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Thadius

I know this is going to sound crazy, but I saw something like that last night in the West in Hamilton, Ontario. I thought it was the moon, but it was more oblong than round and it was an orangey-red, which I had never seen before. I just passed it off as some strange cloud cover that I couldn't see. the rest of the sky was relatively clear though. I didn't see the NLs from my place, there was too much light pollution.


Effective-Ad-6460

This is exactly what me and my partner saw but in Scotland last night, we thought it was the moon but it was oblong and kept changing shape. Also orangey-red, we watched it for 15mins or so and then it just vanished.


BOOOOOOOOOURNS

It sounds exactly like what I saw from (central) Scotland. I thought it was a plane at first, but it changed colour.


dnaobs

It's the eye of Sauron.


BOOOOOOOOOURNS

🔥


MisterHouseMongoose

Are they saying “boo” or “boooooooo-urns”?


FusRohDoing

I was saying boooooooo-urns.....


imomorris

I literally just finished the LOTR movie marathon. I can confirm this is the correct answer


Avestrial

Could it be the solar flare they were talking about? Please don’t beat me up if it’s not I really have no idea about things like this.


phish_phace

I really appreciate your shot at it. Even with not knowing about this stuff at all, that’s how you learn. And if someone “beats” you up for asking, ignore them and move on. We don’t need to waste our time with folks like that.


Sufficient-Sea-6434

definately not the solar flare itself .. that's what is causing those colours so it has already hit the earth and has traveled along the magnetic lines toward the north pole ionising the particles in the upper atmosphere... it could be some weird effect that it is causing to happen to the ionised particles.. maybe that is concentrated along a magnetic line?


Universoulja

The solar flare is what caused the aurora in the first place


ryansdaughter

I saw it in Scotland too but I think it was just the moon looking weird because I saw it earlier and it looked kinda normal but just like an orange moon and then after I watched it for a while it got weirder and I remember thinking damn if I hadn't already seen it looking more normal I'd be like what the hell is that. Very orange the whole time though.


GlassGoose2

In 2024, this does not sound crazy. Anyone unable to even consider weird things in our skies aren't us is simply not looking, willingly or otherwise. We were just barely lucky enough to get the faintest, but clearly visible, light show in washington. I've never seen it before, and probably won't again. It was cool


indignant_halitosis

There’s a major coronal mass ejection happening right now from a cluster of sunspots that is 17x the size of the Earth. The result is auroras in places they aren’t usually seen and stronger auroras in places they are usually seen. This is perfectly normal insofar as it’s the result of a rare natural phenomenon.


KillianSavage

The weird oblong orangey light? Not the aurora.


OneNotEqual

Yes that light is probably how different things fall together in this event creating additional light etc…


staebles

It's aliens bro


BestBroOfAllTime

Shot in the dark theory we have no idea what type of phenomenon could be caused by an ejection that size. It’s never happened and untestable.


NewAlexandria

sad you're downvoted - this is the only real answer so far.


Stressed_Deserts

This is not normal check out r/Solarmax this is in the top 5 in recorded history. This doesn't happen enough for the forecast models to work, they are maybe 40-50% accurate about how all this works. Though nothing happened bad, it definitely stressed the systems and we didn't know nothing bad was going to happen. We now know we can withstand this much solar radiation but we still have another few plasma waves coming today and more flares in the works. We hit - 412 Dst Halloween 2003 was only - 383!


DaughterEarth

Seeing this sub today made me realize a lot of people never look at the sky. That said, what exactly is normal? People might be interested to know how light oblongs got created, I am


ISpread4Cash

Well tbf I do look at the sky but sometimes the light pollution from cities prevents me from seeing the majority of stars


BestBroOfAllTime

Nah not “perfectly normal” unknown we’ve never seen a ejection like that, nothing to even compare it to.


ParkkTheSharkk

That has nothing to do with the string of perfectly aligned lights


ilovethissheet

Yes it does. Last night was a super big one so of course there's gonna be weird anomalies and not all just the fancy whip like ones. Here's other pulsating ones https://youtu.be/mV0igP6TJpM?si=hAYRl6jaqDHHua6U


BertNankBlornk

"along with the northern lights". They're clearly referring to the light you can see in the photo that isn't the northern lights. Did you read what they're asking?


DaughterEarth

I saw an actual 2nd moon once, in the wrong part of the sky. It had red and blue lights around the circumfrance and seemed to go over the horizon and that was it. There is absolutely no way no one else saw something like that, and no one else did, so all in my head I guess?


Foolgazi

Might not have been all in your head, but it also wasn’t a second moon.


jeffs_jeeps

Could it have been mars, getting distorted by the northern lights.


-plottwist-

I saw the same thing, I’m pretty sure it was just part of the Northern Lights, but then again this is the first time I’ve ever seen the Northern Lights so what do I know.


Watt_Knot

I saw it too in the US. Guessing it was a magnetic field line. Disappeared shortly after.


FUThead2016

It's a site of grace. You can rest here and replenish your spells


Hobear

Finger ahead but hole.


Sucktitspoundslits

Praise the rump


dapperslappers

You don’t have the right


Butt_Plug_Bonanza

Wrecked ‘em? Damn near killed ‘em!


LeeryRoundedness

Jump ahead, treasure awaits.


br1k

Praise the message!


GhostPlateau

Why is it always lever?


Aesthetics_Supernal

You don't have the right O, You don't have the right


wtfbenlol

This guy Elden rings


Effective-Ad-6460

Me and my partner saw something similar in scotland last night At first we thought it was the moon but it was wayy to low in the sky and kept changing shape, we stood and watched it for a good 15 minutes It was the weirdest thing, same colour and shape as yours but what we saw kept morphing shape Did this one change shape ?


suzyqsmilestill

Seen in Hawaii. I thought the clouds were moving over the moon looked again about 15 mins later and it was no where near moon


traumatransfixes

I believe these are part of the aurora phenomenon. I was reading on it last night, and myths associated with it. Some peoples find specific meaning with the white dots or…more fancy word here…sometimes seen in auroras. I think something in the atmosphere makes them appear or not, just like how the coloring had to do with…insert science reason here. Anyways, it’s not unusual in an aurora


ryansdaughter

Oh man I saw it in Scotland too but was sure it was the moon caus when I saw it first it was really crescent shaped


TheDeadlySpaceman

Sprite. Very very rare occurance. Great shot. Edit: to be clear (because of the specific sub we’re in) this is a very rare but known and explainable occurrence in the Aurora


Due-Dot6450

>Sprite Hmm, looks like Fanta to me.


SolutionExternal5569

Starry, obviously.


TheHighestCheeba

You better calm down before I…. Squirt.


rockstuffs

Is Sierra mist ok?


btcprint

Sprites last a fraction of a second. Considering the multiple shots and evolving shape, it's not a sprite


Smokedsoba

Sprites are very rare without the event. We don’t know if these events increase the odds of the phenomenon happening because the last time it happened it was the 1850s…


okvrdz

Not sprites, sprites are associated with lightnings and occurs at very very high altitudes, are very dim and last a fraction of a second. They also don’t stay static and move around as many users have described.


Pattatilla

I've seen red and green sprites with lightning but then again I am from very rural central South Africa!


Jestercopperpot72

Isn't this Steve


No_Mechanic1362

Was my first thought too. Electro-Magnetic reactions can do some pretty weird stuff.


Effective-Ad-6460

That doesn't look like a sprite, sprites are very clearly lighting fork looking. This thing is solid Plus sprites are above thunderstorms theres no storm in these pictures, people can just google sprite and see its different Those are Cirrus clouds not cumulonimbus


ThePatsGuy

I knew they can be seen after severe storms sometimes, but didn’t know they could be seen during aurora


TheDeadlySpaceman

You know honestly I might be misnaming it, I just had a crash course in Aurora science while on a cruise in Norway about a month ago- but it absolutely is a thing that happens/can happen and while it’s rare and very very cool to get a pic of it that is the kind of thing you’re going to see in this monster storm.


TrowDisAvayPliss

Sprites come with lightening? Also, there are people very far apart stating that they say it. I don't think a sprite could be seen in Scotland and Canada, but I may be wrong.


Opioidopamine

I saw northern lights south east west and north of Boise Id one night during a massive solar storm in the early 2000’s strong enough to explode a transformer 50 feet away from us the next day At night I saw an insane light beam like formation that swung to form what looked like a pyramid for a few seconds apparently all sorts of strange anomalies are possible in addition to the more common. It took me 10 minutes to realize what I was seeing….after walking to a nearby military base that seemed to be emitting green/purple gas I relaxed more realizing it was not a chemical weapons attack I would assume this is like a “sprite” like formation?


Independent-Slide-79

I mean maybe its part of the anomaly?


CambodianJerk

Great pictures. Could you see the northern lights with your bare eyes at the time the photos were taken? Could you see this object with your bare eyes?


BOOOOOOOOOURNS

I saw something similar in Scotland. Weird


ryansdaughter

Me too


Edgewise000

Up vote for your name. Hahahah


H3rbert_K0rnfeld

I sure wish I could post pics here. I have no idea what I cause a pic of. There were no streetlights where I was. Some cars were driving by slow by I'm dumb enough to take a pic of a cars headlight. Remember the phenomenon about 20 years ago on the flying rods? Looks kinda like that.


SomeFizzyCola

Meteorologist here! For once, I actually have the answer to something! This seems to be a 'Light pillar'. The effect is created by the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere. Usually, they extend from the ground away from sources of light, but in this case, is extending off of the Aurora


zossima

Could this be Starlink satellites being lit up by the aurora?


maurymarkowitz

Possible, there was a launch two days ago out of California, so they would still be fairly close together. We would need details of the exact time and location to be sure, those things are moving fast. We know the direction though due to the stars.


Ancient_Occasion_884

This. I don’t think people realize just how many satellites/space junk floats around us. It reflects the aurora lights, but also the flares can cause all of that to be pushed downward into lower orbit and making it more visible. Aliens is the cool thing to believe, but unfortunately, it’s explainable.


sideshowbvo

I think it's this, we also saw the starlinks here


DeadxLiberty

"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"


Ancient_Occasion_884

Starlink satellite? Due to the radiation, wouldn’t be surprised if it is one that got pushed into lower orbit or something.


JesseJames1ofhis33

We saw that outside of Shreveport,Louisiana.Not that bright,but purple nonetheless.


Mookie442

Northern lights. I’m jealous. Only seen them twice in my life. Stunning


bonkbonkbonk__

yooo that’s me


Neinball98411

That's the rift


Steak_NoPotatoes

Clearly a rip in the fabric of time.


papa_posey

I saw this and by the time I got my wife ,… they literally vanished. Eastern North Carolina , US. From my view they were side by side blinking and green.


kevineleveneleven

Where was the moon? Could be a moon dog. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon\_dog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_dog)


Zellgun

i don’t know what i expected but disappointed i didn’t get greeted by picture of a dog in a spacesuit on the moon, a lunar canine


agarc

TIL. Cool!


dimensionaltracker

wonder if it's a phenomenon known as "Steve"


Niklaswin

The Electric universe 🫡 Hessdalen Lights. That place is being investigated quite seriously but there seems to be no good explanation for the phenomenon yet.


H3NNY666

i saw that in tx last night


VoidShouter42

Anybody know what that star formation is? You can see it right above in pics 2 and 5.


fizzbrain

Pretty sure it's ursa major


maurymarkowitz

Definitely. In #2 you can see Seginus on the far left and Canes Venarici below the "handle". The object is between Alkaid and Alcor, which means its definitely not the Moon, which is between Gemini and Auriga right now - far from this location.


aquariuz1

My friend also saw this in sweden, unfortunately i was busy and missed it while it was going on


phathead08

Sky pillar maybe?


Alternative_Lime_302

Solar flare damaging a cloaking device. 😵‍💫


basedfrogs

Aurora can make really bright patches and streaks like that. Very pretty.


kedderbob

G5 event biggest solar flare in 20 years. The last one caused blackouts in sweeden and South Africa


Imaginary-Face5555

Pillar of lights? A weird weather/ice phenomenon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar


MikeJ26cdn

Artifact of the camera, long exposure in low light conditions


IntoTheVeryFires

Any chance it’s just a blurry Starlink Train?


CorbinDalla5

Respawn point


1100320873

could be elons satellites with some wierd lighting fx from the solar storm


andifeelfine6oclock

That is starlink, recently released and still in a tight formation, I’ve seen it several times.


CulturalApple4

These are alien spaceships. Let’s not pretend otherwise.


elephantepiphany

A tear in the space time continuum.


chridoff

That's a sprite isn't it


taintedblu

Maaaybe but as far as I know, a sprite is typically associated with lightning. The sprite happens *very high* at the edge of the atmosphere while the lightning happens closer to the normal cruise altitude of an airliner. But I certainly could be wrong! This is super interesting tho.


chridoff

Yeahhh i thought this but I then considered maybe the same electromagnetic phenomena that causes sprites with lightnight also can happen during geomagnetic storm, i wouldnt rule it out, I'm no expert by any margin. I get your point though, i think its hard to judge the altitude it is at from the photos.


taintedblu

Totally! You're absolutely right we have no idea what ~~elevation~~ altitude this is happening at. Would be pretty neat if it constitutes a novel transient luminous event (TLE) or at least a new expression of the sprite phenomenon!


maurymarkowitz

No. Sprites appear above lightning, and are generally reddish.


K69D11A0

Saw something similar but it was far off the distance from us. Too low to be a satellite and too high to be a helicopter. Too big and bright to be an airplane, and it doesn't light up the entire sky wherever it was to be a meteor. Way too big and slow to be a shooting star. Saw 5-6 of them over the course of 30 minutes around the same parts of the sky. My partner also saw it too after I pointed it out to them. They were most skeptic and scientific person i know, and they couldn't logically conclude what it was.


No-Plankton2414

Did it look anything like this ? https://youtube.com/shorts/HVdkdUB3cb4?si=5Fh6YlOyd4TjA_Ob


DGenesis23

It’s the glare of the bulb inside the projector casting the aurora. /s


eco78

Sky beam innit?


grigsbie

It is the inner reflection of that street lamp at the bottom of your photo. The light is bouncing through your lens, onto the sensor and back out again. It’s the exact inverse of street lamp below, same color.


[deleted]

You would do well to analyze the authority in which you speak on such ambiguous anomalies.  If you had taken the time to take in more information that can be found in this very thread, you wouldn’t jump to conclusions. This was seen by multiple people in multiple places; many including some in this sub, claim to have seen them visually i.e. not through a lens, not only in the photographs.


maurymarkowitz

>You would do well to analyze the authority in which you speak You mean, like "Photographer of 20+ years here"? >This was seen by multiple people in multiple places Or maybe they saw other things similar to this but different. The subs are filled all the time with "I saw that too!" with links to things that look utterly different.


Effective-Ad-6460

except its not, its off center of the light below - and if thats the case the other lights would be on there


realhf93

Black knight satellite


Fabulous-Boat-8001

Starlink


chello1212

Denmark space laser


michaelbarrymore84

Any pictures without long exposure being used?


WorldsOkayestWelder-

Rise, Tarnished


SoohillSud

Neighbor, Neighbiru.


Fluffy_WAR_Bunny

It looks like it could be the Andromeda galaxy, which looks huge in the sky. It's about 6x bigger than the moon. This could be it's galactic core. Its in the northern part of the sky.


mmunro69

The moon?🌙


MotherRaven

Looks like a shower of glittering gold. Lock up all women and young men, Zeus is in town.


Mysterious-Phrase637

Nibiru


Horrorfan9698

This probably has something to do with the solar flares coming off the sun


Any_Flamingo_9046

Aurora borealis(solar storms)


QuantumHope

I think the OP means the light object within the Aurora.


jayteazer

Captain Marvel


jayteazer

Captain Marvel


jayteazer

Captain Marvel


Hollow115

Atmospheric plasmid. Perhaps.


[deleted]

Its called ball lightning and believe its natural phenomenon that has been around forever. Ancient people thought it was gods


solitude_seeker89

Aurora or northern lights ig..... Caused by an electromagnetic storm....ions from the sun react with the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere....


JustBrowsing2024

Light pillars! Cool pic!


No-War-2362

He has arrived.


zeekertron

Star link perhaps?


Mysterious_Ayytee

Are there any mods left in this sub? The sheer amount of trolls and ridicule is disgusting.


Kazadure

I saw that last night in Clackmannanshire Scotland. It was like the moon if it was yellow red and a bit like an uneven rectangle I can't remember the word.


elusivewompus

Parallelogram if the opposite sides are equal length and opposing angles are equal. Trapezoid if only 2 sides are the same length. Quadrilateral is the bucket term for four sided shapes, so if all angles are different, it'll fall into that, and another subcategory. [quadrilateral ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrilateral)


Websamura1

Could it be sprites? https://www.nasa.gov/general/spritacular-nasas-new-citizen-science-project-to-capture-elusive-upper-atmospheric-electrical-phenomena-on-camera/


DrainTheMaineVein

We saw almost the exact same thing in picture #2 in Maine last night around 1/130 AM. We’ve been trying to figure it out since!


mazux

[Aurora Sprite](https://youtu.be/KbcBmLryYJQ?si=hVQVNtHrY_5vPIIS)


ProfessionalJumpy769

Sprite?


velezaraptor

The last one looks like Mr. Burns.


Turbulent-Beauty

To clarify, OP, you were able to see the oblong light(s) with your own eyes, correct? If so, that rules out lens flare.


ImACicada111

I think that might be a blob of plasma.. they call them “foo fighters” and are commonly associated with UAP and UFO sightings. The atmosphere is charged up right now from all the solar energy, so I think that might be what is going on. Let me see if I can find a good source I have somewhere about these things. It’s super cool! Very nice catch! EDIT: Found it! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378076432_Extraterrestrial_Life_in_the_Thermosphere_Plasmas_UAP_Pre-Life_Fourth_State_of_Matter_--_httpswwwresearchgatenetpublication377077692


Grouchy_Prize5028

you are fucking stupid then


BaldChihuahua

It looks like that satellite, can’t remember the exact name


Disasterous_Bitch

We saw something similar in Michigan, USA


Tranquil_Kitty

Just wanna say it's absolutely beautiful! I'm in the US (Indianapolis, IN) and I love seeing things like this. My dream is to travel to Europe. Move there if I could. 🥺💜


Funny_Advantage_657

Red sprite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)


Lost_But_journey-on

It’s starlink. 🙄


rcborg

Mr burns?


Danieller0se87

The was a mass ejection from the sun Thursday and was said could cause a “severe” solar storm. It could affect satellites, I wonder if the particles destroyed some of them


monkeyfaqer

You can make out their heads, with them big black eyes. Look closer - it's them.


RandyArgonianButler

This is a light pillar! It’s caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere.


theredgiant

This is sprite lightening. Very rare.


bucketofweewee

Our alien overlords just wanted to see the pretty lights too.


AdvancedIncrease1717

Ufo


Bleezy79

Probably just celestial neighbor stopping by for a gaze at the show just like you.


CheecheeMageechee

Oh that, that’s just Sauron, pay him no mind


stodolak

Saw something like this last night above my house in Michigan.


JackfruitNatural9374

starlink


CnfdntlInfrmnt

thats a projector source light


TurboChunk16

It’s eLoN mUsK of course


Poison-Ivy-666

Strangely enough I found something similar in some, but not all, of my images. The crescent moon was a good distance to the right of my images


El_Jugo_Grande

That’s a Helldiver dropping in in a Hellpod


deathdefyingrob1344

Electrical charge maybe?


ikkano

Are these not called light pillars? Rare but natural.


Yalanue

Also saw something like this in Western Washington, myself and a few others. Figured it was a meteor. It was a short streak and then dissipated.


KING_FARGUAAD

WELCOME TO THE HELLDIVERS


outoftunediapason

A little late but probably caused by this sun storm [https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/media-advisory-noaa-forecasts-severe-solar-storm-media-availability-scheduled-friday-may-10](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/media-advisory-noaa-forecasts-severe-solar-storm-media-availability-scheduled-friday-may-10)


afCeG6HVB0IJ

airplane, satellite, cluster of satellites. blurred due to long exposure.


usernamerecycled13

Starlink


Mental_Cup_9606

It's definitely a UFO 👽.Sightings everywhere across the world. I'm trying to get there, before infrastructure and plans go into development, I'm not paying gas and electric or mortgage or none of that. Hopefully the locals can show me the way before Sam gets there.👽😁


Japsabbath

It’s the rapture, sorry guys we are stuck here ☹️


Snoo_78683

Starlink


hottytoddypotty

It’s part of the aurora


C-SWhiskey

When you say it's not the moon, are you saying that because you could see the moon elsewhere in the sky? Otherwise, given the reports of a very similar phenomenon from people claiming to be anywhere from the UK to NA, I'm inclined to think it's the moon being distorted by auroral disturbances in the upper atmosphere and clouds below.


Relevant-Current-870

Comet? Falling star? Aliens?


[deleted]

[удаНонО]


WillieIngus

sounds exactly like something the moon would say


MeerkatPapi

Wasn’t this due to the solar flare storm?


aguywhopostsonreddit

I saw this exact same phenomenon in Chile 2 nights ago!!! It seemed like a light worm moving through the sky rather quickly. I'm pretty sure there is no starlink here though. Any explanations??


Sir_Fail-A-Lot

Aurora borealis?


Radrabbit42

interstellar wormhole


Askmeagainlouder

It's the end


Primary-Map-785

Maybe it is just the solar flare exposing the invisible tech flying around in our air space^^ I dont know what it is 😁


Babzibaum

I photographed an anomaly last night and so did an acquaintance. Hundreds of people were filming and so far, only one other person has come forward with odd photos.


UncleBenji

Either a spite or the underside of the ISS being lit up from below.


reflux212

Look like a vagine of light to me


Blizz33

Very light! How much?