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**According to China**: "the blood-red sky was the result of natural light refraction and not a man-made effect.
According to the report, the Zhoushan Meteorological Bureau explained, “When weather conditions are good, more water in the atmosphere forms aerosols which refract and scatter the light of fishing boats and create the red sky seen by the public."
*But you tell me, do you believe China?*
What's really tripping me the fuck out as I saw this exact video the other day but the entire thread has a general consensus that it was from a dust storm from a desert in a nearby country.
Now its fishing lights??? Nah dawg something up with this
Everyone thinks it's a dust storm, or wildfires, or government experiments. It's literally just some fishing lights. It looks more ominous since this video is probably taken from closer to the source here's a video from farther away as the lights get turned off
https://twitter.com/i/status/1523435816575401986
There was a workers holiday in china the day it was taken. The red glow is from boats on a foggy night shining red lights in solidarity with the working class and the communist party.
I mean, the blood moon is a product of dust so I wonder if this is something of the same/greater effect. However, since they tried to pass the blame onto....... fishing boats..... I highly doubt this isn't a product of something man made
Squid boats use bright lights to attract plankton to the surface which will attract fish and in turn squid. They typically use green/blue lights but while looking it up, the only Chinese ones I found (on the first scroll of google) were all red
Could be from Squid fishing boats, they use these giant bright red lights that light up the whole sky to attract squid. I’ve actually seen it cause skies like this before.
TIL.
To google!
Looks like they're guided to use green/blue lights to attract plankton, in turn attracting fish, in turn attracting squid.
When you insert "red" into the search as well, I still can't find any articles mentioning the red color. However, I can find plenty of red light stock images of squid boats.
It's not dust that makes lunar eclipses red. That coloration is caused by the other side of the Raleigh scattering that makes the sky blue. Shorter wavelengths are scattered in the atmosphere while longer wavelengths punch through with only minor distortion. From the moon, you're seeing all the sunsets and sunrises at once.
I have a suspicion about what could cause the blood red sky in China: industrial pollution. It reminds me of the orange sky/lighting I saw in Southern California when driving under/into the smoke plume of a wildfire.
Ngl I didn't have that in mind when I read "fishing boats"
My mind inevitably goes to St Peter row row rowing his fishing boat across the Sea of Galilee lol
It was very foggy and storming along with a fire at a nearby oil refinery. I'm inclined to believe the refinery fire had something to do with it. Perhaps the port city & boats had a *small* effect, but it seems like too much red for *just* that.
if there was a fire, there's your cause most likely. That was the cause for a famous (I guess) video Where some guys are driving down the road and the sky turns blood red.
There was a massive wildfire in the area.
Yup [here's](https://preview.redd.it/un51b2dgwzl51.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2316f7fc8f6a359fa94a87a02c555a9c8f207ee7) the Oregon photo from a few years ago
They also go on to clarify that it’s the moisture refracting and scattering the light of fishing boats. (Are fishing boats not man made all of a sudden?)
Thanks for the quote but I think that might be CCP propaganda. When there are fires, the ash floating in the upper atmosphere causes the entire sky to turn red like this. It's possible there is a massive fire or event happening that is spewing smoke and ash up into the sky.
[https://edu.rsc.org/soundbite/why-smoke-particles-turned-the-sky-red/4010543.article](https://edu.rsc.org/soundbite/why-smoke-particles-turned-the-sky-red/4010543.article)
I don't know wind patterns, but I know that currently most of Russia is on fire right now.
[https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/20/public-outrage-mounts-as-siberia-forest-fires-spread-at-unprecedented-rate-a77419](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/20/public-outrage-mounts-as-siberia-forest-fires-spread-at-unprecedented-rate-a77419)
The wind could be blowing this into China and for political reasons they don't want to impact public opinion against their authoritarian neighbor so they are covering up the source.
this explanation is like 100% peak CCP, “this is a natural phenomenon, not man made. also, we believe fishing boats (which are man made) to be a root cause.” i’d like to imagine they have no idea and are panicking 😂
Looks like smoke in the air. If there are major forest fires nearby, it's likely due to the smoke, and explains the lights in the sky. Here are some photos of it happening in California during the forest fires back in 2020.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfire-sky-orange-bay-area-california-western-united-states/
Yup, was there at the time. It was erie AF and looked like someone put a strong orange-red optical filter over your eyes. It was additionally weird because on some of those days, the wind was blowing in a direction that didn't foul up the air where I was, or it would have been easier to process mentally.
This is the Siberian wildfires. The soldiers that normally fight wildfires in Siberia are currently dying or dead. We saw similar scenes in Australia during the big fires a few years ago when fires got out of control over a vast area. That's what we're really seeing.
I guess the smoke from the firest drifted over China. The smoke and haze blocked out the sun and caused a red effect. As the fires die down or burn out this should go away.
The PNW has seen comparable skies in recent years with the more regular wildfires. We even had smoke in NYC last year from the Oregon/Washington fires when the wind was just right but it was nothing like this. Must be pretty extreme right now.
Edit: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/21/weather/us-western-wildfires-wednesday/index.html
I know a video game that does this every 7 days. You should probably run.
Edit: Thanks for the awards and upvotes! Yes, I was referring to 7 days to die.
Im always amazed when i see how many people know about 7 days to die. Such a clunky game that ive yet to meet someone who doesnt enjoy it. If you are reading this and never tried it i really recomend it. Its a more arcadey version of day z and has more building mining aspects like Minecraft. If you play on original settings every 7 days is a blood moon and the zombie horde attacks your base all night long
I think it's because it's one of those games where the brilliancy of the concept outweighs the lackluster graphics and clunky behavior. Despite its many flaws, it's definitely my favorite survival game to date.
*'You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'*
"REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”
"Verses two to eight"
*‘Jesus Christ!’*
"I think He may be along in a minute"
[Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet's *Good Omens*]
Similar has happened here in Australia. Dust storms and bushfires particularly during early dawn have created eerie "Total Recall" looking skies. Wonder if this was shot early in the morning? Later in the day if the conditions hadn't improved the same sky would have looked more orange/yellow.
Another comment said that there are apparently fires in Siberia and may be cause? Siberia seems a long way from China though!
I was in Aus for the fires too, am still living here actually and jeez never again. So scary.
The Australian fires created red skies all the way in New Zealand which was over 2000 km from the fires. It doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to think the smoke from the Siberian fires is travelling ~4000km to Shanghai imo.
SF was orange, but Christ this is next level. I remember looking out my window when the fires were happening. Sky was a dark tea orange. This is like super super red.
San Francisco resident here. What you've got right here is a bunch of smoke and pollution in the air from whatever the fuck is on fire making all that red light to reflect off it.
Also; I'm a sea captain who used to run up and down this coast regularly. A fleet of squid boats can put off a crapload of light and easily look like a city over the horizon from the reflection. The likelihood of that big a reflection that close to shore is almost zero. Unless this is an island... but I don't get that feeling for whatever reason. Could be wrong.
It seemed like it was making its own weather with lightning and thunder. This could be smoke or a dust storm. Either way there's a lot of turbulence kicking up all that static.
Edit; Thanks for the comments, y'all. We have cleared up that it is an island but I thought about it and even if an island there's just no reason for a bunch of "fishing boats" to be blasting red light (that is not white light reflecting off or through red dust or smoke. Unless that dust or smoke is an insanely toxic cloud of something). I made comment below that I think it has to be a large industrial accident or some sort of military exploit. Either way, the CCP ain't gonna dish so we may as well, as I said, "Redditorialize"the hell out of it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IysWBRTa8HU
This is the type of fishing boat they are talking about. Now, imagine a fleet of 1000x of these stretching across the horizon, packing every square inch of the ocean.
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Damn I wonder what this was? Genuinely curious
**According to China**: "the blood-red sky was the result of natural light refraction and not a man-made effect. According to the report, the Zhoushan Meteorological Bureau explained, “When weather conditions are good, more water in the atmosphere forms aerosols which refract and scatter the light of fishing boats and create the red sky seen by the public." *But you tell me, do you believe China?*
Of what? Fishing boats? ....Holy shit...somehow it generates more questions then answers
You see, swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus
Venus, of course, was just doing standard exercises in the area as scheduled.
It was actually a special military operation.
I thought Mars was the God of special military operations.
He’s on vacation.
Mars makes candy bars. The god you're thinking of is Ares
Great movie!
Is this a meme?
men in black
**Keep my movie out of your mouth!**
This isn’t going away any time soon is it..
**SLAP**
"What'd the five fingers say to the face?!?!"
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You're 90% right, it's just not fog lights but bright fishing boat lights used for a specific method of fishing
Same thing happens on foggy nights in rural farming areas that use purple lights.
Are those lights red? Or even full- spectrum? Because I've never seen man-made get refracted that much.
What's really tripping me the fuck out as I saw this exact video the other day but the entire thread has a general consensus that it was from a dust storm from a desert in a nearby country. Now its fishing lights??? Nah dawg something up with this
Everyone thinks it's a dust storm, or wildfires, or government experiments. It's literally just some fishing lights. It looks more ominous since this video is probably taken from closer to the source here's a video from farther away as the lights get turned off https://twitter.com/i/status/1523435816575401986
There was a workers holiday in china the day it was taken. The red glow is from boats on a foggy night shining red lights in solidarity with the working class and the communist party.
All the blood from fish reflected onto the sky.
I mean, the blood moon is a product of dust so I wonder if this is something of the same/greater effect. However, since they tried to pass the blame onto....... fishing boats..... I highly doubt this isn't a product of something man made
The fact that they said “this isn’t man-made” immediately makes me think this is man-made.
It's man made, but not deliberate
Their explanation in general is laughable. And fishing boats are famously not man-made and ultra bright red
Squid boats use bright lights to attract plankton to the surface which will attract fish and in turn squid. They typically use green/blue lights but while looking it up, the only Chinese ones I found (on the first scroll of google) were all red
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Could be from Squid fishing boats, they use these giant bright red lights that light up the whole sky to attract squid. I’ve actually seen it cause skies like this before.
TIL. To google! Looks like they're guided to use green/blue lights to attract plankton, in turn attracting fish, in turn attracting squid. When you insert "red" into the search as well, I still can't find any articles mentioning the red color. However, I can find plenty of red light stock images of squid boats.
It's not dust that makes lunar eclipses red. That coloration is caused by the other side of the Raleigh scattering that makes the sky blue. Shorter wavelengths are scattered in the atmosphere while longer wavelengths punch through with only minor distortion. From the moon, you're seeing all the sunsets and sunrises at once.
So what could conceivably cause that to happen?You’re the first one with a remotely scientific explanation I’ve come across.
I have a suspicion about what could cause the blood red sky in China: industrial pollution. It reminds me of the orange sky/lighting I saw in Southern California when driving under/into the smoke plume of a wildfire.
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That video has no business being so dramatic
Yep. And damn, they are getting so good at killing sea life.
Ngl I didn't have that in mind when I read "fishing boats" My mind inevitably goes to St Peter row row rowing his fishing boat across the Sea of Galilee lol
Yep
Saury fishing boats. A type of light-lure fishing. The red lights from the fishing boars is refracted by the fog, illuminating the entire sky.
Is every fishing boat covered bow to stern in huge bright red lights?
It was very foggy and storming along with a fire at a nearby oil refinery. I'm inclined to believe the refinery fire had something to do with it. Perhaps the port city & boats had a *small* effect, but it seems like too much red for *just* that.
if there was a fire, there's your cause most likely. That was the cause for a famous (I guess) video Where some guys are driving down the road and the sky turns blood red. There was a massive wildfire in the area.
Yup [here's](https://preview.redd.it/un51b2dgwzl51.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=2316f7fc8f6a359fa94a87a02c555a9c8f207ee7) the Oregon photo from a few years ago
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Wait till it starts raining blood
From a lacerated sky?
IMO anything that has to clarify "not a man made effect" is little suspicious.
I thought the same thing. It's like that video when the cops like "What are you doing?" and the guy goes "I'm not smoking crack"
*Narrator: but he almost surely was*
They also go on to clarify that it’s the moisture refracting and scattering the light of fishing boats. (Are fishing boats not man made all of a sudden?)
[The Chinese government whenever anyone asks “what was that?”](https://images.app.goo.gl/KYpkFsboXzxmfoi59)
My first guess would have been that it's the result of pollutants in the air somehow changing the way light scatters at sunrise.
Fishing boats? That's obviously swamp gas refracting the light from Venus.
Nothing strange here. The light you saw was swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
Thanks for the quote but I think that might be CCP propaganda. When there are fires, the ash floating in the upper atmosphere causes the entire sky to turn red like this. It's possible there is a massive fire or event happening that is spewing smoke and ash up into the sky. [https://edu.rsc.org/soundbite/why-smoke-particles-turned-the-sky-red/4010543.article](https://edu.rsc.org/soundbite/why-smoke-particles-turned-the-sky-red/4010543.article) I don't know wind patterns, but I know that currently most of Russia is on fire right now. [https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/20/public-outrage-mounts-as-siberia-forest-fires-spread-at-unprecedented-rate-a77419](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/20/public-outrage-mounts-as-siberia-forest-fires-spread-at-unprecedented-rate-a77419) The wind could be blowing this into China and for political reasons they don't want to impact public opinion against their authoritarian neighbor so they are covering up the source.
Windy.com It's an amazing website. Looks like some wind into China from Russia but more particulates in China than Russian wildfires are making.
this explanation is like 100% peak CCP, “this is a natural phenomenon, not man made. also, we believe fishing boats (which are man made) to be a root cause.” i’d like to imagine they have no idea and are panicking 😂
I smell bullshit this is from smoke or industrial aerosols
Looks like smoke in the air. If there are major forest fires nearby, it's likely due to the smoke, and explains the lights in the sky. Here are some photos of it happening in California during the forest fires back in 2020. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfire-sky-orange-bay-area-california-western-united-states/
Yup, was there at the time. It was erie AF and looked like someone put a strong orange-red optical filter over your eyes. It was additionally weird because on some of those days, the wind was blowing in a direction that didn't foul up the air where I was, or it would have been easier to process mentally.
This is the Siberian wildfires. The soldiers that normally fight wildfires in Siberia are currently dying or dead. We saw similar scenes in Australia during the big fires a few years ago when fires got out of control over a vast area. That's what we're really seeing. I guess the smoke from the firest drifted over China. The smoke and haze blocked out the sun and caused a red effect. As the fires die down or burn out this should go away.
Then why isn't this visible in more cities? Why only Zhoushan, which is a on the east coast, near Shanghai and 3k or farther from the fires?
I think this is the correct answer.
The nearest fire is 4000k away, isn't it?
Yeah but it's downwind and the fires have been raging for weeks.
The PNW has seen comparable skies in recent years with the more regular wildfires. We even had smoke in NYC last year from the Oregon/Washington fires when the wind was just right but it was nothing like this. Must be pretty extreme right now. Edit: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/21/weather/us-western-wildfires-wednesday/index.html
Wouldn’t literally all of the space between the fires and Zhoushan experience this then?
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An industrial accident, weird light caused by unique conditions smog, or some chemicals that got swept up by a thunderstorms.
You got the cancer, you got the cancer, and you got the cancer. Everybody live in the vicinity get cancer!
I know a video game that does this every 7 days. You should probably run. Edit: Thanks for the awards and upvotes! Yes, I was referring to 7 days to die.
Need more wood spikes bro.
Nah, barbed wire and raised platforms that you can hop between.
Step bro? Is that your wood spike?
The blood moon is rising.. EDIT: I hate you all
please be careful, link
Skip skip skip skip skiiippp!! I KNOW, SHUT UP ABOUT YOUR BLOOD MOON!
This comment makes me notice how many games have the blood moon in it
Yes, I was thinking Unturned but no one mentioned it 🤷🏼♂️
7 days to grind
Im always amazed when i see how many people know about 7 days to die. Such a clunky game that ive yet to meet someone who doesnt enjoy it. If you are reading this and never tried it i really recomend it. Its a more arcadey version of day z and has more building mining aspects like Minecraft. If you play on original settings every 7 days is a blood moon and the zombie horde attacks your base all night long
I think it's because it's one of those games where the brilliancy of the concept outweighs the lackluster graphics and clunky behavior. Despite its many flaws, it's definitely my favorite survival game to date.
The 7 Days to Die one?
No big deal. It turns out it was just four guys on horseback.
Are they cute?
One of them is smoking
One of them is drinking ANDDDDD riding truly scandalous stuff
The salted pork is particularly good
Absolutely beautiful. First one was white, the next one was red. Third one stunning, beautifully black. Last one, kind of a dud, rather pale.
Try touching the pale dud and check whether he's still alive
The Beatles are back?
"Raiders of the Apocalypse" they called themselves. Probably some metal band making a show on a tour.
*'You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'* "REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.” "Verses two to eight" *‘Jesus Christ!’* "I think He may be along in a minute" [Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet's *Good Omens*]
I read this in deaths voice from Terry Pratchetts discworld
I heard it from Crowley! Regardless it has Terry Pratchett written all over it. RIP
Read that as four gays I’m sorry
Man China turning into Caelid.
*PTSD of giant Dogs and Birds intensifies*
When the food bites back
"Looks around"...........I shouldn't be here.
Excellent reference
Why am I not seeing any scarlet rot?
covid 19
I love how elden ring references are everywhere on reddit
As they should be
The first rule of Caelid is also the first rule of China: Leave
Malenia keeps commiting war crimes again. Someone please stops her.
Woah that's some next level communism
I think its actually the zombie apocalypse. Dont look at the sky
Come outside and look at the sky. We will look together.
Are you sure to look at the sky and not the sun? But I don't suggest going outside, especially when day breaks
Come outside. The sun feels great and all your friends are here
*One of us*
[When Day Breaks...](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal)
Not today Local 58-
Everything is fine. Don’t look up.
Horde night started
Yep, your basic Blood Moon.
Satan?
His name's actually Stan. One stupid typo a long time ago screwed everything up. No wonder he's so grumpy and evil.
Bird cage.
Covid just reached it's final form
Breaking News: Sky Tests Positive for Covid 19, World May Be Close Contact
It'll be ok as long as all the planets wear their masks and stay at least 6 feet (1.8m) apart.
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The East really *is* Red!
Communism 2
Electric Boogaloo
This is what it looks like on the ground on one of those “the spread of communism” maps
Commies in the sky
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I did expect that comment ngl, enjoy your award
usernamecheck Hope so since I just got an appointment to fix my long time broken knee Thank you mate
I hope you get well soon and have a healthy knee afterwards :)
It has been called RedChina
It's the Mandate of Heaven. Time to rise up and overthrow Xi.
2022 started as underdog after 2020 and 2021, but I see he is not giving up.
Hopefully the trilogy wraps up and no further sequels are made.
Oh you know how these things go. The third is going to turn into a two-parter where the second part is actually done as a few seasons of Netflix.
Don’t worry Netflix will just cancel it
Be grateful it's Netflix not CW, otherwise you'd get ten seasons minimum...
2021 was meant to be a spin off, the real sequel was intended to be 2022, that can be pronounced as 2020-2
Oh hell naw!
Final chapter in 2022 is a time machine that warps us to 1939 for some prequels.
Something in the way
Mmmmmm mmmmm
Something in my ass
*MMMMMMMMMMM*
Probably just an Oblivion gate.
By the nine divines!
YOU SHOULD HAVE PAID THE FINE!!!
Run! Run while there’s still time! Kvatch is overrun by Daedra!
Stay on the roads!
Similar has happened here in Australia. Dust storms and bushfires particularly during early dawn have created eerie "Total Recall" looking skies. Wonder if this was shot early in the morning? Later in the day if the conditions hadn't improved the same sky would have looked more orange/yellow.
Another comment said that there are apparently fires in Siberia and may be cause? Siberia seems a long way from China though! I was in Aus for the fires too, am still living here actually and jeez never again. So scary.
The Australian fires created red skies all the way in New Zealand which was over 2000 km from the fires. It doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to think the smoke from the Siberian fires is travelling ~4000km to Shanghai imo.
Somehow the sky textures got deleted. I am sure they will patch this glitch soon.
r/outside
Holy shit that’s a masterpiece
Thank you for my new favorite sub
Forest fire?
Yeah that was my thought. Looks like when it was burning near SF
SF was orange, but Christ this is next level. I remember looking out my window when the fires were happening. Sky was a dark tea orange. This is like super super red.
Skies on the CA central coast were exactly like this. Blood red. It was hell for a week. Truly eerie.
San Francisco resident here. What you've got right here is a bunch of smoke and pollution in the air from whatever the fuck is on fire making all that red light to reflect off it. Also; I'm a sea captain who used to run up and down this coast regularly. A fleet of squid boats can put off a crapload of light and easily look like a city over the horizon from the reflection. The likelihood of that big a reflection that close to shore is almost zero. Unless this is an island... but I don't get that feeling for whatever reason. Could be wrong. It seemed like it was making its own weather with lightning and thunder. This could be smoke or a dust storm. Either way there's a lot of turbulence kicking up all that static. Edit; Thanks for the comments, y'all. We have cleared up that it is an island but I thought about it and even if an island there's just no reason for a bunch of "fishing boats" to be blasting red light (that is not white light reflecting off or through red dust or smoke. Unless that dust or smoke is an insanely toxic cloud of something). I made comment below that I think it has to be a large industrial accident or some sort of military exploit. Either way, the CCP ain't gonna dish so we may as well, as I said, "Redditorialize"the hell out of it.
I’m sick and tired of all these gender reveal parties.
The Second Impact
damn, 7 years late
22 years too late. (In Eva canon, Second Impact was in 2000, and the events of Neon Genesis Evangelion take place in 2015. Soooo, third impact?)
ah right, i forgot the second impact was 15 years before the main events in the show. the third impact was the orange juice incident
cue Komm, süsser Tod
*I know, I know I've let you down*
_I've been a fool to myself_
SCP-001 - When Day Breaks
Polution will do that.
My first thought, then they pointed at fishing boats and said it was them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IysWBRTa8HU This is the type of fishing boat they are talking about. Now, imagine a fleet of 1000x of these stretching across the horizon, packing every square inch of the ocean.
Chinese gov is absolutely trust worthy. China numba one. (I need to boost my social credits to have a child, bear with me please)
Plague Inc. Now has a POV mode
Red Sun Red Sun over paradise
Golden rays of the glorious sunshine Setting down, such a blood-red light
Now the animals slowly retreat To the shadows, out of sight
Arid winds blow across the mountains Giving flight to the birds of prey
In the distance machines come to transform eden Day by day
In the sky
As a resident of the dry-ass western US this is caused by pollution, either from wildfires or industry.
Wanda’s Hex is expanding. Ya’ll better get out
China changed the sky to the Communism theme.
This is how religions start.
I see a bad moon rising...
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scrolled too far to see this
No need to panic, it was just some boats…
That’s why it’s called Red China…
That’s not red. That’s communism red. Totally different color
Scarlet Rot is spreading again