This “dancing” light from r/blackmagicfuckery
The explanation: The current hypothesis for why the phenomenon occurs is that sunlight is reflecting off or refracting through tiny ice crystals above the crown of a cumulonimbus cloud. These ice crystals are aligned by the strong electro-magnetic effects around the cloud, so the effect may appear as a tall streamer, pillar of light, or resemble a massive flash of a searchlight / flashlightbeam through the clouds. When the electro-magnetic field is disturbed by electrical charging or discharges (typically, lightning flashes) within the cloud, the ice crystals are re-orientated causing the light pattern to shift, at times very rapidly and appearing to 'dance' in a strikingly mechanical fashion.
Nature beats the crap out of us all the time with electromagnetics, so it's nice to see her drop a little beauty on us from time to time to make up for all the blood, sweat, and tears she drew.
ReplyDeleteaccording to Project Bluebook that was due to atmospheric inversions.
ReplyDeleteI read Project Bluebook. Tape a dime to a postcard and send it to those same folks that sent you a model of the entire launch complex at Cape Canaveral, or a large model of the Gemini capsule. They sent back a book with an actual baby blue cover.
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"Alright, Beatrice, there was no alien. That flash of light that you think you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus." - The Men in Black
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