Sky went dark for about 6 seconds..

There was a darkness similar to this in the northeastern US in the 1800's. It is widely speculated this was caused by a massive forrest fire in Canada.

CERN comes to mind...

On August 9th, protons will be piped through LHC magnets for the first time. --BBC News


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Im not sure what happened. Any one find out if it could of been a large sunspot? Could a huge sunspot do such a thing? Just curious questions.


EDIT: I haven't been able to find anything big at the SOHO site either.

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Nibiru? Planet X? 2012? Polar shifts? Passage through galactic plane? LOL, Im just playing, but who knows.

These days, things are becoming more strange. Reports of the weirdest things have been happening. I for one know something big is going to go down in the near future, and all of man kind will need the help of each other and the help of all God's from all faiths.

reply to post by Essan


You do know that the equator is zero and the latitudinal lines increase in either direction, therefore Toronto is south of London in terms of latitude.

sorry folks - but threads like this are simply are a sad exaple of people wearing thier ignorance on thier sleeve

and ATS is filling up with them

other people who think the moon has ` disapeared ` or express amazement that it is visible in day light hours

and all i can say is - you are clearly not fit to be left unsupervised

and yes - that is a scathing insult directed at many ATS members

but i stand by it - because your own threads / posts show such utter ignorance of basic science that the quip of my mate orangetom ring in my ears " public education ?" - i once took him to task over that remark - but now i agree with it 100%

but back to this thread , some of the " explainations " offered as post " analysis " are worse - people are seeing ` conspiracy ` in every single event

and atributing near magical powers to the " evil NWO " they claim is behind it all

we now have multiple threads on the " issue " that heavy cloud makes it temporarily apear darker

FFS - you have only just noticed this ????????????????

Prehaps,Ignorant Ape,this is why these threads are being posted. Because people aren't as thick as you think they are,and they do know what it's like when a cloud makes it go dark. We all know this,we've all seen it a thousand times. So,one would presume that this is something different,something odd. like it going dark when there's only a lite cloud cover. That would be strange,and worthy of note. As you didn't see it with your own eyes,then it's a little harsh to jump in and slag off a load of people you've never met. Just my 2 penneth.

reply to post by Anonymous ATS


Exactly...the whole sky went dark, unnaturally so.

I am well aware and perceptive of light values, being that I am a professional artist (painter) and an accomplished photographer.

I spend an hour or two reading every morning and have done for years and as I said in my previous post I could hardly see the book for a few minutes. I wouldn't have bothered posting had this not been such an unusual experience.

I don't know what caused it, but it was such a pronounced and unnatural darkness that the obvious cloud bank theory (of which there were none on such a bright sunny morning) seems not to explain it.

Would love to know what happened!?!

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really ??

ok - lets see if any news of this monumentous and unusual even appears in the next edition of the Eastbourne hearld shall we ???????????

ore is every one else in the area just a dumb sheeple - and only ` aware ` ats members are " smart enough " to notice these events

infact can anyone in the eastbourne area take note of any press coverage of this - be it print , teevee or radio - and log the chanel and show - then the extent of this can be verified

because so far we have one ats member - [SNIP]

if other people and the authorities noted and reacted to this event - then i will give the cause some consiferation

but with one person reporting it - [SNIP]

Mod Edit: Removed Insults
Civility and Decorum are Required


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reply to post by Anonymous ATS


Oops, well it was Sunday and my brain wasn't switched on!


Anyway as for the cause of this sudden darkening - all we know is that it was a very localised event - indeed the OP states at the very beginning that the nearby South Downs were not affected. So the cause would have to be something coming between the OP and the Sun causing a temporary, local darkening.

The same thing happend where I live in the UK too, enough for me to think "what the hell was that?" - I was half asleep at the time but I do recall thinking to myself, that it went from nighttime to daylight extremely quick.

I thought nothing of it until I saw this thread, just thought it was a dream or something. I immediately thought, I bet they've just activated the LHC.

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Lol Ignorant

Have you even read this thread>?

There are quite a few people saying they saw the same thing and I'm sure if you went on other web forums such as this one that you will see people noting the same experience.

To be honest your view relates to your name.

Click here for more information.

Just remember that not everything which is witnessed and is out of the ordinary is reported in the media. Why? because either they deem it not worthy to generate interest or it's something which is not wanted to be widley spread by someone.

Also good job at insulting everyone - the way you speak about stupidity, you must be a freaking genious.



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reply to post by Axzion


As someone else has already said this sort of reminds me of Independence Day But the other thing it reminded me of was the film The Trueman Show, just when you mentioned like the sky looked like it had almost "cracked"

Originally posted by theukman
Well when I read this a shiver ran down my spine, a few nights ago I had a real wierd dream, kind of a nightmare. Now I havn't had a nightmare for years ( since a child) but this one felt so real, it was if I was fealing real emotion. Stick with me here I do have a point. The dream was that a dark patch appeard in the sky, but it was not just a dark patch but a tare in reality to another dimention, and through this "Portal" was coming the wierdest stuff. From animals never seen before to the living dead along with lost loved ones who never even recognised me. Now the "Portal" wasn't like a open door but just a patch of darkness in the sky and eveything underneath was in shade but everywhere else was still lit up from the sun.

I am not in any way saying that I had a premenition but reading this brought the dream flooding back to me and sent a shiver up my spine.

This is so strange I can't believe I have just read your post, I had the same dream, I swear on my partners life I am telling the truth. I had a vivid dream I was outside and then complete darkness. I turned round and said to whoever I was with (in my dream) whats happening, then a brilliant flash, like a nuclear bomb or something similar and then I woke up with a bang! very strange and very odd you had the same dream of darkness, what is going on, so much strangeness in the last few weeks.

reply to post by franspeakfree


Someone else has a daughter that had a pretty similar dream.

www.belowtopsecret.com...

she was at her grandmothers farm with a few family members and they heard a almighty bang everyone was startled and her aunt started crying and everyone huddled together she looked at the calender on the wall it showed the date of 13/08/08. it was dark out side and she went out and looked at the sky she saw stars faintly in the sky next minute she said that a bright white whirlpool appeared in the sky and started to suck the stars into it, she could see through the other side and saw people looking up at it screaming and being sucked in buildings cars, a carnival that was happening somewhere just disintegrating. earthquakes over the world.
she then said that there was triangle ships in the sky and that we where trying to get supplies and store food and making hideouts.

Originally posted by ignorant_ape
if other people and the authorities noted and reacted to this event - then i will give the cause some consiferation

If you can't add anything constructed then please don't say anything at all, people on ATS come and share their information, or views in order to learn and understand and be part of a community. Your quote above just makes you sound arrogant.

It is happening then. It is some sort of very rare natural phenomenon that opens up portals. There is great danger here, in that hostile aliens can land on earth through these portals. It is H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds one step closer. The rider on the pale horse has landed, and like in the novel, a fair part of the world's population will be annihilated before the aliens succumb to earthly virus. H. G. Wells was not just writing a novel when he wrote this book - it was prophesy.

I was just looking at the time lapse movie from the website pasted earlier:

sv.berkeley.edu...


At 1.10 there's a dark streak flying from center to left, just below the horizon.


Is this a plane?

edit: hmm, just after that, two things appear to go the other way, I'm thinking boats?

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