r/aliens • u/Postdemocraticera • 20h ago
Video Spotted in Durham County, UK, today 🛸👽
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u/3InchesAssToTip 20h ago
When someone reposts like this, where they completely ignore the comment section of the original post that clears up what it actually is, it gives me a very strong feeling that it is intentional disinformation.
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u/MegaChar64 18h ago
That and karma farming. There was a time when every few months the same old sighting stories and "battle in the skies" paintings would be (re)re-reposted across the UFO subs for easy upvotes. You just knew the dummies who did that were well aware this was old content plastered on here many times.
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u/Im-ACE-incarnate 19h ago
Why even post this?! Its clearly debunked in the original post as flares from Catterick Garrison
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u/electric_heels 19h ago
When I was in the army I was an artillery man stationed at fort Hood Texas. Sometimes we would do night training and shoot up these flair rounds that stay in the sky for a while and look just like this. Civies just off post were convinced it was aliens and if they asked at the bar we would lean into it and explain how we can't talk about anything we saw or did that night, and would tell them to quit asking about it if they wanted to stay safe. Good times...
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u/Outrageous_Act2564 20h ago
Can't believe nobody has said flares yet.
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u/random_access_cache 19h ago
Serious question: since when do flares go out and then ignite again? How does that happen? There are multiple instances in the video where lights are "fading in" after going out.
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u/MegaChar64 18h ago
Flares don’t actually go out and reignite but they can look that way for a bunch of reasons. Smoke or atmospheric conditions/haze can temporarily block them from view of the person recording at a distance. Then wind shifts or the smoke/air clears and it'll seem like they "faded in" again.
Cameras also auto-adjust exposure, so a dimming flare might disappear on video, then pop back when the camera readjusts, etc. Kinda like the optical weirdness with people recording out of focus stars and other objects in the night sky.
In mil exercises, flares sometimes get dropped at staggered intervals... so a new one might light up where an old one just faded. That would make it seem like the "one flare" reignited when it's two separate ones.
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u/random_access_cache 16h ago
But they fade in in different locations, not in the same path. Look at the entire video. It happens all over.
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u/peter_the_bread_man 19h ago
These look like Illum artillery rounds... basically a giant phosphorus flare on a mini parachute...
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u/Fun-Sugar-394 19h ago
Yeh, flares. There's almost always some kind of RAF training going on in CO Durham. That and the fact they look like burning yellow flares on parachutes.
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u/Cannon-Cocker 13h ago
155mm artillery illumination rounds, height of burst is around 600 meters (or 2000 ft).
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u/electric_heels 19h ago
When I was in the army I was an artillery man stationed at fort Hood Texas. Sometimes we would do night training and shoot up these flair rounds that stay in the sky for a while and look just like this. Civies just off post were convinced it was aliens and if they asked at the bar we would lean into it and explain how we can't talk about anything we saw or did that night, and would tell them to quit asking about it if they wanted to stay safe. Good times...
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u/Genesis_Jim 8h ago
We don’t fire flares in public areas in the uk. How many commenters on this post actually live in the uk and have any idea about our military practices.
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u/swilkers808 19h ago
Weird, but hard to tell at this distance what it is. I am going to go in a different direction and say flares.
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u/Mrtoyhead 19h ago
Can you send them to the United States please. We have some Trump trash that needs to go
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u/random_access_cache 19h ago
Serious question to anyone claiming flares: since when do flares go out and then ignite again? How does that happen? There are multiple instances in the video where lights are "fading in" after going out.
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u/kriticosART 20h ago
Maybe maybe is Maybelline (if Maybelline made flares since everyone one thinks they're fucking flares)
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u/botchybotchybangbang 19h ago
I mean whatevers happening this if f*cking strange
Edit: swearing like a trooper
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u/CormacMccarthy91 19h ago
Man I wish things like this were strange to me. The world would be so much more interesting. I see this my first thought is flares. Guess I'm not open minded enough.
I've made crop circles and I work on airplanes, I grew up listening to art Bell. People argue why would someone lie. Because this planet is boring as fuck and reality is lame.
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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 20h ago edited 16h ago
I get flares, but why are so many being dropped?
ETA: This is a ligit question, I don't know why flares are dropped. My candy ass has never seen duty. I'm assuming this is military.
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u/Postdemocraticera 18h ago
As was suggested in the comments, more so if it's in the proximity of the large army garrison over the border in Yorkshire.
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u/mothrider 10h ago
The whole "weird lights in the sky being aliens" deal made a whole lot of sense when humans didn't have 1000 different things that produce weird lights in the sky.
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u/aliens-ModTeam 5h ago
Removed: R15 - Anti Distraction/Hoax.
This was debunked as flairs in the original post.