Clouds outside my house were just glowing and pulsating. Video included.

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Originally posted by stopbeingnaive

Originally posted by EnochWasRight
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I've seen this before. Low cloud cover and an emergency vehicle casting its light above.

edit on 19-11-2012 by EnochWasRight because: (no reason given)

That's exactly what I thought. That's what bothers me most about this site too many of you want so desperately for the most minute events to be something incredible. This forum is full of some of the most ignorant and gullible people, not to mention biggest liars, I have ever seen.

I find this thread to be very interesting, the possibilities are tickling my brain.

Really...who is being gullible and ignorant?

Only real landmark in that direction is Newark airport.

I would say its coming from the ground, maybe the airport.

Have seen similar effects over Melbourne when there is low cloud cover, part of sky glows blue from lights at the top of The Rialto (highrise building) and other parts of the sky might glow red from lights at the top of Eurika Tower.

There are also flashes of orange due to certain times at the Crown Casino where they have around 6 towers about 10m high 50m apart along the Yarra river where bursts of flames come out of the top, This also illuminates the low cloud cover and in a pulse fashion but not as frequent as in your video.

If not ground based which it certainly does look like from your video, good suggestion as another poster made is send your vid to a meteorologist.

Originally posted by Witness2008

Originally posted by stopbeingnaive

Originally posted by EnochWasRight
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I've seen this before. Low cloud cover and an emergency vehicle casting its light above.

edit on 19-11-2012 by EnochWasRight because: (no reason given)

That's exactly what I thought. That's what bothers me most about this site too many of you want so desperately for the most minute events to be something incredible. This forum is full of some of the most ignorant and gullible people, not to mention biggest liars, I have ever seen.

I find this thread to be very interesting, the possibilities are tickling my brain.

Really...who is being gullible and ignorant?

Hi witness,

Would you care to share any of those possibilities that are tickling your brain?

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Where i live at when there is a lot of clouds down low in the morning.
There is a radio tower with a blinking light on top of it on a hillside..Well it light up all the clouds with a strobe effect very close to what i see in that video.
Hope that helps

I don't know about local industry in your area but Ethylene plants sometimes burn off gas byproducts in a process called 'flaring' that can be very bright and light up a large portion of the sky at night, especially if there is low cloud present.
I've seen this myself and it can be very impressive and looks very similar to the video in the OP.
A google image search yielded this result which shows what I'm talking about.

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Dude, I saw that same phenomenon in Virginia! I was with my cousin and I ran inside to get him so he could also confirm this bizarre event. It was a lot closer to us, and you could literally hear like very small thunder type sounds after each flash. Still though, it did not seem like lightning. This happened probably back towards the beginning of September. Trophy.

looks like birds or insects to me
maybe a reflection or a lens flare.
but DEFINITELY not pulsing light (cause lack of explanation)

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Hi,

I once lived near Lambert airport in St. Louis and would often see something similar as what you had described, but different. The reflective light on the clouds seemed much more defused than that of the video posted.

I also lived on the Puget sound across from Seattle and would witness a lot of city activity reflecting on low cloud cover. Again it lacked the crispness of the O.P video, but then again I don't witness everything.

I witnessed the approach and flyover of a UFO, sporting a bright orange globe on it's underside that had the same pulse rate as the OP video. I could imagine that same UFO hovering within that cloud.

Then there are the shows that mother nature provides.

At the start of the video the light is somewhat in line with the tree on the left and towards the end it's higher up. So it's either in the clouds and they are moving away from you, which seems unlikely. My second guess is that the lights are from a D.O.T truck with the orange yellowish lights. Maybe the big signs saying lane blocked or whatever. And towards the end they are moving down from the original location. Is there a highway or freeway that direction? Could be other roads besides a major route I guess but doesn't that sound plausible?

Well, obviously we cannot conclusively identify it, but I have seen a few explanations here that are quite feasible, mostly involving something generating bright consistent lights from the ground. What I will say though, is don't rule out lightining so quicky, I have seen some intense and super fast lightning storms that literally make the entire sky flash in a pulsating manner, at great speed, just like we are seeing here.

I am in no way saying it's lightning, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if that's what it turned out to be.

Very tricky to figure out what it is, but I'm not too excited about this being a new phenomena, or otherwordly craft or anything like that, which I'm sure some of you here are thinking...

If it happens again, jump in the car and drive towards it, maybe you'll be able to get some answers - I do suspect some freaky lightning is the answer, but what bugs me about that explanation is the consistency of the flashes, which could potentially rule that out. An expert in lightning could tell us whether that was a candidate or not.

Originally posted by Witness2008
reply to post by InhaleExhale

 

Hi,

I once lived near Lambert airport in St. Louis and would often see something similar as what you had described, but different. The reflective light on the clouds seemed much more defused than that of the video posted.

I also lived on the Puget sound across from Seattle and would witness a lot of city activity reflecting on low cloud cover. Again it lacked the crispness of the O.P video, but then again I don't witness everything.

I witnessed the approach and flyover of a UFO, sporting a bright orange globe on it's underside that had the same pulse rate as the OP video. I could imagine that same UFO hovering within that cloud.

Then there are the shows that mother nature provides.

The coloured sky over Melbourne as I had described do vary in intensity when cloud cover allows for these conditions and I should have mentioned is viewed in an easterly direction. Usually if the cloud cover is higher it is less intense and more so with lower cloud cover, obviously.

Okay, after watching some videos of crazy lightning in clouds, I'm edging towards ruling that out. There are some amazing examples of lightning lighting up clouds very fast in a pulsating manner, but nothing I have found has the consistency seen in the OP.

For example:

www.youtube.com...

All these examples have no consistency to the pulsating light, and are not as rapid as we see here. So I'd say a very bright light or beacon from the ground flashing consistently is more likely, unless someone can provide lightning giving a similar effect to the OP's video.

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Knowing the altitude of the clouds would help. I think that the color is what is throwing me off from the flashing ground lights, whether they be road crews, emergency vehicles and even airport lighting.

I suppose what tickles my brain are the considerations I give to all of the great sleuthing in threads like this. Eventually a theory will be presented that I am inclined to follow, but I will still keep an open mind for future reference sake.

when i first started the video i was thinking there was a fire in the distance but the pulsating light is consistent so now im stuck,

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Pretty much what I was thinking. Low clouds/fog in the distance covering a strobe of some sort (radio tower, emergency vehicle lights, etc.)...Still a cool vid!

My first thought when looking at it was that it was a Radio tower or airport lights... you know those flashers they have way up high... but then the light lost it's consistency and started doing wackadoodle stuff.. so I dunno... I've never lived in a major population to see how and emergency vehicle's light could reflect off in a low cloud formation..so I'm not sure about that idea but you city folks should know lol

this video is really wigging me out.

It looks so much grainier today than it did yesterday.

maybe it's the lighting in here or something but it looks very different.

was this re-uploaded?

The cloud looks very low to me. It doesn't even look like it's lighting up a broad area. The light looks to be confined to a small area like it's coming from a source on the ground in that spot. I think the OP is trying to pull one over on you guys or he's just not very smart.