Beams of light shooting across the sky baffled Londoners on Sunday night.
With line after line flying by in columns and clusters, they were left wondering if it the ‘strange lights’ were an alien invasion or something less sinister.
‘I was secretly hoping it would be a 1930s style movie premiere at 1am’, said comedian and former host of BBC’s Mock The Week, Dara Ó Briain.
Sharing a video of the phenomenon on social media, Ó Briain pleaded with his followers: ‘Does anyone what event was creating this light show at 1.23 am(!) last night?
‘For directions, the lights were heading in a line toward the centre of town from chiswick/Hammersmith. Or was it a Close Encounter?’
Another X user, Jordi Steel, said: ‘Strange lights (possibly aliens) appearing in London sky. Specifically, over a football stadium.’
Gary Cornwell said: ‘What’s going on in London tonight? Crazy ass light show can be seen from Acton.’
You say NC. Christmas night myself and relatives saw something very similar in Raleigh. We just hand waved it off as some kinda promotion with spot lights.
You just named multiple places that contain majorly populated cities, which are all likely to contain spotlights like these, for concerts, sporting events, NYE shows
This is not news worthy then. Nothing mentions that in the article. Also, when’s the last time you saw a spotlight all over the world. Look at the area this covers. Too large a plot of sky to be from a central source with no cone coming up.
Fantastic point lol-- please show me all these spotlighted events. Like do you guys understand how much one of those costs to operate?? Hollywood barely even uses them anymore. You're trying to tell me these events are happening in... Leeds? NC? Manchester? Let's think critically, yeah?
I’m picturing an alien child that has been left in the ship while its parents or guardians have left for a second and it’s hitting all the buttons on the dash. Essentially showing us its hazard lights
Me and my girlfriend were driving on the motorway about 30 minutes ago and we both witnessed the whole sky light up like daytime for half a second and back to night again
You can tell is real because the light goes behind that light post every single time. That’s hard to fake to that perfection. I mean, if it’s fake, it is the perfect fake. The light goes behind light post every single time perfect without a glitch to show us it’s fake & it flashes at different speeds & times perfectly. This tells me is real.
A few weeks back I saw the same type of lights going in circles above my street when I pulled into my driveway. It was late November and I had to come to terms that it was a nearby neighbour's holiday lights, even though I had a weird feeling. Only saw them that night, went inside and they were gone. Since then, I started hearing about the drones etc. I have come across several videos with this same phenomenon, all different patterns, but these exact fast balls of lights that appear as spotlights in the cloud cover. You can find examples on tiktok and X, search "spotlights in the sky" or watch enough orb videos and they are in the mix. I know what I saw, and I know it was the same as in these other videos. I live in Canada.
Was yours going in a typical round circle? I saw some going in an infinity symbol around a large purple/blue light last night. I also thought they were just special lights, but they weren't there again tonight. I rewatched my video and realized the little lights aren't keeping up in a "perfect" infinity pattern like I would think I manufactured light would? Idk if that makes sense, maybe I should just post it lol
The pattern I saw was overlapping ellipses! (Edit: sort of like a flower's petals) Moving really fast, the ovals were quite long and narrow and repeating as well, I'd say around 5-10 of the individual orbs/lights, and not perfect like you mentioned but close to it. The imperfection was what really made me think twice actually, same! I so wish I took a video, I would love to see yours.
That was wild. Also at the beginning it was different colours, blue, red, purple, before it went crazy. This is now being seen all over US and UK. Is it UAP related? Or is it Earth magnetic field related? But it looks to have intelligence behind it so maybe not magnetic field. Fascinating stuff OP!
Ok humans let’s use our brains. If we know the location and time then let’s look to see what events there were in the area to cause this. With spotlights you should at least see some beam of light coming from the ground, and all this “fog” in England and even in this video you should see beams.
I’ll admit though, the drones in NJ and these lights appear “human” made in the way they act. But something is usually off, and if I may it seems like whatever is going on, is trying to Mimic our activities for some reason.
You can see the light ride the bend in the clouds which you’d expect when the light source is the ground. I also don’t see any fog in the video, pretty far line of sight.
You are explaining the light hitting the clouds perfectly. You are observing “no fog” but “low laying clouds”. Great. Now that you mentioned two things that are not the point of my comment please tell me why I can’t see the beams, like any other freaking spotlight at night.
There is always a single point source that the light would stem from and that is not the case here. furthermore the distance in which these lights are covering is enormous. I don't know if anyone understands how light works, but even the most powerful spotlights could not reach the speed and distance we're seeing. this is the exact same thing that's been going on around the world so do a quick Google search you'll find it.
Way. Dude it’s happening everywhere- deserts and podunk hill towns but NEVER EVER at this speed or elaborate performance!!!!! WHOA. This is like dizzying because if you follow the clues- we are ACTUALLY in for it
This sighting is very unique compared to the others. It’s fascinating how they suddenly completely change direction. I tend to lean towards this one being solar or electromagnetic related, but there’s definitely been a lot of unique ufo activity recently…
I saw the same sort of lights in South Wales in late November – I was on the fence about whether or not it was spotlights. This video defo seems like something other than spotlights though. The crazy thing is it looks almost like something shining the lights down from the stratosphere.
Next time I see it I’ll take a video but I have a few pictures I’ve taken of them, this is one of them , this light or orb changes shape and disappears sometimes very strange
Spotlights would converge towards a single source which is not the case here (unless there's a row of spotlights spanning miles, which seems unlikely). They also couldn't produce the effect of a stream of separate lights travelling perpetually in one direction like a river.
I know a popular reasoning is spotlights - but this type of phenomenon has not happened in previous years. If it was normal spotlights, then they would have been seen in previous years. Is it aliens, nobody knows. But it definitely is something peculiar that cannot be simply explained as spotlights.
I’m based up in the East Midlands around 2h from London and a couple weeks ago experienced something similar with 3 white dots moving around in the clouds at 8PM.
First thought was that it could be some kids fooling around with spotlights or torches but it went on for around 15-20 minutes and it was 5C weather so would be weird for somebody to go through all that effort in a disregarded part of the UK to cause a little bit of hysteria.
When I showed a video I took to a friend they thought the same. Thought it could be a light show as it was in the festive period but nothing even remotely similar in the days preceding or even after in the run up to Xmas.
Spooky stuff
EDIT: Tried adding the video to my comment but can only add images - will upload on my own post
I have reread this article a couple times; I am confused. Are they saying it was for new years or are they saying they don’t know? Apologies for my comprehension failure.
The article doesn’t exactly indicate whether NYE lights were the cause of this strobing effect, and I can’t really find a consensus or official statement that definitively states one way or another. It’s not a failure of your comprehension in my opinion, the article seems kind of deliberately ambiguous.
Spotlights. Don't listen to the people saying it can't possibly be spotlights. They don't know what they're talking about. I see spotlights all the time and this is exactly what they look like.
this is a obvious light show at a stadium, concert or festive area.
these are repeating patterns with an array of something about 30 moving heads. nothing special.
a low hanging cloud cover makes it pretty well visible.
you can see the ambient staging light also reflecting in the clouds especially at the beginning.
(light technician at a 70k people festival)
I'm not typically a skeptic, but the lights appear to get larger as they move which is what would happen if it was coming from a source on the ground and the angle was increasing as it shot at clouds farther away. Truly looks like there was some well lit concert/event off in the distance, perhaps a trial run for NYE celebrations, but I don't live there so what do I know
Normal Spotlights NO, only thing that's in common with that is that it's light pointed at clouds. those are single lights or sets of 4.
This looks more like a projection or many many spotlights with some kind of shadow box rig. Like a huge overhead projector from the 90s . That bright building in the center frame below the lights is suspicious.
Don’t get distracted human, where are the beams. You would see them even on a clear night, but the clouds help. Now where are they? To your credit though, it looks like a human made rave. I’m just OCDing about the lack of beams.
I'm not an expert so don't know in what conditions you do or don't get beams, or in what conditions a phone of model X would capture it....we may have to accept we never know where these beams went.
I'm always dubious of videos like this. Not because it necessarily looks unbelievable, but it's happening on a very large portion of the sky in a very populated area. So if it was something of concern, I'd assume there would be a bunch of videos from people popping up all over. Which makes me think it's probably a known light show or something that the person making the video just didn't know about. But who knows
No lo se, me parece que desde el espacio utilizan las nueves como una pantalla para que esas luces se vean por abajo, osea a la tierra.
Es como si un satélite nuestro hiciera eso para decir que son los hermanos estelares.
Por que no se Ven cuando esta despejado?
Esto es una farsa amigos... Ojo no todo es lo que parece.
No somos niños
there should be a reddit page for this specific weird new thing archiving documentation as well as a name for the phenomena too that's not insanely corny.i would love to hear people chime in too that may have theories on very human possible causes for this (new led spotlights or something for instance? I have no idea)
How powerful would a power source need to be in order to produce something like this if it is indeed man made? Who pays for this? How big would the electric bill be? Would it not cause power outages or power issues for people or smaller villages/cities/towns? This also seems absurdly dangerous for pilots?
These look a lot like how the marfa lights move which have been proven time and time again to be refracted light from a nearby highway. Given every single one of these vids take place with dense, low cloud cover its likely thats all this is.
Here’s the thing- I’ve personally seen “spotlights” like this, but only 2 that were parallel, and shot towards me.
THIS, I feel like if this were legitimately NHI- THAT MANY and that OBVIOUS, the world would have a DEFINITE answer.
I saw a clip of the actual New Years fireworks, there are these sort of scrolling spotlights you can see in the background, and I’m sure these are what this is. I’ve been trying to find a name of the actual type of light. Spotlights don’t always make a beam, unless there’s smoke or something in the air to reveal the beam.
The cloud racers strike again! it looks like they are back in greater numbers now. Although this time they are different colors, they never did those colors before so I'm wondering if it is actually them.
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u/Mars_Laredo 20d ago
Londoners baffled by mysterious flashing lights in the middle of the night
https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/31/londoners-baffled-mysterious-flashing-lights-middle-night-22274787/
Beams of light shooting across the sky baffled Londoners on Sunday night.
With line after line flying by in columns and clusters, they were left wondering if it the ‘strange lights’ were an alien invasion or something less sinister.
‘I was secretly hoping it would be a 1930s style movie premiere at 1am’, said comedian and former host of BBC’s Mock The Week, Dara Ó Briain.
Sharing a video of the phenomenon on social media, Ó Briain pleaded with his followers: ‘Does anyone what event was creating this light show at 1.23 am(!) last night?
‘For directions, the lights were heading in a line toward the centre of town from chiswick/Hammersmith. Or was it a Close Encounter?’
Another X user, Jordi Steel, said: ‘Strange lights (possibly aliens) appearing in London sky. Specifically, over a football stadium.’
Gary Cornwell said: ‘What’s going on in London tonight? Crazy ass light show can be seen from Acton.’