I've seen these flashes of light too. I believe they are dry lightening bolts - electricity - energy in the air. I don't believe they have anything to do with UFO's.

My son and I were out tonight and we were looking up at the perfectly clear, star lit night...no moon. We saw a series of flashes that seemed to be in the atmosphere. People have been describing them as lighting like or camera flash type lights in the sky. I have to say these were very strange...non rhythmic lights...some brighter and more spasmodic in frequency and would light up the night sky on some of the more powerful flashes. I am thinking that these might be either a reaction to some kind of charged particles in the higher atmosphere caused by either the sun or some other mechanism creating electrical charging or discharging. Has anyone else seen such a display? My son and I watched for over an hour...with no end seemingly in sight. We live in the northeast near Lake Winnipesaukee and the lights seemed to be emanating from the northeast skies....but really it was hard to pinpoint them since they seemed to charge the entire sky. The time was around 11:00pm.

i think ive seen these to op
a flash in the sky no apparent source but above the clouds
it only ever is bright around the clouds to,doesnt really light everything
and rarely a noise. so i kinda lean away from lighting ... but icould be wrong??
is that what u see?

Hey, i'm from Nelson, New Zealand, and about a week and a half ago i was on a beach with my friend and i was so positive i saw one of these camera flash things... its been bugging me ever since... sounds like its all over the world!

I experienced this the other night not long after reading a thread here on ATS ( I can't remember the thread title but one of the early replies suggested a transformer blowing and had a video to use as an example).

Anyhow it was around 2am and I was on the PC as usual flicking between ATS Football Manager and a football forum.

I had the house in darkness and the blinds where closed when my front room lit up for a second, I thought it maybe some thunder an lightning so I sat looking out of the window for around 15 mins before going back inside, no more flashes and no thunder

My T.V sits in the middle section of a bay window and when the lights are out in the front room I normally see an slight orange glow seeping in from the street lamps but this light that flashed was like a brilliant white.

Location Scotland, Glasgow

Done a search for this earlier and came across this site and having read through the many replies and theories about it I decided to join.

I have been seeing these flashes for about the last couple of weeks and mostly around the hours of between 9pm and 2am and the only way I can describe them is basicly like someone has taken a photograph using a flash camera way up in the sky.

Didn't really pay too much attention to them at first, but the more I saw them, the more curious about them I became and earlier this evening whilst outside in my garden I saw a number of flashes which prompted me to do conduct my search on google and find this forum.

As they are becoming a regular occurance each evening, I am going to try and setup a camera and record a whole evening of it just pointing towards the sky in the hope that I can pick up some of these flashes and take a closer, slower more detailed look at them.

I shall let you know my findings in due course.

Hi I just came across this site looking for answers from Google. I've only just signed up so I can share what I saw only 25 minutes ago in the clear night sky in Melbourne, Australia. 15/02/12.
It was around 12:30am and I was out the front of my place having a smoke and as you usually find yourself looking up at the stars at night suddenly there was a massive flash. It was so bright it made an outline of all trees and power poles with the bright light behind them. It was so bright I could not see any stars in the sky. It only last a second but when i was looking at the flash in the night sky it felt like I may have been looking in the wrong direction. But then started thinking of what it may have been, some thoughts were angels from heaven at first, but then more like maybe a camera flash from a satellite off to the distance. I first assumed there would be clear answers online when I came inside. I waited out side for a further 10 minutes saying to myself I think I need a beer cos' there's no way I'm explaining that.. But here I am and I have explained it!

Thanks to this forum I don't feel as bad letting that off my chest.
If these lights happen regularly don't you think it's time for someone to find the answers to give all of us who witness these occurring events?? Peace!

Jamie from Melbourne.

I've seen these flashes on and off for about 7-8yrs and just like Jamie said they were so bright they lit up the trees / houses but only for a split second and then it's gone ... the first few times I thought someone had taken photos then I realized it had come from high up in the sky ... to my knowledge it's only ever happened on clear nights (at least it's always been clear when I 've seen them.

The colour of the flashes I see are blue/white.

I know this thread originally started some time back and has recently been brought back to life ... but I can't help wondering if this resurge of flashes has anything to do with the current noises in the sky ... just typing out loud

Woody:

I actually HAVE experienced this. I spend time every single night outside staring at the infinite, and often see strange wonders.

These flashes I assumed were earth based, locally, and didn't think much of it, but now that I see others are experiencing it all around the world I think I will pay closer attention the next time I experience this.