A disurbing event in the North East.

reply to post by Freeborn


Ah!

Well, from having scanned that one rather quickly, if it was a viral campaign, then it was a VERY clever one indeed.

It does impress me when people come up with new and more inventinve ways of advertising something.

The thunders coming in loud and clear over here, its mostly a flash followed by 3 loud booms, i'm abour 3 miles inland so there's no fog.

One hell of a light show though

reply to post by dampnickers


The whole Dark Knight saga dragged on for quite a while here on ATS and produced some rather heated debate, largely unreasoned by both sides in my humble opinion.

When you have a few spare hours or need to seek an alternative to full frontal lobotomy have a read through the whole thread, it should prove insightful in understanding the attitude of some ATS members.

Sorry for going off topic.

reply to post by dampnickers


Hey there,

Presumably you're somewhere in/around Whitby - S'bro (I'm in KMS) and I have to say it's been very weird here too. Heavy rain since early evening ... mist (this is likely due to the fact that it's been so hot lately).

I've taken my dog out twice this evening (around 9pm and again about 1am) both times it was extraordinarily quiet ... not just a lack of cars people etc ... but very, very still in spite of the rain. When me and the dog were heading home after her second walk there was a bright white flash ... no thunder.

My dog usually freaks-out long before a thunderstorm actually hits (so I always know when ones coming) but tonight she's been fine ... even when the sky lit up with the white flash she just looked up at the sky ... calm as you like !!!

One other strange thing that happened today (don't know if it' connected in any way).

Again taking the dog for a walk (maybe I should get her bladder checked) around 10am. We pass a rundown old farm building (about the size of a large garden shed) on our way to the fields and as we got closer a 'cloud' of swallows and sparrows took off from the ruined building and floor and settle in the nearby trees.

I kid you not, there must have been at least 200 birds come off that small building ... never seen anything like it before ... and we walk that route at least once a day.

Woody

reply to post by dampnickers


Are these “flashes” localized? That is, do they cover the whole sky or is it more focused - like someone turning on a big ‘circle’ of light? Say like a big flash-bulb in the sky?

Granted I live a little further 'oop North' but still not experiencing anything here.

woodwytch, I know where you live and it's quite a bit inland from where the op is yet are still experiencing similar occurences.

Oh, and are all the N.E. members insomniacs?

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The location you have about right...

Have to say it has been a while since I was last in KMS, but I do love the place though...

Having said that it has been a while since I had an ice cream in TLD... Hope it is sunny tomorrow.

Very wierd about the birds. It's a pitty you didn't have a camera with you at the time. That would have been spectacular!

reply to post by passenger


They are strange.

I am sitting in the dark with just the monitor for light in the room.

At first it seemed as if the light were coming from directly above the house, and not the whole sky.

Afterward about ten to fifteen minutes the flashes were lighting the whole sky, then they seemed to have moved North, and were lighting up the Northen portion of the sky more than overhead - although overhead was still lighting up.

That answer your question?

reply to post by Freeborn


We are either insomniacs, or androids and do not require sleep...

Failng that, we have all come to the final realisation that sleep is for wimps!

reply to post by dampnickers


Well, mine were different in that they were during the daytime. They occurred on Sunday, July 27, at approximately 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The location was Western Pennsylvania. The sky was generally clear with some scattered, small clouds. The flashes occurred in a South Western direction, approximately 45 degrees from the Sun. They were localized in shape, i.e. round, and brief in duration but extremely intense. (Picture an intense light, about the size of the Sun, and just as bright, appearing for an instant) It caused an afterimage that lasted several minutes when viewed directly. Approximately five or six occurred within a ten minute span of time. There was no sound or other apparent effect. Incidentally, I had two other witnesses, so I know it wasn’t an imagined or pathological event.

check this forum out. Cloud ufos?!

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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reply to post by Awarenessiskey


Nope. That’s not it - at least not what I saw. They weren’t sustained or structured. They were simply flashes of light. Very bright, very intense, very localized. They appeared in various locations within a certain area of the sky. One appeared very near to a cloud but they were not clouds. They were as instantaneous as a flash-bulb. There were no other sensory effects.

The consensus of my group was that they were possibly comets impacting and flaring out in the atmosphere. We based that on a lot of ignorance and the lack of any further good ideas. One wag suggested that it was some sort of combustion of localized pockets of volatile gases, e.g. methane, (‘cause there are a lot of cows around there) caused by temperature fluctuations in the upper atmosphere and some sort of spontaneous ignition. But nobody else would accept cow-farts exploding in the sky. (those jerks)

I've been getting those too, in east tennessee. I figured that the lightning was just far away enough that I couldn't hear the thunder.

I have seen this once before in chicago. It was late afternoon and the skies were covered in CHEMTRAILS, We have all seen them in the sky, planes that have that very long white trail behind them its radium and alluminum which causes fog and rain look it up there is a abundance of info on them.

can you post exactly what this light did? ive had a similar experience which ive posted in this thread www.abovetopsecret.com...

I know that here in the US on the pacific coast (washington state to be exact) they have storms that have lightening but no thunder to be heard. We are here in a bay area and that is normal. It is happening, but you can't hear it is what I was once told.

I to live in north east england and have just came of a night shift and saw flashes of light in the sky. I was on a tab break it started with flashes with no sound but as it got closer the thunder followed. Not to mention it was on the weather forcast to expect thuner and lightening with foggy humid conditions

I love heat lightning, also the light flashes can be amplified by the dense fog. I love my green laser pointer when there's thick fog around

From uk in the south east and had similar weather here lots of lightning without thunder was kinda spooky but i just thought it was a storm so wouldnt worry.

Originally posted by Tuebor
It is common for heat lightning to flash with no thunder accompanying it .

Google is your friend

source

Lightning Without Thunder
Scattered thunderstorms often occur in hot, humid weather. Some pass overhead, bringing rain. Others may pass a moderate distance away. We see lightning forked, sheet, ribbon) and hear thunder, but no rain falls. Finally, there are storms that pass a long distance from us whose presence is only noted by their clouds and flashes of yellow-tinted lightning.

Exactly what I was going to say.

I work at a Boy Scout Camp in the summer, and this happens all the time. light rain, with flashes of lightning, and (usually a LIGHT) fog.

Where you live just happens to have a LOT of fog for some reason, I suppose.

Nothing to worry about :]

Happens here in Tennessee quite often in the summer.