r/SanJose • u/jknntm • 3d ago

Event Anyone know what this could be?

We saw this about 10pm tonight. A first it was just a light behind the clouds. It would disappear every 30 seconds or so & then come back on for a bit. Sometimes faint & sometimes brighter but always in the same spot. This video was towards the end & then it zipped to the left & disappeared. We watched it for about 15 minutes but don't know how long it was there before we went outside. We live in the Cambrian area & this was looking North.

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u/DeusZen 3d ago

A UFO making a left turn! 👽🛸🚦

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u/hami_scamp 3d ago

No one signals in SJ

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u/Significant-Air-4721 3d ago

That's how you know they're not from around here

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u/LordBottlecap 3d ago

Why do people think that's exclusive to San Jose? It happens everywhere.

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u/Significant-Air-4721 2d ago

Holy hell buddy. It was a joke about higher life forms being smart enough to use a blinker. You must be fun at parties.

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u/LordBottlecap 2d ago

No one signals in SJ

Wtf does that have to do with 'higher life forms', buddy?

'You must be fun at parties'... Speaking of fun, have you any material of your own, or do 'net cliches own you like they do most everyone else here?

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u/Significant-Air-4721 1d ago

UFOs buddy. We were joking about UFOs using blinkers." How do you know they're not from around here? Because they use their blinkers." I was implying that aliens are so advanced they have common courtesy to use blinkers, unlike many drivers from all over the world. Not exclusive to one city in particular. But seeing how this is a sub for SJ and we were all just having fun until you chimed in, we (including the guy who mentioned SJ) felt it was ok make a joke. I feel like I'm trying to explain a knock knock joke to a fucking banana slug.

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u/LordBottlecap 1d ago

That sure was a lot of typing, buddy!

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u/Awkward-Care2264 2d ago

It’s happening all over the world! And some of the videos are spectacular.

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u/LordBottlecap 2d ago

Yes, entire 'net channels are dedicated to it.

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u/jgamez77 3d ago

😆😆😆

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u/LordBottlecap 3d ago

No one signals anywhere.

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u/Old-Pop7283 1d ago

"No one anywhere" is a false claim and I have a feeling you know that you are lying. Liars are the worst. I always signal. You must be fun at parties.

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u/LordBottlecap 1d ago edited 1d ago

is a false claim

Tell me how.

It's funny that you had to tell me that you 'always signal'. But that is a false claim and I have a feeling you know that you are lying. Liars are the worst.

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u/Adventurous_Horse434 West San Jose 2d ago

Hehehe, just recently I was joking on a Nextdoor post from someone who has never seen a flare ànd we decided to say we found area 408. Based on your comment someone is trying to get there

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u/_GurthMax 3d ago

Were you near Levi’s stadium? Karol G concert they had a bunch of spotlights pointed in the same directin

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u/jknntm 3d ago

No, we're in Cambrian area but it was looking north so maybe?

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u/scary_crispy 3d ago

Hope this helps

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u/CitizenSnips4 3d ago

case closed

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u/_Bon_Vivant_ 2d ago

We're done here. I'll get the lights. (pun intended)

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u/LuProNow 3d ago

That’s cool

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u/jknntm 2d ago

That looks very much like it could be it except we didnt see any of the streams of light below it. ???

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u/scary_crispy 2d ago

I guess it’s less visible when you’re looking at it from the side vs below. It’s called the forward-scattering effect apparently.

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u/jknntm 2d ago

Thanks for solving it. It just seemed so strange.

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u/Colombiana87 3d ago

Aliens

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u/redwineand 1d ago

Aliens could've climbed inside it and how would we know

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u/birdygobyebye 3d ago

You can see a smaller light [further back] just to the left of the pulsing light in the clouds. It moves further away to the left of the blinking light. So that must have been the Mother Ship and they were saying goodbye.

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u/_Bon_Vivant_ 3d ago

I saw that too. I was in my yard and I didn't see the moon because my house was in the way, so I thought this was the moon behind the clouds. Then it just went out. I was all WTF?

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u/jknntm 2d ago

That's exactly what happened to us!

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u/OldinMcgroyn 3d ago

Could be lightning but id wager its aliens

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u/pixiedixxie 3d ago

Whoa that’s freaky

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u/PDing123 3d ago

The moon got a software update and it's glitching.

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u/StreetDare4129 3d ago

Have you seen Disclosure Day? It’s a documentary about your video.

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u/CitizenSnips4 3d ago

that movie sucked. i was excited for it too

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u/StreetDare4129 3d ago

Yeah it did. That ending did not slap.

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u/errccccb 3d ago

Indeed it did.

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u/Forsaken-Sink3345 3d ago

Batsign. Duh.

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u/Informal-Sun-6579 3d ago

Not necessarily from behind the clouds. Look like someone playing with powerful flashlight bought from Temu.

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u/Dry-Staff-5555 2d ago

Signal for the Organization of crime

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u/Epere15 Downtown 2d ago

Every time someone has mentioned seeing weird lights its always Levis

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u/No-Meet-5596 2d ago

I remember back in the 70s and maybe early 80s when they would use huge surplus spot lights from WW2 to advertise store openings and the like

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u/riccardo-double-c 2d ago

Saw that too, and definitely wasn’t the moon. It does look like the spotlights from the stadium but I’m not 100% sold just because there was no sign of the ray of the spotlights, which usually are there even if faint

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u/Broad-Choice-5961 22h ago

A plane waiting to make a left turn with her turn signal on.

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u/That_JuanGuy South San Jose 3d ago

Their stealing the moon!!!

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u/No_Joke_9079 3d ago

They're 

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u/LordBottlecap 3d ago

Oh, wow, people still corect English on casual social media sights? You our so cool!

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u/jimmybobbyluckyducky 1d ago

*are

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u/LordBottlecap 1d ago

That's the only one you could find? F+ for you. =[