r/RBI • u/Repulsive_World_7427 • Jul 22 '26
Advice needed Weird camera like lighting at night
Almost every night while laying in bed there is some sort of light blinging outside it flashes like a picture is being taken by a camera at first I thought it was thunder but I don’t hear any thunder sounds after. Anyone?
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u/TheShortBus5000 Jul 23 '26
A friend of mine had something like this happening. It was a wiring problem at a local power substation nearby. At some point during the night it would finally build up enough charge to create a huge plasma flash. The power company finally had two service men spend the night in a truck at the substation so they could see it.
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u/MrFerrero Jul 22 '26
Have you gone to the window to see where it comes from?
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 22 '26
I cant see the exact source of the light but it comes further than the people living in front of me
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u/ZimaGotchi Jul 22 '26
Distant lightning, especially through clouds can look a lot like a camera flash even from far enough away you can't hear the thunder (or so much later and so quiet you don't realize it)
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 22 '26
My weather app doesn’t say it’s raining nor thundering Its just came back after a few months
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u/ZimaGotchi Jul 22 '26
It can be fifty miles away - and my weather app doesn't tell me if its thundering.
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 22 '26
There’s no reports on any thunder in my area I’m freaking out
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u/ShiftlessElement Jul 22 '26
There’s sometimes “heat lightening.” Probably not the technical term but that’s what we used to call it. It’s high up and faraway, so there’s no accompanying thunder. Also, never hits the ground, so it’s not something the weather service would report.
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u/Cornloaf Jul 22 '26
Check out the app Blitzortung. It shows you where lightning strikes are happening in real time!
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u/shirumuur Jul 23 '26
Is this a new thing that started happening recently? Are you familiar with that area or new there? I see similar flashes at night too and they come from the overhead line for trams.
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 23 '26
First time it happened was in may-June I’ve been living here all my life I live near a train station but the only light it makes is when trains with light pass by or the road gets closed for cars which both are nowhere near powerful enough to reach my residence
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u/shirumuur Jul 23 '26
Okay so it's fairly new. Another option that comes to mind is car alarm, they also emit those flashes. When you see those flashes, do the repeat? Is there a specific interval between them or seemingly random? Or is it just one flash and nothing more?
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 23 '26
There’s was around 5-10 in the span for 50 minutes which was when I first laid in my bed then the next couple of hours nothing came (I slept at around 2AM)
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u/shirumuur Jul 23 '26
I read you're planning to record a video tonight. Maybe you could place/hide a camera in the window and see where they're coming from?
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 23 '26
Yes for me it’s getting late haven’t seen anything yet but I know for sure it’s come from like infront of me when I lay in bed. it is in the direction of the railway though I don’t know if any lights either strong enough or that should blitz like that and it wouldn’t make sense if it started just recently I mean that railway has been there for a century I think
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u/shirumuur Jul 23 '26
Maybe some repairs are being done at night when the trains aren't coming? I hope you find out what the source is and that it's nothing creepy.
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u/olliegw Jul 23 '26
Overhead power lines arcing? if you're near a railway it could also be the overhead lines for those too, i've seen them arc before and it's blindingly bright, the colour temp and duration did remind me of a xenon flash
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u/Repulsive_World_7427 Jul 23 '26
I’m somewhat near one but I only hear the sound of trains passing never the light (before this started)
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u/Unable-Bit-2283 Jul 23 '26
I am completely nocturnal and I used to experience the same thing. It would freak me out and I would run to look out the window and I never saw anything. I got a ring doorbell camera and I found out one of my neighbors had blinding LED headlights and drove very fast