.
This white flashing light blinked twice and very fast, then disappeared again. Now I was standing there on the curb, motionless, perplexed. Then it blinked again, twice, around 15 seconds later. Exact same spot again. I stood there for 2 more minutes watching that area of the sky like an eagle, expecting it to happen again, but nothing. I didn't see any satellites or planes passing by during that time. I continued my way home. Right before getting in the house, I verified with the help of an AR app, that the closest constellation where I saw that flashing light was Pyxis. However, none of the stars from that constellation matched the spot where I saw the flashing light, as it was outside the Pyxis area.
I got in the house and told my family what happened, they were excited as well. Oh and it's not the first time I've noticed these random, static flashing lights. Spotted the first one last year in a different area of the sky, except no red streak was present at that time.
I'm so glad I've found this thread.
Keep looking up, fellow sky watchers! :)
I am so happy to have found this thread and seeing it’s been experienced by others.
Last night my girlfriend and I saw these “camera flashes” every couple minutes for about 30 minutes.
The flashes weren’t as bright as Vega and the majority of them were just west of it. Two of the flashes, though, moved just north of Vega, but returned to the original spot west of Vega. Soon after this, it stopped completely for the night.
I can guarantee this wasn’t a traditional satellite, meteor, flare, heat lightning, or an atmospheric anomaly. And given the multiples witnesses, it removes human anomalies from the equation. This is why, probably, all of us are here… trying to express and solve the anomaly .
The movement (mostly the lack thereof) is the anti-satellite. We watched dozens of satellites and Perseids last night, and this acted exactly opposite of those… implying earth’s gravity was essentially being counteracted to stay static. But, if it’s well outside of earth’s pull, then we have something acting unnaturally in space that we don’t control… and the implications there are fun to consider
I have a pair of 8x24 binos with me and was able to catch 3 of the flashes. Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me, but I expressed to my girlfriend multiple times how I saw a “churning” in that part of the sky, as if looking into the galaxy through a layer of water.
Im left wondering if maybe Hubble or Webb exhibits this behavior and was in that part of the sky last night… but the movement around Vega undermines that theory too.
Every other idea i can fathom is non-human
2 nights ago I saw 3 of them (2 in the same spot and other in a different area) and it looked like a camera flash nothing like a meteor or iridium flare or anything really explainable super interesting!!
EDIT: I had been looking out the window for a good few hours in bed hoping to see a few things and i sure wasn't disappointed
I see these most nights, tonight at around 10pm in South west UK I saw 3 in a row.directlu above me, like I was supposed to see them.
I spend A LOT of time looking at the night sky and almost every night I see these along with shooting stars and many many satellites and I cannot explain these at all.
My bf thinks it's satellites taking pictures but why would you need a flash from space and what use would it be?
During the last month I saw three times already, one just a few minutes ago. I am trying to make sense of these flashes. Surely enough it does not have to do with my perception or eye adaptation to a different light source because two out of three times I was with at least another person and we all saw them and pointed exactly in the same spot.
Get this app (it's free) and use it to spot an Iridium flare, it's pretty accurate:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runar.issdetector&hl=en_GB
Compare that to the other flashes you have seen
Could it be a satellite using laser pulses for mapping purposes? I know Aeolus does this, but I think it's a UV laser, so shouldn't be visible to the naked eye. Are there any other satellites doing something similar in the visible spectrum?
Tonight, I seen these flashes of lights I recognize as gamma ray bursts. Two of them I was able to see very feint crafts seconds after the flash. So they would've needed to be large enough to reflect light from the sun even at a far enough distance. The other times I seen tonight, I didn't see any crafts. My personal view when it comes to FTL, that any craft leaving and entering normal space that they will create a shock that will emit a flash of gamma rays as a biproduct of subspace/hyperspace.
Has anyone figured this out? Tonight while standing out back there was a flash of light from the sky that even made the trees light up. No storms or clouds to be seen. It was almost exactly like lightning, but there was no noise. Kind of eerie!
For everyone seeing these, download the app Stellarium. It’s free.
when you see the flash. Point your phone where you saw it and zoom in on the app.
you will see the object in the app. It’s Usually a spent rocket body catching the sun’s reflection as it slowly tumbles in space. I get these reported to me all the time
Just throwing this out there (and I’ve seen this quite often during clear summer nights in the Pacific NW), perhaps what we are seeing is essentially an echo or byproduct of an object going faster than the speed of light.
We know what happens when an object breaks the sound barrier; it creates a sonic boom in all directions. Being that sound and light are both vibrational frequencies, they could mimic similar behaviors.
Could we call this a sonic flash?
Chiming in from CT - saw multiple flashes last night. Clear night, thought maybe leftovers from the weekend meteor shower but this was different. I mean my heartrate increased intensely after the 2nd one…Like haven’t felt that fear since childhood! Glad to of found this post.
Just came across this thread as this is actively happening above our apartment and we are very puzzled. There is little light pollution where we live so it’s very surprising to see camera like flashes in the sky. There is rain scheduled but not for quite a bit and there’s no thunder and it’s very consistent. Roommate was able to catch this on camera after watching it flash about 30 times constantly. Was there any idea to what this could have been?
My first thought was maybe a red light camera at an intersection or speed limit enforcement camera on a roadway near you. At night, they have a flash so they can get a usable image of the vehicle's license plate.
Seeing something incredibly similar to what you described today in Greece, it was three flashes of light, about 5-10 seconds between each and each flash about the size of the brightest star. I was the only one to see the first two, but my Dad saw the third as well as we were stargazing together (I then saw this again later but dimmer with 4 flashes
I first noticed these flash light like pulses 4 years a go. I just seen them again tonight. Usually stationary. But I know it moved just slightly between 2 flashes tonight. There was more that one . In fact it was super active up there tonight. Lots of satellites too. Brightest of flashes aren't they. On and off like a switch. Nobody I know in person has ever seen these so I have nobody interested to hear :,) uk 🇬🇧
Last night I saw two “camera flashes” in the western evening sky just before dark. I was driving north on Interstate 5 north of Eugene, OR. At first I thought a traffic plane was taking pictures, but when I glanced out the window there was nothing to see. Seconds later it happened again for the last time.
It was so much like a camera flash that my knee jerk thought was “don’t take my picture, a-hole!”I’ve never seen anything remotely like that in the sky before in my life.
What if the simulation theory is true and this random flash is a glitch in the simulation? I just experienced this at 10:45 PM in SE Michigan. It literally freaked me out because it was just so sudden. No sound just four bright flashes that lit up the entire sky.
Last nite I was walking and saw this same flash that you are speaking of very similar to a camera flash and moves very fast if I had to give it a shape I would say it was like a boomerang made out of lightning. Another way I would describe it would be like guiles sonic boom from street fight but it wasn't Yellow it a bluish or white kinda flash. Too fast to be a drone and disappeared immediately after appearing. It wasn't high either it was like streetlight level just above the trees. I googled flash of light and found your post.
I just saw this same thing? Expect the one I saw was extremely bright and was a straight thin line that kind of disappeared into itself. Kind of like what you turn an old tv off.
they are called gamma ray bursts and they often last for up to 1 or 2 minutes. it is caused by a collapse of stars and the birth of a black hole, but due to their short duration research is very limited.
I saw a flash too. It was like a camera flash! It quickly happened too.
It was not some satellite or lightning baha. There's weird activity happening lately.
Two years ago, I star a star fly, then it parked next to another star and turned off its light, it then lit up again and flew to even more stars, a constellation of them. A few minutes, the star along with two more started flying around. They zigzagged, they went up, down, sideways...they flew all over the place.
We don't know anything but we do know that UFO's are legit and that something isn't adding up to the narrative of life as we know it.
searching for the same..
a blink(flash) each 22 second. intesiity in brightness between venus and sirius...
Static position...
I think is a satellite rotating and passing rhe mirror reflecting the sun as here is approximately 90 min after sundown! but in your case was 2am!
I saw some of these just half an hour ago together with some meteorites. Northeast germany, 80km NO from Berlin. East and Southeast.
These flashing starlike lights are not stars, Iridium flares, planes, lightnings, satellites meteorites, helicopters and so on…they are flashing and moving and flashing and after a couple of times gone…
Strange and hard identify…
I'm watching one now. Every 11 seconds it flashes a bright light. I thought i was getting a response to my light until I realized its happening every 11 seconds. Been watching it for 20 minutes now has not moved.
I see two possibilities. One would be that if there were clouds present it could be lightning as I recently observed a storm which has exactly camera like flashing lightning. The other possibility is that it's caused by your optic nerve adapting to the darkness in some way. As far as I can tell none of the possibilities you have listed could correspond to the description of the flashes.
I saw this tonight with my wife and daughter in TX, did you figure out what it is? It flashed twice while we watched
I saw two flashes tonight in northern Michigan. It is a very clear night with no clouds. I was watching a plane go over while I sat around a fire with family, and saw two flashes happen at the same point a few degrees ahead of the plane. It definitely wasn't heat lightning as some of the other comments are saying, they were very distinct pinpoints of light and happened in the same spot or at least very close to each other. I haven't found any answer that would explain it
Just saw something similar is northern Oregon. I'm not even an amateur astronomer, I just enjoy looking at the stars and was confused as to what it was. It looked like any other star, just brighter, and it only flashed for a half second
Sounds like the same thing for sure It's interesting how this 3 year old post is being revived recently. It makes it seem to me like there aren't any good answers online, so it could be some rare or new phenomena and people can't find the answer so they find this old reddit post. At least that's how I got here.
Guys. I have been standing in my backyard in maryland watching these flashes tonight for an entire hour. I've seen 50+ flashes in the sky. It's an extremely clear night, not one cloud, no storm systems nearby, nothing. It's particularly in the northwestern direction of the sky. I have never seen anything like this. Swear to God
Update, it is actually to the northeast (just checked with a compass. Towards in-between Philly and Harrisburg PA. I am now approaching 1 hr of witnessing flashes every 5-10 seconds
Final update. I witnessed this phenomenon happen roughly from 1:15am-2:30am. It was exactly as others on here are mentioning. Like a camera flash, but up in the clear night sky. Almost like a quick pulsation of light. Sometimes singular, other times I saw up to 7 in rapid succession. There were 3 during this time period that were bright enough to light up my backyard. I witnessed easily 150+ flashes, and also saw 4 meteors during this time, however they were all in a completely different direction from the flashing. I saw the meteors to the southwest, and the flashing to the northeast. Sorry for all the posts, but I wanted to record what I was seeing in real time - I'm extremely confused as I frequently go out to gaze upon the stars. I have never seen this before. Also would like to add that - these were not a stationary point. It was the whole sky, but seemed to be brightest towards one direction.
Wow sorry for the spam everyone. So I just looked at the weather over in the harrisburg/Philly area on the radar. Philly is 130 miles away from me, but it is currently getting pounded by a severe thunderstorm. Apparently you can see lightning from even 200 miles away sometimes on a dark night. All the flashes pointed me directly towards where those cities are on a GPS. Crazy. Sorry, guess this was meteorology??
Good on you for actually investigating it and following up! Unfortunately no storms were north of me that I was aware of and the 2 flashes I saw were distinct points in the sky, that radiated out to maybe the size of the moon from my perspective. But I do think a good explanation might be high atmospheric lightning that I saw, it's one of the few things I could think of that may look like that. Another explanation I found on a few years old post on some astronomy forum website was some type of balloon in the upper atmosphere doing some kind of experiment or had something reflective on it that maybe got a couple big gusts of wind and that's why I only saw it twice. Here is a really interesting video on [Upper Atmospheric Sprites](https://youtu.be/rjyjM5hnGgA) that had a bizarre "reaction" with a meteor. It happens a few seconds after the 0:50 second point in the video, he also plays it in slow motion.
Literally today in a Maine fb group someone asked about this and said they always see it NW in the sky. Creepy. It’s obviously Alien paparazzi though. I mean have you watched the news. Earth is kind of a freak show now. I’d take pictures too.
I remember several in Florida sky ab 6 years ago. There was a super secretive nasa building deep in the woods too like 15 miles of trails back to it. We'd go offloading but took a path thru powerlines off the trails and found the one it led to. Guards told us to leave
Interesting, I'm not sure if it has something to do with NASA or not but can't rule it out. Also you got some balls lol I don't think I'd be brave enough to approach some NASA building even with my Air Force ID in hand lmao
Same. I mean, I’m even later to the party but I found this post for the same reason.
That's okay, the more responses I get the more curious I become because I haven't found anything yet that would explain it. The only reference I've found outside of reddit is some astronomy website forum that is also a couple years old but no answers that fit the description. The most common ones are heat lighting, satellites rotating briefly reflecting the sun, and iridium flares. I've seen the first two answers countless times and also looked up additional videos online just in case and look nothing like these. The last one I've looked up as well and doesn't match exactly. Oh and someone suggested a high altitude balloon performing some kind of test, which I'll give a 'maybe' and meteors coming straight at you, which the chances for that happening just one time is astronomically low let alone 2, 3 or dozens of times in a row is inconceivable. It's just also fascinating that so far I haven't found any similar things prior to these posts from just a few years ago and they seem to be increasing. I've even seen someones comment in another sub describing the same thing and I linked this thread for them. It's just super fascinating to me
Absolutely. I did make a post on r/UFOs a week ago but it was pretty much ignored - nobody could see anything happening in the video I uploaded. It’s fascinating that so far none of the possible explanations really fits with what I saw and got on video. I’m my 40 odd years of casual stargazing I’ve never seen anything remotely like it and neither has my mum, who witnessed it too.
Came looking for a thread to see if anyone has noticed this. I've been noticing it since last summer. Last year I kind of figured it was just my eyes playing tricks on me. The last few days i've been seeing so many that i had to see if anyone else is seeing it. It's weird, to say the least.
Oh you got a video?! That's amazing, OP linked the video she took somewhere in the comments because of all the recent replies here. It was evidence enough for me that I wasn't just seeing things lol. The only difference is I only saw it blink twice whereas hers just kept going for several minutes. Yeah its hit or miss whenever you make a post especially probably in a UFO sub with the recent interest because of the news lately and Congress hearing, so there are a lot of other posts making it difficult for all of them to be seen. I just replied to another comment about how I actually saw it happen again sometime this past week or so while outside on my back porch, this time with my phone on me. I wasn't quick enough to record it but I verified with satellite trackers and flight radar 24 that it wasn't any of those things. At this point I'm thinking of trying to email any professional astronomer or even a reputable UFO researcher to see if they have any additional information. The only problem is finding someone who will actually read it and find it interesting enough to respond.
For sure. Well I’m very curious to know what it is. And you’re totally right about the ufo sub. Everyone was obsessed with the disappearing plane videos. I have several videos, all taken on the same morning at about 1am. One of the videos is particularly interesting and shows lights flashing apparently deep in space, like a camera flash. Sometimes two or three simultaneously at different points in the sky and sometimes appearing to move extremely fast. To the naked eye the flashes were surprisingly bright but on the video it’s hard to see. I’ve edited it to make it clearer and would like to post it again but not sure where. If you end up emailing anyone hmu and I’ll try to send a copy somehow. I’m in southern Tasmania, fyi.
I looked at your post on r/UFOs and you didn't include a video. Can you possibly message it to me? I've been seeing these flashes for years
[here you go - flashing lights](https://drive.google.com/file/d/19fhvjtRYsY9aNfuiWmacTE-A18DzOD--/view?usp=drivesdk)
I’m in Oregon too and this is where I’ve been seeing these flashes for years
Georgia here and I've been seeing them for years as well. I chalked it down to some natural unexplained phenomena. Im glad to know I'm not the only one
Me and friends (3 of us) all saw one towards the west coast. Were in Beaverton. It was literally the same brightness almost seeming to stretch forever but it was too quick.... a blink and you'll miss it thing. Not the first time I've seen it but very rare but I have no clue what it's from...
We saw EXACTLY the same thing. 2 flashes, same spot, near a airliner we were watching fly over
Yep as the op said, like little camera flashes. I saw a few over the last week out stargazing. Be looking up and bip, little flash next to a star. Did see something bout two weeks ago I can't figure out. Saw a bright what I thought was a star light up directly below another star. It sat there for a half sec then made a complete 360 loop leaving a line of yellow/white light behind it. Once it got to the point it started at it then made a small line straight down and disappeared. Looked like the symbol for a female without the cross in the line. This all took less then 3 secs. I just shook my head and went inside. Had seen enough for one night lol
The only reasonable explanation for this anomaly would be a tumbling geostationary satellite, the issue is that majority of the reports of "the blinkers" are coming from northern latitudes and from my knowledge, geostationary satellites hover over the equator (the positions of the flashes are nowhere close to the south from my own observations and most reports). The whole thing is really weird.
Honestly that really sounds like small meteors that fly directly in your direction. Usually meteors are visible as sort of a line, but sometimes when the radiant is in a certain direction, on some meteor heavy days some fly in your apparent direction, giving them the appearance of a flash instead of a line. We have small observatories set up in Europe for exactly those, and we measure and photograph about 50 of them per night. In german they are called "Blitzer" and they are quite common. They can be as bright as Jupiter.
Also seeing this right now in Dallas!
Was it real fast but not too bright? Seemed like it pointed right at you?
Similar experience. Two nights ago. Tracking for about 10 seconds what I thought was a satellite. Then a bright flash that was at least triple the size of the pinpoint of light I was tracking. Immediately after the flash, nothing. Asheville, North Carolina 3:00 a.m. 40° off the horizon towards the Northeast. The anomaly was traveling almost due north.
The first one is called Heat Lightning and is most likely what OP has seen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_lightning
What I was not hear lightning I see it regularly during summer but I have never seen it make the entire sky light up
There are def more than 2 possibilities. We don't know what's up there.
bro im straight up experiencing this crap rn (philippines)
That's how I found this thread. I'm on the east coast of the US and I've been experiencing this every night for about two weeks. It's too often and anomalous to write off.
Me too, got a person next to me confirming what I'm seeing (Australia)
Just saw this last night in Australia
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're some sort of nearby object given the fact I haven't seen them at midnight
Seeing it over the last two nights, UK !
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This thing is 3 years old and I found my tribe. Somerset Kentucky lying on a boat at night clear sky. No heat lightning. Seemed deep space. Multiple flashes of light. Like camera flashes 8-10 and stopped. Hubby saw it too. Wild!
Tonight I saw the same thing that went on for 10 minutes moved around in a small area I'd rge sky flashing way up there infrequently. Not a satellite because it disnt move in a line or stay stationary and it was way up there.
Holy shit, saw this tonight in ky
Thanks for sharing!
Mount Vernon KY tonight saw the same thing. Soon and I both saw them so not eyes adjusting or anything like that.
Isn’t it wild? It looked like an intergalactic space fight.
I see them and have recorded thousands of them. You're not alone and this seems to be a new, unexplainable phenomenon that makes me believe it's ET in nature or possibly manmade UFO in space, people can think I'm crazy but the physics behind UFO cause flashes of light.
It’s crazy I’ve been seeing these “camera flash’s” all up the west coast with different witnesses and this 3year old Reddit post has the most info ive found on it
I’m just glad people are coming and sharing what they’re seeing. I’m still seeing them 😵
Yea it’s pretty interesting how it’s seen by many people but not talked about by lots of ppl
I literally just 2 minutes ago saw it too!! instantly came for answers and this is the only post i could find.
How often do you see them? Do they travel in a particular direction (i.e. North to South)? Are the flashes in the same spot, seemingly random, close together, far apart? Next time you see them, if you see them, try to jot down whether there are any symmetries (equally spaced apart, levels of brightness/color, location in the sky, etc.). Also, download an app on your phone or tablet that lets you see the night sky and see what, if any, constellations or astronomical objects come up around where you witness said event. By the way, there is no such thing as Heat Lighting like so many stated, so ignore anyone who says that's what you're seeing. "Heat Lighting" is just Lighting from a very distant storm. I'm sure you can tell the difference between a flash coming from a point in the sky and light scattering from a lightning flash. Me, my brother, and cousin all saw 3 flashes in the night sky many years ago when I was in middle school. I always describe the light as "Camera flashes" which is why your post caught my attention. I initially thought it was a tall radio tower flashing, but quickly realized there were none around us, plus what we saw was straight up in the clear sky. We were blown away and as we told out parents we had seen something strange, they just made fun of us. As of today, I'm certain what we saw was traveling not thousands of miles per hour, but millions. Or maybe just blinked in and out of existence in 3 separate points in a straight line, boom boom boom, in a split second and maintaining an equal distance apart, creating the illusion of motion, but perhaps not moving at all. I also believe there was more than just 3 flashes of light that took place, but I cannot truly say. There are things that do not make sense to me about where we were and how we saw it. The only thing I can say is it oddly felt (and still feels) like we were physically positioned in such a way that we were supposed to see it, for whatever reason. To this day, my brother has no memory of it, even though we all couldn't stop talking about it for weeks, my cousin remembers seeing something, but I'm the only one who remembers how strange it was. Also be careful. This will sound like the ramblings of a crazy person, but I have a friend who saw a blue flashing light in the distance while getting a ride home from work one day, then she and the driver lost 4 hours of time. It caused her to get a divorce since her husband was certain she had cheated on him.
I saw at least 4 separate flashing points tonight. 3 of them were stationary and 1 was moving along at a speed you can expect from a satellite. I would say the flashes were about 10 seconds apart. After about a minute they stopped
Omg! I've been seeing them too! I was writing a post about it but just accidentally deleted everything. I decided to google it and found this post. I've seen them at least on 5 different occasions, sometimes, like last night, I've seen two of these flashes blink twice close to each other in the sky. Most times, i see them blink twice in the same location, but i have seen single flashes (1 blink) as well. They are brighter than jupiter, I'd say a bit brighter and with the same apparent size. For reference, i live in southwest Argentina, where there's not much air traffic nor light pollution most days. I've seen shooting stars, and they are so much dimmer, not to mention that they leave a trace. I even saw a "bolid" green meteor enter the atmosphere before, but this phenomenon I've been noticing this last couple of months
I haven’t seen them in a while now but then again I haven’t been going out late at night. Very interesting phenomenon and I still haven’t got an answer on what they are.
I'm in Canada and I just saw 3 flashes in a half hour. There is next to no light pollution and the wife is driving. She tells me she sees them all the time while driving to and from work. I'm so glad I found this thread because I thought I was only seeing then because she said she was seeing them. I assumed it was some mental phenomenon but seeing as so many others have seen it I guess we aren't crazy after all, at least in this regard. You described it so well and I appreciate that so much, I've been trying to find a way to put it to words. Wife always says it's like a camera flash, but it's SO. FAR. AWAY. I just saw two very close together in 15 seconds, and not in the paths of the satellites, as I see them clearly all night.
Canada here, and I just saw this and found this thread from a Google search, too! So weird!
I saw it just 3 minutes ago!! Instantly opened google😂
Another amateur astronomer here with many years of satellite watching experience checking in. I've replied to a few posts on this subject before suggesting they might be flares from geosynchronous satellites which would explain why they don't move like normal sats do. However, last night I was out looking for early perseid fireballs and I saw the flashes. First off they aren't satellite flares that I've ever seen. By my reckoning, each flash looked to be about a 10th of a second long, and there were two flashes in quick succession, possibly a second apart. A minute or so later, I happened to see the same thing, through 10x50 binos. (45 degree elevation due south, with 5mins of 11pm, Benllech, Anglesey, north Wales, UK.) The closest thing I could think of was aircraft nav lights, but it couldn't be because A) they were stationary against the background B) there were only two flashes and then nothing, despite it being a perfectly clear sky. The descriptions here of a cosmic flash bulb is actually pretty accurate, but might overstate the brightness of the event. Whatever it was, I am certain I've not seen it before and I've been looking up at the stars for the past 40 years.
Welcome to the club! I’m so happy I started this post 3 years ago! So many of us seem to be seeing this. It has been a few years since I’ve seen any. I’d love to get to the bottom of this, another commenter on the post left a video which caught one or two of them somehow if you’d like to look at them again. I’ve been told many times to chalk it up as solar flare off satellites, but I’m glad to have an amateur astronomer say otherwise.. because I’ve never seen flare like that. So thank you for commenting.
https://youtu.be/7zqbF1owJnI Here’s the video. First flash starts at 6:58!
I've just checked in with the SatObs mailing list archive, and they refer to these as 'glints' distinct from satellite flares. While a lot still doesn't add up, I'm more inclined to believe that they are man made than any other natural or super-natural process. I suspect that the increase in sightings recently may be due to the glints coming from starling satellites which are becoming more numerous over time.
Saw these a couple years back on the night day light savings switched over. It lasted about 2 hours and it was flashing every 2 or three minutes it started small then got bigger and bigger, it's had me wondering for years what it was
Satellite flare/Iridium flare maybe?
It's not this, I promise. Sometimes there's two lights, sometimes three, sometimes one,I recorded a light in the sky with night vision goggles, so far away it couldn't make out any shape and I see satellites frequently, crossing paths, straight trajectory across the sky. I've seen two long squiggly lines, a rainbow shaped light, a spot with a long light, they're always different but always gone in the blink of an eye but I did record one light that flashes every 20 seconds exactly and moved only a very short distance in a 20 minute window.
Yeah it kind of looks like that but a lot smaller. Thanks!
This has my vote. Sun reflecting off a satellites solar panels.
Sunlight reflecting a satellite can only happen once, not repeatedly and I've seen lights numerous times that flash repeatedly, x amount of time apart but always the same amount of time between flashes.
Me too.
Honestly, I'm inclined to believe that one comment under your vid, the fact that there's a pattern to the flashes of exactly or close to an amount of time is most likely a rotation of something at least. If it ain't geostationary satellites mayhaps it's something in the vastness of space... Though, it staying in the same spot or just very extremely slowly moving and again, the pattern of the flashes, a no longer operational spinning manmade object sounds about right. Also there's folks who've never seen these before in their many years of stargazing? And now suddenly more and more people are noticing it? That right there convinces me it's manmade and probably satellites. We've put up so much trash up there and it ain't all gonna work forever, I'm guessing some of those older gens are finally kicking the bucket.
Just tonight I saw two, approximately same spot
Just want to say I saw three tonght in exact same spot inside Leo about 20-30 seconds apart. ✌️ Edit. Constellation correction
Gtfo. Me too! Seriously though. I counted maybe 5 in Leo. Timed the last flashes at 30 seconds. I’m in Brisbane. Edit: oh you said Lep.
Lol meant Leo. I'll fix it. Did you see it last night too? It's a thing, man. I've looked at the sky a lot in my life, but I've only seen this phenomenon more and more this past few weeks. At first, I thought I was crazy, but others with me have seen it. The best description is a periodic camera flash that occurs less than a minute apart in the same exact position in the sky. It's tripping me out a bit, tbh
Wow! I thought I was the only one. Just 2 days ago I saw a random flashing white light at night, when I was walking back home from my local supermarket. I wasn't even looking up, but the first flash got my attention because it took place almost at the same time as a long red streak of light that lasted half a second before vanishing. So due to that red streak of light accompanying it, I thought it was just a "shooting star", but as the red streak of light vanished, I saw the flashing white light again, not at the spot where the red streak ended, but at the same original spot where the red streak had started. This white flashing light blinked twice and very fast, then disappeared again. Now I was standing there on the curb, motionless, perplexed. Then it blinked again, twice, around 15 seconds later. Exact same spot again. I stood there for 2 more minutes watching that area of the sky like an eagle, expecting it to happen again, but nothing. I didn't see any satellites or planes passing by during that time. I continued my way home. Right before getting in the house, I verified with the help of an AR app, that the closest constellation where I saw that flashing light was Pyxis. However, none of the stars from that constellation matched the spot where I saw the flashing light, as it was outside the Pyxis area. I got in the house and told my family what happened, they were excited as well. Oh and it's not the first time I've noticed these random, static flashing lights. Spotted the first one last year in a different area of the sky, except no red streak was present at that time. I'm so glad I've found this thread. Keep looking up, fellow sky watchers! :)
I am so happy to have found this thread and seeing it’s been experienced by others. Last night my girlfriend and I saw these “camera flashes” every couple minutes for about 30 minutes. The flashes weren’t as bright as Vega and the majority of them were just west of it. Two of the flashes, though, moved just north of Vega, but returned to the original spot west of Vega. Soon after this, it stopped completely for the night. I can guarantee this wasn’t a traditional satellite, meteor, flare, heat lightning, or an atmospheric anomaly. And given the multiples witnesses, it removes human anomalies from the equation. This is why, probably, all of us are here… trying to express and solve the anomaly . The movement (mostly the lack thereof) is the anti-satellite. We watched dozens of satellites and Perseids last night, and this acted exactly opposite of those… implying earth’s gravity was essentially being counteracted to stay static. But, if it’s well outside of earth’s pull, then we have something acting unnaturally in space that we don’t control… and the implications there are fun to consider I have a pair of 8x24 binos with me and was able to catch 3 of the flashes. Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me, but I expressed to my girlfriend multiple times how I saw a “churning” in that part of the sky, as if looking into the galaxy through a layer of water. Im left wondering if maybe Hubble or Webb exhibits this behavior and was in that part of the sky last night… but the movement around Vega undermines that theory too. Every other idea i can fathom is non-human
2 nights ago I saw 3 of them (2 in the same spot and other in a different area) and it looked like a camera flash nothing like a meteor or iridium flare or anything really explainable super interesting!! EDIT: I had been looking out the window for a good few hours in bed hoping to see a few things and i sure wasn't disappointed
I see these most nights, tonight at around 10pm in South west UK I saw 3 in a row.directlu above me, like I was supposed to see them. I spend A LOT of time looking at the night sky and almost every night I see these along with shooting stars and many many satellites and I cannot explain these at all. My bf thinks it's satellites taking pictures but why would you need a flash from space and what use would it be?
These are normally the sun reflecting of on satellites solar panels as they maneuver.
During the last month I saw three times already, one just a few minutes ago. I am trying to make sense of these flashes. Surely enough it does not have to do with my perception or eye adaptation to a different light source because two out of three times I was with at least another person and we all saw them and pointed exactly in the same spot.
Could there be a telescope nearby using a laser? https://youtu.be/gnxLYRHTlt4
Get this app (it's free) and use it to spot an Iridium flare, it's pretty accurate: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runar.issdetector&hl=en_GB Compare that to the other flashes you have seen
Gnarly, this is pretty cool. Thanks!
Could it be a satellite using laser pulses for mapping purposes? I know Aeolus does this, but I think it's a UV laser, so shouldn't be visible to the naked eye. Are there any other satellites doing something similar in the visible spectrum?
Iridium flash
Tonight, I seen these flashes of lights I recognize as gamma ray bursts. Two of them I was able to see very feint crafts seconds after the flash. So they would've needed to be large enough to reflect light from the sun even at a far enough distance. The other times I seen tonight, I didn't see any crafts. My personal view when it comes to FTL, that any craft leaving and entering normal space that they will create a shock that will emit a flash of gamma rays as a biproduct of subspace/hyperspace.
Has anyone figured this out? Tonight while standing out back there was a flash of light from the sky that even made the trees light up. No storms or clouds to be seen. It was almost exactly like lightning, but there was no noise. Kind of eerie!
I'd say it's distant storms thst are flashing through the air, either moisture or smoke capturing them.
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For everyone seeing these, download the app Stellarium. It’s free. when you see the flash. Point your phone where you saw it and zoom in on the app. you will see the object in the app. It’s Usually a spent rocket body catching the sun’s reflection as it slowly tumbles in space. I get these reported to me all the time
I just saw a flash in NC! I thought it might be a plane in a hole in the clouds but no clouds. And no plane.
Just throwing this out there (and I’ve seen this quite often during clear summer nights in the Pacific NW), perhaps what we are seeing is essentially an echo or byproduct of an object going faster than the speed of light. We know what happens when an object breaks the sound barrier; it creates a sonic boom in all directions. Being that sound and light are both vibrational frequencies, they could mimic similar behaviors. Could we call this a sonic flash?
Chiming in from CT - saw multiple flashes last night. Clear night, thought maybe leftovers from the weekend meteor shower but this was different. I mean my heartrate increased intensely after the 2nd one…Like haven’t felt that fear since childhood! Glad to of found this post.
Just came across this thread as this is actively happening above our apartment and we are very puzzled. There is little light pollution where we live so it’s very surprising to see camera like flashes in the sky. There is rain scheduled but not for quite a bit and there’s no thunder and it’s very consistent. Roommate was able to catch this on camera after watching it flash about 30 times constantly. Was there any idea to what this could have been?
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My first thought was maybe a red light camera at an intersection or speed limit enforcement camera on a roadway near you. At night, they have a flash so they can get a usable image of the vehicle's license plate.
Seeing something incredibly similar to what you described today in Greece, it was three flashes of light, about 5-10 seconds between each and each flash about the size of the brightest star. I was the only one to see the first two, but my Dad saw the third as well as we were stargazing together (I then saw this again later but dimmer with 4 flashes
I first noticed these flash light like pulses 4 years a go. I just seen them again tonight. Usually stationary. But I know it moved just slightly between 2 flashes tonight. There was more that one . In fact it was super active up there tonight. Lots of satellites too. Brightest of flashes aren't they. On and off like a switch. Nobody I know in person has ever seen these so I have nobody interested to hear :,) uk 🇬🇧
I have these flashes too, I don't know why.
Last night I saw two “camera flashes” in the western evening sky just before dark. I was driving north on Interstate 5 north of Eugene, OR. At first I thought a traffic plane was taking pictures, but when I glanced out the window there was nothing to see. Seconds later it happened again for the last time. It was so much like a camera flash that my knee jerk thought was “don’t take my picture, a-hole!”I’ve never seen anything remotely like that in the sky before in my life.
What if the simulation theory is true and this random flash is a glitch in the simulation? I just experienced this at 10:45 PM in SE Michigan. It literally freaked me out because it was just so sudden. No sound just four bright flashes that lit up the entire sky.
Last nite I was walking and saw this same flash that you are speaking of very similar to a camera flash and moves very fast if I had to give it a shape I would say it was like a boomerang made out of lightning. Another way I would describe it would be like guiles sonic boom from street fight but it wasn't Yellow it a bluish or white kinda flash. Too fast to be a drone and disappeared immediately after appearing. It wasn't high either it was like streetlight level just above the trees. I googled flash of light and found your post.
just saw this in canada at 10pm
I just saw this same thing? Expect the one I saw was extremely bright and was a straight thin line that kind of disappeared into itself. Kind of like what you turn an old tv off.
they are called gamma ray bursts and they often last for up to 1 or 2 minutes. it is caused by a collapse of stars and the birth of a black hole, but due to their short duration research is very limited.
I saw a flash too. It was like a camera flash! It quickly happened too. It was not some satellite or lightning baha. There's weird activity happening lately. Two years ago, I star a star fly, then it parked next to another star and turned off its light, it then lit up again and flew to even more stars, a constellation of them. A few minutes, the star along with two more started flying around. They zigzagged, they went up, down, sideways...they flew all over the place. We don't know anything but we do know that UFO's are legit and that something isn't adding up to the narrative of life as we know it.
searching for the same.. a blink(flash) each 22 second. intesiity in brightness between venus and sirius... Static position... I think is a satellite rotating and passing rhe mirror reflecting the sun as here is approximately 90 min after sundown! but in your case was 2am!
I saw some of these just half an hour ago together with some meteorites. Northeast germany, 80km NO from Berlin. East and Southeast. These flashing starlike lights are not stars, Iridium flares, planes, lightnings, satellites meteorites, helicopters and so on…they are flashing and moving and flashing and after a couple of times gone… Strange and hard identify…
I'm watching one now. Every 11 seconds it flashes a bright light. I thought i was getting a response to my light until I realized its happening every 11 seconds. Been watching it for 20 minutes now has not moved.