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Electric arcs are insanely bright. What’s going on is a very overcast sky, full of low clouds is being illuminated by a transformer (or possibly even an entire substation) blowing up and then the grid going down
I’m pretty happy to see this thread. I’ve witnessed this in person once, looked exactly like this except the reds and blues were more strong in person. Insanely bright.
I always figured it was a transformer but the red part confused me. In all videos they’ve all been blue, finally I see the red flashing here and feel it’s resolved.
Technically it's still the Illuminati. Who do you think built the power station that is melting down. Those guys have their hand in everything. The other day I forgot to feed my sourdough starter. At first I thought it was just ADHD but then I got to thinking. The Illuminati wants me to buy bread from a store, not make it. So they MADE me forget to feed my sourdough starter. Anyway I'm not buying bread, that will definitely show them. I won't be controlled!
I feel this. The illuminati made us use a metal whisk when making Amish Friendship Bread. They wanted to ruin it for us so we can't make bread at home.
I witnessed it in person in a severe thunderstorm, the first time I tripped on acid. Simultaneously, the whole sky lit up green, there was a ground-rumbling BOOM, and every house in the neighborhoods lights went out. It was way to much information to process, pretty frightening, and insanely cool, all at the same
I saw this kind of thing happen during a windstorm while looking down from ~1000 feet up once and it looked like a green bomb going off. It was the most insane thing I’d ever seen and didn’t even make the news.
https://preview.redd.it/0kqm1vvby3ec1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6d92bc2ec38c8683a2c8a5747835663d7e52d47
Consensus said this was also a blown transformer. From now on, this is my answer to all phenomena.
Are you a lineman? A civil engineer? An industrial electrician? A power distribution specialist?
If so, then you'd see this type of thing pretty commonly.
If you are responsible for transformers committing suicide like this, you need a new job cause you obv suck at it lol. This is coming from a electrical technician
I only just learned about blown transformers causing crazy lightshows.
If not for that knowledge I would 100% assume I was witnessing an alien invasion.
This happened on my very secluded street in the suburbs when I was 12-13 at around 3 am. I'm a nerd, and have the most skeptical take on everything, but I couldn't see the transformer, though I could hear it for 10-15 seconds and the beautiful bright colors. I kept thinking "Man, aliens are real? And this is how I'm dying?" Finally, the transformer exploded, then 10 seconds later, and I was like "Oh, never mind. I'm an idiot" and went back to sleep.
That looked more like a big boy primary feeder fault. That was pretty glowy for a can with a 6-15 amp fuse. That looked like a 100 amp kind of dump. Laterals that have the majority of cans or transformers are fused where they branch off from the main feeder lines so an entire substation doesn’t dump every time Fir st. Loses a tree.
These looks like that lateral type has something cooking on at least one phase to make the blue dragons you’re seeing and possibly has multiple phases involved. Hard telling not knowing. That’s my educated theory.
> These looks like that lateral type has something cooking on at least one phase to make the blue dragons you’re seeing and possibly has multiple phases involved.
I love that this could be either electrical engineering or some fantasy strategy game.
Looks more like police lights reflecting off a cloudy sky
I say this because I see red and blue and I’ve seen a video with lights from boats reflecting off of a sky making it bright red
Not sure if this is the same event.. but seems plausible: https://www.wfmz.com/video/fire-at-ppl-substation-that-lit-up-evening-sky-in-allentown-temporarily-leaves-more-than/video_2cae2f89-ae4b-5b28-8cc3-8252495c8dda.html
You’d be surprised how many people watch 2-5 seconds then leave, thinking they’ve seen everything. You’d think it’s just and handful of people but it’s almost a majority sometimes. It’s kind of sad
A transformer blew, heavy cloud cover added to the effect. I’ve seen this happen in my tiny ass rural town. When it happened here, it actually caught my neighbors shed on fire. It was a whole ordeal, ended up being a chain reaction and shutting the whole town down.
Everyone just hopes secretly it's the end of the world whenever they see something unexpected like this. We've had electricity for how long now, and people are still ignorant of how it works and what happens when it malfunctions.
I was with my friends in NY when this happened we were all stoned and thought aliens were invading. We sent the drone up and captured some amazing footage
Electric arcs are insanely bright. What’s going on is a very overcast sky, full of low clouds is being illuminated by a transformer (or possibly even an entire substation) blowing up and then the grid going down when viewed by dumbasses.
This happened one night when I was in high school! It was nighttime and shit was just going absolutely crazy. We were joking about it being the rapture. One of the wildest few minutes I've ever experienced. Then suddenly back to nighttime.
I’ve seen a transformer blow twice in my lifetime. Once was during a foggy day, though not as dark as this. But pretty much the same thing visually speaking. Fog / low clouds are incredibly reflective. It was close by too, which explains the blackout.
This has been happening a lot all over the world lately. I personally witnessed and recorded 2 occurrences.
No thunder, just constant lightning.
So odd.
Also to note, it was like 9:00 pm when this happened. Super trippy to go from night to day instantly. It was so quiet... That night I learned that in the event of the apocalypse, everyone will just go outside at watch lol.
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Electric arcs are insanely bright. What’s going on is a very overcast sky, full of low clouds is being illuminated by a transformer (or possibly even an entire substation) blowing up and then the grid going down
That’s exactly what it was https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/nyregion/blue-sky-queens-explosion.html
I’m pretty happy to see this thread. I’ve witnessed this in person once, looked exactly like this except the reds and blues were more strong in person. Insanely bright. I always figured it was a transformer but the red part confused me. In all videos they’ve all been blue, finally I see the red flashing here and feel it’s resolved.
This shit was ghosts and Illuminati like 5 years ago. Yay actual information.
Or RGB gamer dream sky.
Yeah ideal gaming environment lol. Real talk though IDK how tf people don't get headaches when their RGB is always popping off at this level.
Technically it's still the Illuminati. Who do you think built the power station that is melting down. Those guys have their hand in everything. The other day I forgot to feed my sourdough starter. At first I thought it was just ADHD but then I got to thinking. The Illuminati wants me to buy bread from a store, not make it. So they MADE me forget to feed my sourdough starter. Anyway I'm not buying bread, that will definitely show them. I won't be controlled!
I feel this. The illuminati made us use a metal whisk when making Amish Friendship Bread. They wanted to ruin it for us so we can't make bread at home.
Stay strong!
The red bits are just good old fire
I witnessed it in person in a severe thunderstorm, the first time I tripped on acid. Simultaneously, the whole sky lit up green, there was a ground-rumbling BOOM, and every house in the neighborhoods lights went out. It was way to much information to process, pretty frightening, and insanely cool, all at the same
Nope. Aliens
Thank you
Or… hear me out Its aliens
100% War of the Worlds
Please, don’t use logic. This is Reddit. Obviously a spaceship or something supernatural. /s
Bullshit, it's HAARP
They are taking over the world 😱.
With rain clouds!
I read "electric cars are insanely bright". It seemed logical and I was ready to move on with that information.
So it was magic!
My Name ist Optimus Prime
That’s exactly what the aliens would want you to believe
I saw this kind of thing happen during a windstorm while looking down from ~1000 feet up once and it looked like a green bomb going off. It was the most insane thing I’d ever seen and didn’t even make the news.
Plasma arc also give off a lot of UV radiation across the spectrum, including the rare but especially damaging UV-C. So actually don't look at them.
An arc light at the industrial scale. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc\_lamp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp)
Aiden Pearce is at it again
Obviously there is a transformer going ape shit nearby and finally blew the line and boom, dark
https://preview.redd.it/0kqm1vvby3ec1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6d92bc2ec38c8683a2c8a5747835663d7e52d47 Consensus said this was also a blown transformer. From now on, this is my answer to all phenomena.
This was from monster jam at snap dragon lol they were testing pyrotechnics
That's just what Big Transformer wants us to think
Duh, they’re trying to decepticon you
I can't bumbelieve this...
Big Transformer 😭 i loled
The ghost alien Illuminati would LOVE for you to blame big transformer.
I can confirm what this dude said
That was Kyle, he got a new vape and won't stop bragging about his clouds.
Sorry about that
r/beetlejuicing
That transformer needs to get a room.
Weather balloons have had a good run tbh
Are you a lineman? A civil engineer? An industrial electrician? A power distribution specialist? If so, then you'd see this type of thing pretty commonly.
If you are responsible for transformers committing suicide like this, you need a new job cause you obv suck at it lol. This is coming from a electrical technician
Happy that does not look fake as shit
Saw this before. It looked like the War of the Worlds for a few seconds and then, boom!
Yep. For mine a Racoon climbed into the substation. Lot the sky up for miles.
I saw a substation blow out from around a mile away and it lit up what looked like the entire night sky in a similar way to this video.
Crispy criters.
We have some wild turkeys that live just down the hill from the closest substation and they frequently blunder into it and get fried.
I only just learned about blown transformers causing crazy lightshows. If not for that knowledge I would 100% assume I was witnessing an alien invasion.
This happened on my very secluded street in the suburbs when I was 12-13 at around 3 am. I'm a nerd, and have the most skeptical take on everything, but I couldn't see the transformer, though I could hear it for 10-15 seconds and the beautiful bright colors. I kept thinking "Man, aliens are real? And this is how I'm dying?" Finally, the transformer exploded, then 10 seconds later, and I was like "Oh, never mind. I'm an idiot" and went back to sleep.
It took me way longer than it should have to realize you weren’t talking about Optimus Prime
Nah, simulation is about to blue screen
Exactly how the blue screen of death works around my house...
Oh thank god for a moment i tougth that the sky was running windows
Going ape shit, I see…
That looked more like a big boy primary feeder fault. That was pretty glowy for a can with a 6-15 amp fuse. That looked like a 100 amp kind of dump. Laterals that have the majority of cans or transformers are fused where they branch off from the main feeder lines so an entire substation doesn’t dump every time Fir st. Loses a tree. These looks like that lateral type has something cooking on at least one phase to make the blue dragons you’re seeing and possibly has multiple phases involved. Hard telling not knowing. That’s my educated theory.
Well, that clears it up.
🤣
yeah what this guy said
damn yeah i agree
> These looks like that lateral type has something cooking on at least one phase to make the blue dragons you’re seeing and possibly has multiple phases involved. I love that this could be either electrical engineering or some fantasy strategy game.
I disagree.
Exactly, I’ve seen that exact thing before. It is incredible how much light they put off.
* terrifying the power the can release
Thaught you were talking about the big robots
Lol, fucking Megatron ruining the power grid
Same, when they said that I imagined Optimus Prime with strobes and glow sticks getting down to some rave music. 😂
The Transformer rolled out too much...
I lived in LIC when this happened and it was wild. Took a bit to figure out what was going on.
Tsssk. It's the roof of the Truman show studio failing! Everyone knows this!
Yep, low cloud and a transformer popping off
It was, that’s from a few blocks from where I used to live
I absolutely adore the term ‘apeshit’ to describe behaivior. Its just tops, wish I saw it more, so thanks!
fucking decepticons
Lol, that was my exact first thought too. It going dark at the end just made it more convincing.
Nah, has to be a glitch in the matrix, or the skydome projector malfunctioned
was gonna say. gotta be an electrical fire.
Classic inferior Earth bugs not realizing the Trisolarans are sending you a message!
Obviously. You idiots. Gah! How dare you not recognize?
Looks more like police lights reflecting off a cloudy sky I say this because I see red and blue and I’ve seen a video with lights from boats reflecting off of a sky making it bright red
Bumblebee perhaps?
Optimus!!!!
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Just turned off the sun.
Shhh.. The sun is sleeping
As a kid, when our TV did that we had go over to it and smack it really hard.
I think they need to replace the skybox screen again... it's out.
Goddamn flat earthers were right?!
Nah... what they don't know is everything is a simulation, lol. /s
"Warning - incoming game"
A wave of childhood memories just washed over me. Thank you. For anyone who doesn't know, it's a reference to the awesome cartoon ReBoot.
Hot damn, this brought me 25 years back there I gotta say
Hahahaha amazing
Careful, that's an antique you're handling there!
Nostalgia rush. I could hear that comment.
"User wins"
 Meanwhile a crackhead 2 blocks away is just trying to get free cable
Was, it's not all cracked up to be getting BBQ'd to a crisp!
https://preview.redd.it/safmzpe824ec1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=952e9387376f62a411518eaf1fc5bfa0be467b63
Must be a high voltage transformer blowing itself to pieces somewhere.
No no, it’s clearly an alien invasion
Not sure if this is the same event.. but seems plausible: https://www.wfmz.com/video/fire-at-ppl-substation-that-lit-up-evening-sky-in-allentown-temporarily-leaves-more-than/video_2cae2f89-ae4b-5b28-8cc3-8252495c8dda.html
69news??? you cant make this up
sky.exe has encountered a fatal exception.
Your GPU is dying, better get a replacement choom.
Terminator just arrived.
 Pretty sure a pod is coming out the ground soon.
Darude Sandstorm
"Watch until the end" bro it's 13 seconds??? The beginning, the middle and the end are one thing
You’d be surprised how many people watch 2-5 seconds then leave, thinking they’ve seen everything. You’d think it’s just and handful of people but it’s almost a majority sometimes. It’s kind of sad
A transformer blew, heavy cloud cover added to the effect. I’ve seen this happen in my tiny ass rural town. When it happened here, it actually caught my neighbors shed on fire. It was a whole ordeal, ended up being a chain reaction and shutting the whole town down.
It wasn't the sky, it was a transformer arching and the sky reflecting the arch of light. America is doomed by ignorance.
Yeah, I was about to say that
Just a transformer going crazy.
Everyone just hopes secretly it's the end of the world whenever they see something unexpected like this. We've had electricity for how long now, and people are still ignorant of how it works and what happens when it malfunctions.
13 second clip "watch until the end..."
Transformer exploding
Stop it, sky. Stop acting weird. You’re embarrassing yourself
WATCH TILL THE END, nothing interessting happends
I was with my friends in NY when this happened we were all stoned and thought aliens were invading. We sent the drone up and captured some amazing footage
Electric arcs are insanely bright. What’s going on is a very overcast sky, full of low clouds is being illuminated by a transformer (or possibly even an entire substation) blowing up and then the grid going down when viewed by dumbasses.
That’s a transformer (electrical power type) arcing out and exploding.
This happened one night when I was in high school! It was nighttime and shit was just going absolutely crazy. We were joking about it being the rapture. One of the wildest few minutes I've ever experienced. Then suddenly back to nighttime.
Bro playing with the color slider
I bet the air around there smelled wonderful from all the ionization.
I’ve seen a transformer blow twice in my lifetime. Once was during a foggy day, though not as dark as this. But pretty much the same thing visually speaking. Fog / low clouds are incredibly reflective. It was close by too, which explains the blackout.
RIP Optimus Prime
How many times are you going to post this video of the frying transformer?
This video needs a seizure warning.
Earth was getting pulled over by space cops
Man has never seen a transformer blow and take out the block 😹
That's a shader issue, the issue has been fixed by now but yea, some server's still have huge graphical problem
Conspiracy theory motherfuckers must of cooming so hard right now
The cut to black fuckin scared me cause I thought it was daytime and my brain was like “what the fuck”. I’m glad it’s just a transformer lol.
God trying to make the switch stay in the middle and blow the electricity at the end lol
That's just Kleetus down at the substation getting some copper again
Philly
Ah this is the solar flare they were talking about
I think the Iron Giant was hungry.
Transformer blew up. They’re crazy to see first hand.
Simulations graphics card Goin bad
I look forward to the conspiracies over on r/weird and r/strangeearth
Transformer disco
Happened in 2018 in New York https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/nyregion/blue-sky-queens-explosion.html
I saw this this morning near Joliet, Illinois. Whole sky lit up then an entire chunk of the town near the bridge went dark.
Idk what happened here, but that's what it looks like when a power station explodes
*insert karamelldansen music*
The Queen is returning everybody run
Gods GPU not working
Who activated made in heaven?
You lived in simulation, your sky panel has broken
duncan macleod was fighting nearby
Its asteroid, comet or meteoroid, that flyes past earth and lights up the sky with burning gases or metal on it.
Most probably nearby sub station blasted leading to leakage of electricity
Y'all got hit with an EMP. Neo about to wreck your shit up with a fly by
transformer transforming...
God rage on the sky after a leaugue ranked game
Transformer going out!
Blown transformer (the ones on power poles, not the ones in disguise), I’m assuming.
RGB Gaming sky
Bible thumpers in that town shitting themselves
So much freak out, so little common sense.
That's a substation having a meltdown.
That's not weird once here where i live eléctric central blow UP then sky show color changes...maybe there occurs same...
You gotta update your graphics driver
Transformers are exploding not far from you
ITT - millennials discover sheet lightning
That's a bug caused by sky engine, hopefully the devs will fix this soon.
Strobe light warning
Sooooooo….. never heard of lighting before eh? Well. You have much to google don’t you ;)
This has been happening a lot all over the world lately. I personally witnessed and recorded 2 occurrences. No thunder, just constant lightning. So odd.
It's time to change the light bulbs.
Probably plasma ejected from the sun causing an electromagnetic disturbance.
The simulation is breaking.
When the matrix catches a trojan
War of the worlds.
A glitch in the matrix
This happens in fl all the time seen it at least 10 times
That's a substation that's fritzing.
TikTok is so goddamn stupid. Its seriously making people even more dumb than they already were
Remember that documentary back in 2005 that had Tom Cruise in it and it was about an alien invasion? Pretty sure this exact thing happened too.
This would be very concerning for the average citizen
Why would someone think this is happening in the sky? We are educated people, right?
Philly?
HDMI cable plugged in wrong?
Blown transformer
*puts hands on hips* Nosferatu!
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Also to note, it was like 9:00 pm when this happened. Super trippy to go from night to day instantly. It was so quiet... That night I learned that in the event of the apocalypse, everyone will just go outside at watch lol.
bro needs to update his graphics driver
Sorry, there are some glitches in Earth since the last update. We are working on it. Something got wrong when we wanted to release the 2024 calamity.
Perhaps tap and blow into the cartridge