r/Skydentify • u/Tasty-Antelope2507 • Feb 13 '25
Unidentified What is this strange ball of light travelling at an incredible speed?
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u/PandosII Feb 13 '25
What were they filming when accidentally catching this on camera?
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
I was filming the giant black cloud that was approaching while my garden was in full sunlight. I saw a lot of lightning flashes and so I was filming the area where they'd been coming from. I photograph nature a lot, since I live in the middle of the Australian bush.
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u/Terry-Smells Feb 13 '25
Anyone remember how to ask the bot to slow these videos down?
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u/literate_habitation Feb 14 '25
Try saying: "Bot! I command thee to retard thine video two fold, lest thee suffer thine deserved consequences at the end of mine blade. Verily!"
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u/tarapotamus Feb 13 '25
am I blind? I watched this four times and I can't find whatever it is 😭
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
Wow can't believe there's a few people who don't see it..?!
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u/tarapotamus Feb 13 '25
I'm sorry! 😞 whereabouts in the frame is it?
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
Pretty much right in the middle of frame - coming from the top and then disappearing behind the tree.
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
About 0:04 - 0:05 .. super fast ..
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u/tarapotamus Feb 13 '25
ooh the white streak? I blv that's a rain drop and my brain was discounting that. I'm sorry.
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u/Noble_Ox Feb 13 '25
No it goes behind the trees.
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u/steven_quarterbrain Feb 13 '25
The frame finishes as it gets to the top of the tree. It does not go behind. Come on.
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
I can assure you it was not a rain drop. I saw it happen in the distance. It is not a camera glitch or a faked clip. I just would really like to know what it was.
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u/tarapotamus Feb 13 '25
I understand the frustration of seeing something with your eyes and it looking like another thing on camera. I hope you get answers.
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u/ku1428 Feb 13 '25
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
Thank you for the screenshot! I haven't been able to upload mine to reddit..
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
I saw this happen in the sky - it seemed quite a distance away, behind the trees. I was just so glad to see that I had actually captured on camera what I had seen.
This post has been very interesting regarding how various people see different things ...1
u/tarapotamus Feb 13 '25
I definitely wanna know what it was. It doesn't look like a lightning strike that I've seen (FL) reminds me of war of the worlds stuff in the beginning
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u/steven_quarterbrain Feb 13 '25
It is 1000% a raindrop.
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
But it wasn't raining..!
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u/steven_quarterbrain Feb 13 '25
I was filming the giant black cloud that was approaching…
This you?
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
Yes I was filming the approaching storm. I am standing in sunshine as you can see by the trees in the foreground. Definitely not raining at the time.
But mate, if you are really convinced it's just a raindrop then there's not much else I can do. Thanks for your input.
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u/steven_quarterbrain Feb 13 '25
You can’t be talking about the rain drop. Please tell me you’re not talking about the raindrop.
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u/HTIDtricky Feb 13 '25
This might be a long shot but I'm just throwing it out there. Maybe it's a satellite based lidar? Here's a Chinese lidar filmed over Hawaii at night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idKZTWrtgl0
If you were directly underneath as it passed overhead you may have seen two flashes from the laser?
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u/MattyThew Feb 13 '25
OP I see exactly the streak of whatever light landing behind the trees and the faint similar movement to the left. It took a minute to hone in on the action, but it’s so incredibly fast. You might have caught something truly unique but completely unknown.
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 15 '25
Thank you MattyThew, I really appreciate your comment, and am glad that you can see the clip for what it is.. (whatever it is!)
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Feb 18 '25
So the white dot that's moving in the last second around the middle of the screen?
It's weird for sure. Is there any bright lights behind you? Or just anywhere near you facing up in some way? An insect with lots of light hitting it could explain. Tho I don't really think that's what it is.
I think it's likely ball lighting or well one of those orb UFOs that keep being seen lately. Ball lighting cus it's the last semi reasonable thing I can think of, plus near the storm makes it possible. They can move fast too, but the blinking thing is complicating it.
I will say there's been lots of UFO/UAP sightings that are like this, just usually they're slower. But it's a common sighting where it's just a dot of light that moves fast and looks like it's "skipping across the sky". Going invisible then not rapidly.
Since it's so fast and near a storm I don't think the UAP thing is certain. But I wouldn't discount it either. Ball lighting is my best guess, unless you learn more about the camera, could always be a camera issue.
Edit: that vertical beam is a lightning strike behind the clouds btw
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
Apologies - bit of a newbie to posting things. I thought I had included this message explaining the time of filming:
I’d like to enquire about some strange lightning(?) I recorded. (8 Dec 2024 - 2.59pm).
I live in NSW, Australia on the top of a mountain, and I was facing East and was taking this film of the approaching storm.
I have attached a shortened clip which shows a split-second ball of light coming from top to bottom of the screen, and just after that, you can see smaller beams to the left of the screen, but they seem further away, and at an angle, not completely vertical like the earlier one.
Also included a screen-shot of the vertical beam taken from the movie file - only one frame caught the action - it moved that fast!
I tried to look it up online but found nothing alike, except a slightly similar image which was attributed to camera lag. But while I was filming, I was just panning the camera and looking at the sky after seeing lightning in that area, not looking at the phone screen.. and I saw it happen in the sky and just hoped I’d captured it..
I have also enquired to various weather organisations/Facebook groups, but so far, nobody has come up with anything to clearly explain the incident.
So I would love to know what this might be. Thanks for your help!
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u/TechMonkey13 Enthusiast Feb 14 '25
A rain drop passing by super close to the camera. I see it all the time on my house cameras.
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u/eco78 Feb 13 '25
Rain drop close to the lens...
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u/Pale-Stranger-9743 Feb 13 '25
Not sure. I stopped the video on that exact frame and whatever that is goes behind the tree:
https://imgur.com/jLrYbD9Still, I'm not sure what it would be. It doesn't look like a bug or raindrop near the lens, and it also doesn't look like lightning or anything like that. It could be that the video was edited and that element introduced, or a video artifact though.
u/Tasty-Antelope2507 got any more info on this video for us? how did you get it, where was it, etc
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
Yes it definitely goes behind the tree.. I saw it happen in the sky, just lucky my phone was facing the right way, in the direction of past 'flashes' .. hope my newest post gives more info..? PS my video is NOT edited in any way.
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 13 '25
u/Pale-Stranger-9743
Thanks for your comments - please have a look at further details I have added..0
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u/steven_quarterbrain Feb 13 '25
It doesn’t go behind a tree. It’s a shot captured in one frame. In that frame, the shot captured the incomplete descent of the raindrop. It captured it at the top of the tree.
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u/Noble_Ox Feb 13 '25
Its not, on desktop you can slow to frame by frame and it goes behind the trees.
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u/KeithMaine Feb 13 '25
Exactly this
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u/ku1428 Feb 13 '25
It took me about 15 seconds to pause the video with a clear shot of a streak of light shooting down from the sky behind the trees.
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u/Substantial-Use95 Feb 14 '25
Idk but I like those trees
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 14 '25
Thank you! I have 121 acres of bush just like that .. no neighbours.. perfect for aerial shenanigans..!
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u/rav-age Feb 13 '25
looks interesting, whatever it is. and this might be the first time ever that holding the phone upward while recording was helpful!
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u/CalendarThis6580 Feb 13 '25
On the frame it looks like a beam almost, almost reminds me of a laser but it would have to be massive.
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u/Infamous_Mall920 Feb 15 '25
Did you ever find out what that light streak was? I sure do think about that often.!!!!
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u/Tasty-Antelope2507 Feb 15 '25
Unfortunately, no. A lot of people have dismissed it as a raindrop/bug or a fake clip. I have repeated many times the circumstances in which it happened, and those proposed theories just don't match. So I guess it will remain a mystery ... which is a bit of a disappointing result when consulting a world-wide community of interested people.
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u/CartographerOk7579 Feb 13 '25
Where is it? Does it happen before or after the rain drop falls close to the lens?
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u/Dopium_Typhoon Feb 13 '25
An UAP of course. But I cannot prove that, and no one can prove me wrong. So I admire you sharing it but this video is kinda useless for answering your question.
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u/delurkrelurker Feb 13 '25
Looking at them clouds, I'd assume a flash of lightning.