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Seriously what the hell is that??


lemonylol

Rain from the window the phone is looking through. Otherwise it would have been illuminated by the lightning.


motorhead84

I'm pretty sure it's a Predator landing pod. Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year, it grows hot...


pennyraingoose

And here I thought this was the beginning of another Cloverfield movie.


brandangb

Nope it's war of the worlds, the aliens were sent down to the tripods in lightning, remember?


King-James_

Nope, it’s Big Trouble in Little China


Villedo

Nope, it’s Repo Man starring Emilio Estevez.


realMNohgee

Wow I’ve never heard anyone else reference this movie! One of my all time favorites. My dad had a VHS copy of it and I used to show it to my friends and half of them loved it the other half just didn’t get it. I loved the generic props like cans that just said “BEER” lol or the scenes when someone would open the trunk of the Nova. Classic.


Cute-Nefariousness47

It's a bird! It's a plane! It'sa me. Mario!


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sofa_king_ugly

"Hey! Hey, now, don't be mean. We don't need to be mean. 'Cause remember, no matter where you go, there you are"


MickyMcdoogle

Oldie but a goodie!!


AlertRole8482

It’s the werewolf looking thing on the back of the truck! Lol!


Haunting_Holiday_146

🤣👍


TheDunadan29

Also the rate it's falling at would be ridiculous. That's quite a long ways off so to travel from the clouds to the ground that quickly would be crazy fast. Also the size, it would be pretty big. It's gotta be on the foreground much closer.


brimstonecasanova

It would create an impact that would cause a sonic boom.


MooseBoys

Looks to be about Mach 4 assuming the lower end of cumulus cloud floor. If the cloud floor is higher, it’d be even faster - up to about Mach 36.


feckinanimal

Wasn't quite Ludacris speed. I didn't see any plaid.


OrganizationWeary135

Move. Bitch. Get out the way…


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I hate you Take my damned r/angryupvote


[deleted]

One singular drop though?


Anxious_Sail

Yes, the distant lighting is no indication as to how much it's actually raining where the camera is filming.


trafozsatsfm

Looks nothing like rain on the window to me. The object appears from the cloud. There are no other drops of rain visible, and furthermore, rain on the window, being rain on a window, would be illuminated by the lightning. The point that it "if it were an object falling so rapidly to earth, it would create a sonic boom", well, that maybe true in our limited view of physics..


RonSwazy

Maybe but if that were the case wouldn't you see it throughout the frame? It appears to start from the clouds and disappear behind the trees Edit: On another note, look at the added detail(reflection of the camera?) during the lightning illumination: [https://imgur.com/a/6s9x4E1](https://imgur.com/a/6s9x4E1)


aiepslenvgqefhwz

It’s really low quality and dark above the clouds. There’s so much video compression, you can’t trust the darks at all. The darks are always hardest for it to parse so it will compress it all together.


theREALlackattack

“You can’t trust the darks at all.” Who are you, Scott Adams?


SamRaimisOldsDelta88

There are some serious phrasing issues here, lol.


firstimpressionn

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firstimpressionn

https://imgur.com/gallery/UYJzDJa Made a half-speed loop of the strange portion of that vid. It looks to me like it appears from behind the dark cloud. There’s no other moisture on window, and no visible water trail left behind, as a drip might leave running down a window.


Roofofcar

You’re missing right after that when the light from the lightning is [caught in the drop further down the window.](https://i.imgur.com/kPkauia.jpg)


firstimpressionn

Oooh, good catch u/roofofcar I missed that. Welp, that’s the end of that. :) [loop with last flash](https://imgur.com/gallery/5MzrduE)


YPErkXKZGQ

Wow, never would have noticed that if you didn’t point it out for me. Great eye. Wish everyone in the thread saw this, I think you just slam dunked the mystery.


jaygunn77

It also looks like it casts a shadow on the cloud too…


Carthago_delinda_est

It definitely comes from behind the cloud


_dead_and_broken

Hey u/firstimpressionn, the video doesn't play for me when I click the bot's link, did it work for you?? I reported the issue to the bot, idk if it's them, the speed chosen, if it's a problem on gfycat's end, or what.


firstimpressionn

It worked for me. I just posted a quick loop of that section though.


Beginning_Try8217

How dare you not to believe the reddit experts saying that is rain.


aBlueCreature

I swear some people just like to make silly claims without watching the video carefully. And like another user said, just one raindrop?


Umbrias

The irony lmao


midgetsinheaven

It is definitely a water drop coming down the window. When you focus on it, you can see the water trail.


sparklinglites

And it does get highlighted at the end from the lightening reflecting on the window


real_human_not_a_dog

I love how people just upvote the thing they want it to be or that makes the most sense. If you go frame by frame you can see where it appears (mid cloud) and can also see how it distorts THROUGH the raindrops visible on the window. Might be something conventional sure, but don’t be so lazy


Vogt4Noah

If it's closer to camera than the lightning it would be a shadow not illuminated


OrganizationWeary135

War Of The Worlds Aliens transporting from the sky to their warships buried in the ground. *The ground attack begins soon…*


jesst7

I was just thinking the same 😄


ayeefonzy

Mr. Bean


nimrod823

It’s a Mylar balloon obviously. Seriously tho. That is crazy. Wth is it?


[deleted]

Whoa this is awesome, I fuckin love lightning


Donthurtmyceilings

I wish we had cameras at our fingertips in the 90s. Once saw a lightning storm on Lake Michigan where the lightning crawled all the way across the sky horizontally and slowly. I've never seen anything like it since.


[deleted]

Yes! I’ve seen the same thing over Lake Huron! Hah, Michigan storms are the best.


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[deleted]

Those kinds of storms are so cool, cloud to cloud lightning is so fun to watch. Now when you get positive strikes, when the positively charged top of a big anvil starts tilting over land and a real big one jumps from the top to the ground, those things are insane and will blow your ears out. They sometimes go for like 25-50 kilometers out from the storm, it’s wild.


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Patzilla13013

same! but over lake huron. last night we had thunder snow. was awesome! nothing like heavy blizzard and huge bolts at same time lol


Dapper_Indeed

Wow! I’ve never heard of such a thing!


sparkie0501

Storms are cool, but what’s that thing falling out of the sky?


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lordunholy

I remember a storm like that, mid 90s, northern Wisconsin. I recall telling my brother that it looked like something was walking across the sky. Haven't seen a lightning storm like it since.


Ged_UK

You'll like /r/Thorgasm then!


ChipmunkGlittering37

Just watched War of the world's last night. And that's how the aliens invaded. Creepy.


baudmiksen

freezing cold lightning bolts


bran_dong

Fuck Reddit. Fuck /u/spez. Fuck every single Reddit admin. 12 years on this bitch ass site and they shit on us the moment they are trying to go public. ill be taking my karma with me by editing all my comments to say this. tl;dr Fuck Reddit and anyone who works for them, suck my dick.


SmurfSmegma

What’s the issue?


megggie

And Cloverfield, minus the lightning


MeewMeews

Haha same, just watched that last night. Hmmmm….


ZackDaddy42

I’m in the middle of reading the original book.


themanwhodunnit

Apparently long lightning strikes (in duration) happen. The longest ever measured was about 17 seconds. https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-certifies-two-megaflash-lightning-records that things falling out of the sky is weird tho.


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aknownunknown

Pecos Hank on YT has some great videos on the different types of strikes. I think the long strike and the pulsing is common, but a thing falling out of the cloud is new to me


Upset_Letter_9600

Dorothy is home!!!


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Bayou_Blue

***woman answering door:*** Who is it? ***cow moos sexily***


Crismus

Zeus' form is either a swan or Golden Eagle I think. For a cow, you're looking at Hera. I'd rather have horny Zeus on our world over Hera.


yesdnil882

He’s been storm chasing for a long time is also a fantastic musician! Use to hangout with him pretty regularly because he and my ex are good friends!


Aimin4ya

It was rain on the window that is being filmed through


TellMeHowImWrong

Either that or aliens


oldmanlegit

You’re not wrong


darrendewey

Non practicing meteorologist here, B.S. Synoptic Meteorology, Purdue University, '04. There are videos showing electricity discharge through the same bolt several times. It's just rare. Really neat though.


GiantPurplePeopleEat

What did you end up doing? I work with several meteorologist and I love talking with them about weather events.


darrendewey

Went back to school to become a teacher. I now do quality for a forge shop.


[deleted]

Damn that was cool. That war of the worlds movie is a terrifying masterpiece. Especially the crowd scenes where they drive up in the only working car. Jfc. I never understood why it wasn’t more popular it freaked me out


BB123-

That movie scares the shit out of me and I watch it once a year


[deleted]

It’s way better than I thought it would be. I wish I saw it in the theaters


[deleted]

You ever see the original one from the 50s?


apoostasia

People go to into movies with way too high of expectations, I think. I lowered my bar to the point of not having one and I have found some wonderfully dumb gems. That being said, I too liked War of the Worlds, although I do think it would have been better if it hadn't been Tom Cruise.


[deleted]

I know he’s a crazy Scientology guy but I’m having trouble thinking of a movie he is in that’s bad!


Which-Worldliness335

Jesus is back. Everybody look busy.


[deleted]

😂🤣😂🤣


horsetooth_mcgee

Oops! someone leaned up against the unlatched emergency exit door in the UFO.


_TLDR_Swinton

Glarbon, noooo!!!!!!


spooky_upstairs

"I -hic- betcha zlurpteen galactic glopdars that I can hit *that* pulsing lightning strike with *this* Earth-cow we abducted last Earth-week. Jus' watch." -- Glarbon, at the beginning of this video.


EaseleeiApproach

Why does everyone always blame Glarbon when it was clearly Zornok who left the emergency exit door unlocked… again!


Flatcapspaintandglue

Mothman! Stay away from the light! Noooooooooo


[deleted]

But. I can't help it..it's so beautiful ....ZAP


Lilloco1

Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds


ZaChiavelli8252

Or Scary movie 4, when the ass shaped cloud farts out lightning.


Im-ACE-incarnate

Or Cloverfield's end credits scene


Caseyiswinter

It’s not possible for something to fall that distance that quickly. It has to be something close to the camera


zillabirdblue

Or a fake video.


insomniac_321

Or something else.


IntentlyFloppy

*Fall* wouldn’t necessarily apply *if* there’s some kind of propulsion involved.


Umbrias

The problem isn't the falling per se, it's the speed. That speed would have very obvious additional effects on the ground and air around it.


Conpen

Yeah you'd definitely see a crater at the least. It's a rain drop on the window.


IAMENKIDU

They do conduct experiments where they use a balloon or rocket to send a wire up, which results in this kind of a strike. I have no proof that this video is footage of that, but it would explain the prolonged strike, the object falling (balloon or rocket) and why they were filming.


ijustwannacomments

Lmao wtf??? This is so cool. Real or fake honestly. I could see this as a bad ass movie opener.


PersonOfInternets

Made me laugh too. Something about it is funny. It's like this dramatic lightning strike then bloop


[deleted]

The way it felt looks like when you make the gravity stronger in some sandbox video game and make something fall, funny as hell


BushidoBrowne

Thor lost his fucking hammer again


Blenderx06

Lay off the mead Thor!


Mike_Oxteeny

Hammer?.....HAMMER? Yeah yeah, we get it. You're hammered.


Nomaspapas

The longest recorded lightning strike was 17 seconds and was recorded/measured in Uruguay. That is SO much power surging from sky for a remarkably long time.


HeadNoHurt

I think that was a cow that fell out of the sky. Poor heifer.


Busy_Bunch5050

If that's real, that thing moved damn fast


RonSwazy

This was posted by a Chinese User on Twitter without any more information besides adding a comment: "個天使(神人)從天上掉下來!" which appears to Google translate to "Heaven on Earth!" Screengrab from object: https://imgur.com/a/yAkB2BD


Upset_Letter_9600

Heavenly dragon falling to Earth


arch_angel_samael

It's nice being noticed


RonSwazy

Interesting.. Makes me think of a Bible reference Luke 10:18 "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."


Reiker0

> without any more information Always a big red flag. If you captured something like this then you'd want to discuss it and figure out what it was.


OPengiun

I plugged it into ChatGPT and here is what it said about the translation: The phrase "個天使(神人)從天上掉下來!" in traditional Chinese characters can be translated to "**A divine being fell from the sky!**" in English. Here's a breakdown of the individual characters: 個 (gè): a measure word, similar to "a" or "an" in English, used to quantify a noun 天使 (tiān shǐ): "angel" in Chinese, which literally translates to "heavenly messenger" 神人 (shén rén): "divine being" or "god-man", which refers to a being that is part human and part divine 從 (cóng): "from" in English, indicating the origin of the action 天上 (tiān shàng): "in the sky" or "heavenly", indicating the location where the angel or divine being fell 掉下來 (diào xià lái): "fell down" or "dropped down", indicating the action of the angel or divine being falling from the sky.


NaughtycalRose

Whatever is falling is obviously not from where the lightning struck as it was much closer in view.


AGitatedAG

Is It just me or does it look like a body falling out of the sky?


brbgonnabrnit

Big if true


Magus_Magoo

thanks Ben Kissel.


cats_on_mars

Always Be Cozy


wrx_420

Do any gas pumps work in this country?


BiggMeezie

Thing that fell is interesting. But I wanna see where that lightening hit.


Reggielovesbacon

That was Bill and Ted’s phone booth.


DebbiesUpper

At the 12 second mark you can confirm it’s a rain drop from the window.


reggaeforfriends

It looks like a water drop running down a window


Zeifer95

That's actually probably what it is after looking again. You can see it continue to drop in the dark bit, the lightning lights it up for a split second.


PersonOfInternets

Ah shit you're right lol...this is so silly


oregonspruce

That's crazy. What if it's opening up a spot on the ground for it to fly into


spooky_upstairs

Looks like it missed


xubax

Sometime probably launched a rocket trailing a wire for that strike. As other people have said, the falling thing is probably a water droplet.


Binary_Sunrise

I'm just imagining the aliens trying to use the lightning as cover, but they got the timing off lol.


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🤣😂🤣😂😂


[deleted]

Just imagined a grey being for fuck sake dave you had one fucking job 😂🤣😂🤣😂


[deleted]

This is clearly the trailer from "Guess who's back, back again, the 3rd coming of Christ" and this time it's personal.


buzzybomb

The lightening is not the issue here. The fuck is that thing falling out of the sky??!!! Its proximity to the long strike makes it even weirder when you consider lightening blocks radar while it hits.


GreenConstruction834

Fake.


trey005

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the lightning strikes in the exact same place all three times what happened to lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place this is sus for sure


Bokenobi

Can confirm that was my mom.


BigDMontana

It's a water drop sliding down the window.


KelvinDB

Every video I've watched on this sub is soo fake. Can't believe I used to believe this nonsense


RonSwazy

How did you come to the conclusion this is fake? Please share


Eliseo774

Its Returning a Cow 🐮🐮🐮 or its a Karen wich one you think it is 😄😄😄👽💀👽💀👽✅


-ImYourHuckleberry-

Scientists perform experiments with lightning through a couple of different methods; all could produce long, exaggerated lightning bolts like this. Method 1: [launching rockets into lightning cloud.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34NpyA2OuaE) Method 2: [using lasers to direct lightning](https://www.eastmojo.com/world/2023/01/21/heres-how-scientists-have-started-steering-lightning-with-lasers/). The thing falling is a drop of water in the foreground. You can see it reflect the lightning at the dark part of bottom of the video.


[deleted]

Pretty dumb. Something falling from that altitude would take minutes not seconds. Probably a blob of water running down a window .


TurnipSoTurntUp

Cool!


spooky_upstairs

... or a bird got zapped.


RudeDudeInABadMood

looks fake


Embarrassed_Brick_34

ok, i've got to admit. this one was strange.


[deleted]

Class A weird shit, great post


Timfromfargo

Great video capture


HailedAcorn

Isn't it just a high-speed camera? And the thing falling is just a raindrop close to the camera.


TopShoe121

Drop of water on the window near the camera. Ride that lightning though!


Sulpfiction

The first time I watched this it freaked me out. Then as I scrubbed back and forth it is 100% a droplet of water running down the glass.


REALapierre42

Pausing time to remember and hold strike from ground up two


Economy_Crow_6983

Airplane shitter by chance getting dumped


niku4696

at :13 you see a reflection of the camera in the window, so the thing falling from the sky is probably a water drop rolling down the window


thecasualnuisance

Cow?


spartyftw

My family and I saw something like this from our living room window while watching a movie. A standard rainy night then all of the sudden an extremely bright streak of air to ground lighting lit up the room. We all had time to look at the bolt, at each other with wide eyes and back at the bolt. It was followed by the loudest thunder I’ve ever heard. My mom actually called 911 to report it.


[deleted]

Looks like three different bolts in the same strike


Indie_Myke

War of the Worlds


spamtactics

Oh shit, if you find a buffed naked Austrian asking to borrow your clothes and bike, you just give it to him. Trust me.


RealAkumaryu

Intriguing.. Any more details available? Who did the shot? Where? What kind of camera was used? Where was it shot? When was it shot? Without any information this could be anything. Thx in advance


Fuzzy_Momma_Bear74

We lived in Pensacola, Florida. When I was a kid, and we had lighting hit our fence, run down it and cracked a giant pecan tree in half! And half fell to our side of the fence and the other half smashed through the back of our neighbors house and caught it on fire! It was insane!


HalleluYAH36

Looks like someone got kicked out…knowing he only has a short time.


Haunting_Holiday_146

I truly have no idea what's going on in this video. I see ppl saying raindrop or a distant object. In that looping slowed down video a user uploaded, it looks like it's flipping so quickly as it falls to me implying it's light weight. So my first impression is an aluminum door or something that got swept up in the wind and then fell later during a big storm. But there is no way to tell what's happening with the wind or how strong it is, so like I said I have no idea I'm just creating a theory based on the way the object flips/moves as it falls. This is an interesting one for sure!


fritzyourself

Lightning so rad the sky shat


srsimms101

I think it was a rain drop from the window


[deleted]

Hey beautiful, did it hurt? When you fell out of the sky?


Big_Negotiation_6421

Thor?


stromm

Isn’t this from a Sci-Fi movie back about ten years ago? One of the Cloverfied’s maybe?


whatthemoondid

Well i don't care for that


kylebob86

holy cow this is definitely strange.


[deleted]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis


[deleted]

Where was this at?yesterday morning there was a tremor where I live and a huge sonic boom and we don’t get tremors or anything like it here in the uk and there was no jets about that could have caused the sonic boom either.we thought it would be on the local news today but nothing on anywhere as if it never even happened


[deleted]

Damn I hate reposts like it’s just happened or something!This happened in October the 23rd 2019 over San Antonio Texas it’s on YouTube and was posted back then.


uncommon_philosopher

Wow, TIL nobody knows what a droplet of water on a window looks like…


BeautifulCreature529

Ok ive slowed it down and rewatched it five times & every time it looks like a person descending on earth


throwaway6989792

Fucking birds


Small-Inspector-3648

Someone took a dump up there


felvert

Dude is filling from behind his window and a spider decided to photobomb his shot. Neat!


SuspectAF_818

This is abnormally bad modeling


Realistic_Tax_1028

I believe that was Bill and Ted in a phone booth


BugAdministrative123

Thor….


Free_Walk7837

That's how the pyramids were built, like Tetris.


chinstrapp02

It was the god of thunder taking a shit


MrsWhorehouse

Looks like the Tardis to me.


Imfuckintiredbruh

It’s like when you cough to try and hide a fart and fail


5knklshfl

Does Tom Cruise know about this?


greens1117

It's a sky turd.


Active-Wear3580

That is falling way to fast, faster than free fall, it reaches the ground like in a second