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Strange night lights - SBH - 05-20-2014
Aloha nui loa,
I'd like to share some images shot by my automatic motion detector security camera at the front gate of my property in Hawaiian Acres on April 14, 2014 between midnight and 2:21 am.
Appears to be a powerful beam of light coming down vertically from the sky and moving for almost 2-1/2 hours in the middle of the night. There appear to be some kind of spherical shapes in some of the photos also (it wasn't raining that night). Everyone I've showed them to has ruled out helicopters (midnight to 2:21am?), headlights (would be horizontal), moonbeam (light is too powerful and wrong part of sky).
The images were captured hours after the blood moon and lunar eclipse which makes it even more interesting. The moon was in the south west sky when these were shot. The camera is looking towards the East near the top of Ainaloa.
http://punatics.com/nightlights.html
I had to reduce the size of the photos as they are too large and there are too many of them to post online as is. So they are combined into 4 images 6" x45", still pretty large!
I don't have an opinion as to what it is, I'm just calling it an unsolved mystery and thought I'd share it with my neighbors to see what you think. Aloha.
RE: Strange night lights - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 05-20-2014
You definitely have a Jedi apprentice training in your yard at night. Remember when Obi Wan helped Luke practice his light sabre skills (the vertical lights in your photos) with a hovering round practice ball as they traveled in the Millennium Falcon to Mos Eisley (I believe)? Your yard Jedi must be fairly advanced though, as he's taking on 3 of those things at once. Whatever you do, don't interrupt him, those light sabres can sting, even at a low setting.
RE: Strange night lights - PaulW - 05-20-2014
The spherical objects are most likely water on the camera.
RE: Strange night lights - SBH - 05-20-2014
Yes, that's the first thing that comes to mind for the circles, but it was dry that night like it's been lately and the circles aren't in every photo. I have hundreds of images on rainy days and don't see circles like that on those images so I'm not so sure. Can't rule out water drops though. I didn't really pay much attention to the circles originally, that beam of light is what got our attention. Must be that Jedi.
RE: Strange night lights - Midnight Rambler - 05-20-2014
The spherical "objects" are refraction from the other light hitting the lens. Note that they're in nearly, but not exactly, the same position in each frame; that's because the beam of light is hitting each lens element at a slightly different angle in the different shots. That's also why you don't see them in the IR-only images (in the ones at 12:30 the light is clearly near the lens, although the streak isn't visible).
Possibly the main streak is somebody waving a laser pointer? You can use them to point out stars so it wouldn't be surprising if someone was using it on that night. It would be quite a coincidence to hit your camera that many times by accident from a neighboring lot, but if it's not camoflaged someone might have targeted it, or a tree in your yard (I've done that to see how far mine can reach, though I always make sure to keep it up in the canopy).
RE: Strange night lights - Bullwinkle - 05-21-2014
side to side streaks are usually bugs, up and down streaks usually water droplets
common displays on infra red cameras or cameras set for time exposures
RE: Strange night lights - geochem - 05-21-2014
I see those all the time on my video feed at night - spider webs show up really well in the infrared images. I have to go clean the front of the camera about once a week to keep them from constantly triggering the motion activated recording. Makes it a real nuisance scanning the records when I am away for a few days.
RE: Strange night lights - SBH - 05-21-2014
That makes perfect sense Midnight Rambler. I believe the mystery of the circles in the photos has been solved.
The jury is still out on the beam of light though and that is the main focus of this mystery. That light is coming down vertically through a grove of rainbow eucalyptus trees that are 50 feet tall and the one tree in the images is over a foot wide. That beam of light is a minimum of a foot wide and much wider in some images.
It would take quite a bit of energy to create a laser that powerful. Look how wide it is and the glow coming off of it. I've only seen red and green laser pointers, I have never seen white. The camera is camouflaged and in the canopy of the rainbow eucalyptus.
I have no neighbors within 800 ft of me and my three acres is surrounded by ohia forest with no views of any neighbors, very private. I doubt someone's going to shine a light for 2 hours and 20 minutes in the middle of the night at my rainbow eucalyptus trees.
Also, I have 3 large german shepards (100 to 140 pounds) that bark at anything that comes near our property our even drives by. They didn't bark at all that night.
The only explanation that makes any sense regarding the light is from a helicopter, but that still makes no sense to be above my property from midnight to 2:21 am. Whatever it was it was flying over the community, not just my property. Must have been the Midnight Rambler!
RE: Strange night lights - SBH - 05-21-2014
I haven't cleaned the lens and that only showed up for 2-1/2 hours. Hasn't been seen since then.
RE: Strange night lights - pahoated - 05-21-2014
Well, this is making big news this morning:
http://khon2.com/2014/05/20/what-were-the-lights-in-the-sky/
What were the lights in the sky?
The parabolic ballistic trajectory is becoming obsolete. Also, visual surveillance satellites need clear daylight to see what is happening on the ground, which they can't do at night. I think we who live on Hawaii island get used to the feeling when 90% of the time is totally silent of industrial noises. So things like helicopters and missile launches upset that calm, just like neighbors moving in next door with 8 hunting hounds. There are going to be many more different sightings over the islands, especially going into summer with RIMPAC.
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