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Flashing Lights

sam3110
sam3110 Posts: 21,271
edited April 2012 in Not Sports Related
Anyone know what the flashing light in tonights sky is? Happens every couple of minutes, almost like a light outside being switched on and off.

I have seen it in Mottingham, and my sister has seen in in Greenwich, as well as various sightings around South East London being announced on twitter. Are we being targeted by aliens, or is there a more reasonable explanation to this?
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  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Lightning
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,271
    Very funny, but the reason I brought it up as it's nothing like Lightning I have ever seen, the whole sky goes bright and for more than a split second, and it's been very regular. There's been no sign of any thunder either, so is it a special type of lightning, and am I just too used to seeing a solitary bolt? Or is it something completely unrelated?
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,851
    I don't mean to be rude... But are you serious?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    I thought the same here in Swanley.............looked out about 10 mins ago to see if it was lightening as I hadn't heard any thunder.
  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169
    Local weirdo forgot to turn the flash off his camera...
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    I'm working at baker st underground station tonight and was wondering the same thing.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    The body snatchers have arrived. Do not go to sleep!
  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169
    While we're at it, I think there is some water falling out of the sky but it is stopping and starting...Any idea ?
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,181
    sam - sometimes when the storms are many miles away, you can see the lightning flashes but there is no thunder to be heard.

    It is most likely that that is what you are experiencing as they talked of "isolated" thunder storms this evening. The fact that they seem regular flashes is because being that far away, you are seeing all the flashes from the whole storm, rather than when the storm is close by, when you mainly see only those close to where you are nut more intensively.

    Hopefully that makes sense.
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Thunder and lightning. Now rest your weary head
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  • moleo88
    moleo88 Posts: 303
    I'd be happier thinking the aliens are here, i mean they might take Iain Dowie for one of their own.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    It was lightening, in enfield last night we had the maddest weather I have ever seen

    Firstly a hail storm hit with the biggest hardest hail I have ever seen


    And then lightening I think they call it sheet lightening as it seemed to go theft opposite way to normal lightening ,
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,097
    Brilliant, forum gold!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    I missed the lights last night, but I woke up to see giant flowers marching across my lawn this morning.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    I noticed this last night and briefly wondered if it was lightning. About 10 mins later, it started chucking down, so there was my answer...........................alien invasion.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    Is this thread what the newspapers call "the silly season" ?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    Is this thread what the newspapers call "the silly season" ?
    Take your pick. There's plenty on here to choose from...............................
  • C4FC4L1f3
    C4FC4L1f3 Posts: 1,917
    if it was misty sometimes the sky gets lit up by the trains. with the sparks from the tracks?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    That's just stupid. We all know aliens don't drive trains.......................
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    BBC RADIO KENT ‏ @BBCRADIOKENT
    Owing to signalling problems between #HitherGreen and #Lewisham fewer trains are able to run and there are delays of around 15 minutes.


    Hmmmmmmmmm...............
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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    On a similar vein I was driving in this morning and noticed there was some grey fluffy stuff that was really low, this grey stuff slightly obscured my view when I was driving, any ideas what this phenomenon is?
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    If we all start agreeing with each other then we know something is seriously wrong.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Were the lights anything to do with all the security stuff they are doing around the Olympics?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,226
    Anyone know what the flashing light in tonights sky is? Happens every couple of minutes, almost like a light outside being switched on and off.

    I have seen it in Mottingham, and my sister has seen in in Greenwich, as well as various sightings around South East London being announced on twitter. Are we being targeted by aliens, or is there a more reasonable explanation to this?
    Blimey, I'm glad you mentioned that. I was out the back garden having a quick smoke last week and there was a lighting type strobe appearing every 30 seconds or a minute, I wasn't timing it but I was definitely transfixed by it. This is 100% true. Im with you sam i did wonder what it was but completely forgot all about it as went away next day.
  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    I'm a season ticket holder, and when i asked if i could buy a seat where i usually sit, they said it was not available.
    What's that all about?
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    edited May 2012
    Anyone know what the flashing light in tonights sky is? Happens every couple of minutes, almost like a light outside being switched on and off.

    I have seen it in Mottingham, and my sister has seen in in Greenwich, as well as various sightings around South East London being announced on twitter. Are we being targeted by aliens, or is there a more reasonable explanation to this?
    Blimey, I'm glad you mentioned that. I was out the back garden having a quick smoke last week and there was a lighting type strobe appearing every 30 seconds or a minute, I wasn't timing it but I was definitely transfixed by it. This is 100% true. Im with you sam i did wonder what it was but completely forgot all about it as went away next day.
    The original tower at Canary Wharf has a lighthouse type beam that flashes every night. Depends on the night sky cloud coverafe as to how bright it appears.

    Last night was lightening though, thr type you get in summer, very blue and there was a lot more lightening than thunder.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    there was a light almost like a lighthouse type light strobe one night last week going into the sky. not lightening, it was like a helicopter search light but going up instead of down? as driving from new eltham towards lee, I would have said it was over Bromley way the direction it was coming from. weird.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    Van Susans were filming the video for their next single "Fireworks"
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    I saw the strobe driving late last week and just presumed it was from canary wharf
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    I saw the strobe driving late last week and just presumed it was from canary wharf
    It is.
    There's nothing to see here. Move on. That's what the MOD said to me.

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