Agreed. Ground lights shining through the low clouds/fog. Nothing to see here. Move along.

I hope this helps some.

Back in the mid 90s, here in West Texas, the same phenomenon occurred as we stood out in our front yard on an overcast night. We saw the exact same display of light in the western sky. It absolutely freaked us out! As it turned out, 20 miles away was an oil rig fire with flames plummeting up into the clouds, causing this whitish glow with an extended red haze. The projection of the fire, illuminated by the clouds, made the light appear exactly like that, that the soldiers are capturing on their recorder.

As for D4rk Kn1ght's posts, I have read those and like John Titor’s's posts, when someone comes up trying to convince people of something and the very core of what they advocate is surrounded by so much vagueness, as was the case with Titor’s and D4rk Kn1ght's posts, you can pretty well determine their going in circles and repeating the same thing over and over without specifics is a good sign they are just passing the time, amusing themselves at the expense of others.

NVG enhanced natural star light as well as camera shake.....thats what we're seeing

In my opinion, at first glance, they don't seem like streaky light pillars.

After learning more and more about these things, and seeing numerous pics online, I'm leaning towards the pillar theory as well.

I'd love to be proved wrong, trust me :-)

I don't buy the whole "light pillars" idea. Out of all these "light pillar" pics, none look like the ones in the video. And how easily you people forget when comparing the two, is that the video is in night-vision, remember?. None of these pics of "light pillars" are taken with night-vision. So given those two things, how can you honestly or accurately compare the two?
I honestly have no idea what these things in the video are nor have I seen them anywhere before.

Not all 'light pillars' are the same. Some look like a beam going straight up, some are interrupted/dotted beams, and some are like what we see in the video.

They can be very dim or very bright, depending (I think) on how clear the air is.

I saw some this morning and thought about this thread and all the people that are going to insist that it's something unnatural.

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I think that this thred (and video icluded) is interesting, but doesn't 21 flags IMO.


I just think that it's nothing paranormal and it's only a lack of knowledge of how ligh rays shine off of ice crystals. I think the video just shows light pillars, but I'm not an expert on light replection/refraction, so I could be wrong.

I'm not saying I'm right either, I'm just saying that this thread is basically 'solved'.

Hi all....I was a combat medic with the Big Red One in Iraq during OIF II....We had to pull re-trans duty for a week at a time on the Iran/Iraq border....Out there in the middle of nowhere the sky was totally devoid of light pollution. MANY MANY MANY times we would lay out under the stars with our nods on and watch the sky. Any given night we would see things like this...We would also see what we called "dancers" because the lights would just dance all over the sky....What we were seeing were not satellites because they were not in a geosynchronous orbit, nor were they planes of any kind....Some of you might think they were just meteors or space junk but they didn't burn out, they would just dance all over the sky or like in the video just sit there....I am not going to say that they were UFOs but whatever they were they put on one hell of a show!!!!


Edit....Please keep in mind that we were hours away from anything and I do mean ANYTHING!!!! Also we would lay on our cots and watch the sky from straight on, not at an angle or dead with the horizon...Also you would not believe what all you can see in the sky with nods....It really is quite remarkable.

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I've read every post and what no one has seemed to think of is that maybe it's coming from the sky and not hanging or shining up.

the distance these are covering and the way they are all vertical looks as hough lights are coming DOWN and are visible as they punch through the clouds. The bright spots would be where the clouds are at there thickest.

Now what in the heck could be shining down though? I've heard of many strange stories and many theories of all the different weapons or intelligence gathering devices and this could be a "star wars" type contraption.

How many "machines" in space have people seen recently and discussed?

The light pillars don't match this and the crystals being aligned toward the viewpoint just isn't cutting it for me at this point either.

Normally I don't get strange feelings over "strange things" but this one does that to me..

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I would say they are sun pillars or zodiacal light. Worshiped by the Egyptians as part ofThe Sun God Ra.Obelisks and maybe the pyramids were made because of them is my guess.