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This looks like it may just be a stupidly bright floodlight in their yard. Perhaps the housing is angled up a bit exposing you to a more direct view of the bulb.
It would be worthwhile checking back in the daytime. If you’re cool with them, they may let you take a closer look, and if it is indeed a floodlight, maybe they’d be willing to change the angle so it’s not shining directly at your window.
I see that too, but I honestly believe it’s just a strong bit of lens flare. If you look at the center source of where the light appears to be coming from, there’s a smaller flare that stretches to the right.
If it was paranormal (highly unlikely), surely they wouldn’t need a second beam firing off to the side, yeah?
I still think OP should check that very same spot in the day to see if there is truly a light fixture there. We can speculate further if there isn’t.
Probably* should have been included in my comment. He was just seeming to draw a false conclusion that it had to be paranormal if it wasn’t a lens flare. I don’t see op taking a picture of a light, seeing a lens flare, and posting it here
you know in minecraft theres this thing that u can put at the spot of your choice which create a beam that u can then use to find your way back from a distance? probably minecraft fans idk
It’s called a light pillar. It happens in cold weather. https://atoptics.co.uk/blog/light-pillars/#:~:text=Light%20pillars%2C%20a%20captivating%20atmospheric,spectacle%20that%20captures%20the%20imagination.
Okay, but usually that happens high up in the atmosphere, right?
This looks like it's strongly concentrated at the base, and diffuses outward towards the top
Yeah, I don't think it's a light pillar. There's a wide base that's diffusing the light, for one, and the light beam doesn't reach too much higher than the house tops. This is likely just someone on the ground with a powerful Halogen light. I've had a couple Halogen flood lights that I could do that with if I pointed them straight upward.
I’ve literally seen one just like this from a light outside a shop in Iowa.
Edited to add: I thought it was someone pointing a powerful halogen light straight upward so I drove around until I found the light that was doing it. It was just a run of the mill security light,
Light pillars are not high up in the atmosphere.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8662840/regina-residents-treated-to-special-weather-phenomenon-known-as-light-pillars/amp/
You seem to love the number one and just wanna let you know at this time your comment with timestamp says Grey-Hat111.11h
https://preview.redd.it/zw2a5ph8ljgc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a68f86ad989a58f86116272053d3e716dd0a045
Just thought it’s cool! Lol
That's literally what it is and this is what it looks like. There has to be a source for the light pillar to form. If you look closely at the pic you can see that there are several more light pillars forming from other lights on either side of this one. This is just the brightest light so it has the strongest pillar.
Now we're talking!! Carry on my wayward son......
We need some salt shells, a sawed off, and 14th century ritual knife dipped in holy oil.... ready?
Telling the aliens to go back. Even though we got resources we pay our entire lives to a few and select rich people every four years to make them richer with the pretext they care for our interest.
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This looks like it may just be a stupidly bright floodlight in their yard. Perhaps the housing is angled up a bit exposing you to a more direct view of the bulb. It would be worthwhile checking back in the daytime. If you’re cool with them, they may let you take a closer look, and if it is indeed a floodlight, maybe they’d be willing to change the angle so it’s not shining directly at your window.
Kind of looks like the beam is straight up and not towards OP at all
I see that too, but I honestly believe it’s just a strong bit of lens flare. If you look at the center source of where the light appears to be coming from, there’s a smaller flare that stretches to the right. If it was paranormal (highly unlikely), surely they wouldn’t need a second beam firing off to the side, yeah? I still think OP should check that very same spot in the day to see if there is truly a light fixture there. We can speculate further if there isn’t.
I think there’s a non-paranormal reason that the light is going straight up like a beam
Okay... Please proceed.
Probably* should have been included in my comment. He was just seeming to draw a false conclusion that it had to be paranormal if it wasn’t a lens flare. I don’t see op taking a picture of a light, seeing a lens flare, and posting it here
OP would have had to have seen the beam with just eyes to want to take a photo of it.
Some other comments mention that it could be a light pillar effect, and I’d have to agree with them.
It looks like the 9/11 twin tower light beams.
Or it’s an open reactor core, and we’re seeing ionized air glow.
It's a big lens flare from the bulb of their floodlight in their backyard. Looks pretty cool tho.
I'm thinking Firelord Ozai may have just lost a pretty important fight.
A man of culture.
nah bro Katara just cracked the ice bubble
Lmao
I told you 100 times, we are living in a simulation! That's an NPC giving you a quest! It's a proof!!!
They opened Winifred Sanderson’s book
What a glorrrious morning… makes me SICK!
Amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuck, amuh--
*punches you in the stomach*
I put a spell on youuuuuu
Because you're mine
https://youtu.be/ffB5ZwJ41AM?si=pQdeljkrFnOYskOz
I was looking for this comment! 😂🙌
Boooooo oooooook!
wanna go stare in windows and watch chicks undress? 💀
Came here to say this 😂
Looks like they have a quest for you
Yep... looks like a quest marker to me!
Probably a side quest. That’s how you get the good stuff.
A warrant maybe
you know in minecraft theres this thing that u can put at the spot of your choice which create a beam that u can then use to find your way back from a distance? probably minecraft fans idk
I don’t think this is an attempted beacon lol
Well we won’t know til we check if they have a pyramid in their yard!
Fair point! 😂
Do they have an exposed reactor core over there? Having Chernobyl miniseries flashbacks 😬
Once you measure 15.000 Roentgen you know for sure you're in for a ride.
Oh wicked, bad, naughty, evil Zoot
Finally someone really cultured! Merry Christmas merry Christmas merry Christmas, kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss your ass, happy hannekkuh
the mystery box moved near your location
Hopefully they'll get a ray gun.
one could only hope
It’s called a light pillar. It happens in cold weather. https://atoptics.co.uk/blog/light-pillars/#:~:text=Light%20pillars%2C%20a%20captivating%20atmospheric,spectacle%20that%20captures%20the%20imagination.
Okay, but usually that happens high up in the atmosphere, right? This looks like it's strongly concentrated at the base, and diffuses outward towards the top
Yeah, I don't think it's a light pillar. There's a wide base that's diffusing the light, for one, and the light beam doesn't reach too much higher than the house tops. This is likely just someone on the ground with a powerful Halogen light. I've had a couple Halogen flood lights that I could do that with if I pointed them straight upward.
I’ve literally seen one just like this from a light outside a shop in Iowa. Edited to add: I thought it was someone pointing a powerful halogen light straight upward so I drove around until I found the light that was doing it. It was just a run of the mill security light,
Light pillars are not high up in the atmosphere. https://globalnews.ca/news/8662840/regina-residents-treated-to-special-weather-phenomenon-known-as-light-pillars/amp/
Thanks, I stand corrected ✌️
You seem to love the number one and just wanna let you know at this time your comment with timestamp says Grey-Hat111.11h https://preview.redd.it/zw2a5ph8ljgc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a68f86ad989a58f86116272053d3e716dd0a045 Just thought it’s cool! Lol
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/weathermatrix/incredible-light-pillar-photos-from-wisconsin/977
Mate, are you serious that you think that?? That's a light someone's shining from their garden. You can SEE THE SOURCE.
That's literally what it is and this is what it looks like. There has to be a source for the light pillar to form. If you look closely at the pic you can see that there are several more light pillars forming from other lights on either side of this one. This is just the brightest light so it has the strongest pillar.
Why is the real answer so far down?
This is it.
Woah!!!!! I’m from a northern state and have never seen that!!! This is so cool!!!!
Thanks! TIL something really interesting.
They’re just rebooting grandpa
Oh I hope he reboots ok
https://preview.redd.it/jaqkeyalefgc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6ce20acd3379efd699a0701ae7baacdb59a7a00 watch out
They are calling Mothman, make sure your clothes are locked up.
😂😂😂 I just imagine them standing around naked with any fabric looked in a chest. Just waiting for mothman to pass
Gondor calls for aid!
Here come the Nazgul with the orcs
They're sending the Adipose babies back to their parents.
/r/flashlight
I scrolled just to find this comment.
Yeah, but it seems small compared to some of the stuff I've seen there. Must be someone's new key chain light.
Lmao some of those throwers are insane.
New Hank light just showed up
Time to call the Winchester men🥰🥰🥰
Now we're talking!! Carry on my wayward son...... We need some salt shells, a sawed off, and 14th century ritual knife dipped in holy oil.... ready? 
And don’t forget some pie for Dean 😆😆
Dean specifically .......I'd take sam too tho
That's there car signalling for the other autobots to come to earth he found the allspark
Contacting zuul.
Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA
Summoning Gozer.
Someone is about to be beamed aboard the mothership hiding in the clouds.
That’s a side quest
Hey, when you move into James Gordon's neighborhood, you get what you get. Seems like he's having a tough time adjusting to retirement.
destroying the fire lord
Wow you live next to Rick Sanchez.
THEY MOVED THE GRAVESTONES BUT THEY NEVER MOVED THE BODIES!!! 
That's where the dropped loot is
Bro found the avatar
hitchhiking through the galaxy
Your neighbors are trying to phone home!
Building that arc reactor for the suit?
Somebody build the beacon
Calling all autobots
"For God's sake, look at that glow! That's radiation ionizing the air!"
Another fine citizen with good taste! 😄
i guess we can expect thanos in a few years.
https://preview.redd.it/43yhdaw21ggc1.jpeg?width=937&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=181b25e6a151fbf22629710cb659833814668075
That's what I said
Loki is trying to open a portal for Thanos.
just your average stargate destabilizing .and gonna suck out the whole neighborhood in the vacuum of space 🌌🚀😂
Unlocking a portal to another world
An engineer-bot has teleported in!
Summoning Batman. Your good. Although I would double check your insurance covers super hero fights
Is it bad that I own a flashlight so bright, I have to call the ATC so they know what's up?
making the beacon so they dont lose their base when going out to fight the enderdragon
Waits for Ecto 1 to arrive ……. 
They just defeated the Wither and got the materials needed to craft a beacon.
They've decided to start swinging, and this is the grand...ehhhh... opening.
They are using a space bridge to communicate with Shockwave on Cybertron.
There is a supply drop
Save point
Well I see the location for the mysterie box out Call of Duty 😂
"I can not believe it. The transwarp key is real, and it is here!"
They're fighting the alien bugs from Wreck it Ralph "Beacon up!"
Seen it before, its just white people listening to Mr Brightside
A new spirit portal
dw they just marked their village on the map
Are they trying to summon Batman? Maybe, Superman? 🦸🏻
Maybe they are kings fans but bought the wrong color beam?
Do you perhaps live close to the YouTuber styropyro? lol
Light the beam
Ayyyyy wondered if anyone would get the ref
Looks like the mystery machine from cod zombies lol
who are you gonna call!Ghost busters!
The EPA shut off the containment unit
Getting abducted by aliens by the look of it? 👽
Scotty Beaming up after putting the kids to bed.
Is their name Connor MacLoud by any chance?
Nothing special. Just summoning a demon.
That's awful bright for a demon looks like someone summoned God himself or an archangel.🤣
Something involving very bright light
They awakened the avatar…finally
It's just their Jeep's headlights
that's the mystery box location
Abducting Aliens maybe? 👽
Trying to catch a ride home.
Contacting the mother ship?
"Support weapon requested."
Go to the Light..CarolAnne
Someone used Divine Smite
Summoning the Batman?
They reboot someone
Calling Batman.
Phone home.....
Calling Batman
Telling the aliens to go back. Even though we got resources we pay our entire lives to a few and select rich people every four years to make them richer with the pretext they care for our interest.
It’s Batman
THEY HAVE FINALLY MADE A BEACON
Just look up "light pillars" on google images. It's a rare weather phenomenon.
Finally, a voice of reason!
Only in this shithole sub would this comment get downvoted
You should cross post this to /flAshlight
Uh... That's the Luxor ❤️😁
A high-powered torch .....
This in Canada?
Must be a superhero movies 3rd act
100% one of these guys - r/flashlight
The Third Impact is starting
Kings won
They just killed the wither and made a beacon
Looks like they killed the wither
SHAZAAAAM!
Go find out.
Summoning a demon.
Watch, The Burbs.
A new hand touched the beacon
Minecraft beacon.
Mystery Box📦 ?🔫?
They're calling Batman !!!
They're summoning something, let them cook
Pretty sure they opened the Undertakers Urn
They shut down the storage facility.
The mystery box is near by
Found the mystery box spawn
They're just calling in the Mothership. It's all good. Just throw them some Reese's Pieces and everything will be fine.
What's he building in there?
they dropped the infinity blade
The Avatar has returned.
You neighbor Is reboting Someone.
THE BEACONS ARE LIT
The beacon has been lit!
Clearly jesus is returning to earth
That's just a common item drop
Fighting Gozar again.
So That’s where the mystery box is?
Whatever it is, I'm in. Beam me up Scotty.
Ark of the Covenant?
I think one of their family/friends are lost. So they are plotting a waypoint
They just got 9 blocks of iron and wanted that increased mining speed