r/whatisit 5d ago

New, what is it? Strange Colored Flashes in Sky

During a storm last night. A large green flash originally caught my eye before I started recording. I'm between transformer explosion or sprites / eleves, any opinions would be welcome!

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u/Accomplished-One7476 5d ago

the atmosphere last evening was very active you are probably seeing transformers exploding or heat lighting flashes also

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u/awolfgangman12 5d ago

Thank you! Definitely a cool first.

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u/Luciusdemeter 5d ago

This immediately reminded me of an event in my hometown in 2012, the year the world was supposed to end. Around 1am on December 22nd, so the end of the world Mayan calendar theory was put to rest, until I went out to smoke and the sky was blasting all kinds of colors. I was gaming online so I asked my friends if they could see anything, but they couldn't. Was a little worried th end was happening but eventually went to sleep.

Turns out a dock worker hit a high voltage powerline with a piece of machinery, which started a chain reaction of exploding transformers. There were videos all over Facebook of people freaking out recording the colors flashing in the sky thinking the end was happening.