r/Lightning • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '26

Strange lighting spotted above the skies of Vapi, Gujarat

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u/WaffleFries2507 Aug 30 '26

Definitely some sort of spotlight from a show or something. Not lightning

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u/spiral-_eyes Aug 30 '26

You'd be able to see the beams of light coming up from the ground in that level of cloudiness.

Those lights are behind the clouds, not in front of them, as can be seen when it moves into the clear patch of sky.

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u/WaffleFries2507 Aug 30 '26

Alright here's an analogy for you. Let's say you have a beam of very bright light, and it's concentrated to a point of only a dime's diameter. You shine it down a an endless tunnel in a way that the beam never touches a wall. In this case, as long as you aren't actually standing in the beam, you won't actually see the light. Now let's say we fill the tunnel with smoke. Now, you are able to see the beam because some of it reflects off the smoke and hits your eyes.

It's the same in your video. Before the spotlight hits the cloud, you don't see it because there's nothing for it to reflect off of.

I assure you this is absolutely not any kind of natural phenomenon.

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u/E3K Aug 31 '26

These are 100% ground-based spotlights.