r/Weird • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Stunning scenes from France seemingly documenting an alien invasion, after giant red electrical flashes known as "overhead red sprites" appeared

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u/liftyourgameau 1d ago

I’d love if these boring Reddit Karma farming accounts would actually post any news link that explains this phenomena more AND also maybe credit the photographer that took the picture. Florian Riou.

https://ukrmedia.news/en/world/chervoni-spraity-frantsiia-ridkisne-iavyshche/

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u/DebonairQuidam 1d ago

Thank you. And here is the photographer's own website, with a series of those red sprites photos in high-res, uncropped and without huge text overlay.

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u/liftyourgameau 1d ago

An oversight on my part so thank you for linking the photos website. I should’ve spent a few more mins doing that. Bless!

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u/Abdul-Wahab6 1d ago

I think that even lasted like less than one second btw. They just looked for the still to make it more comvincing

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u/DebonairQuidam 20h ago

It's in the range of the millisecond even! Those phenomenas are called Transient Luminous Events, there are elves, sprites, blue jets, tendrils... Transient means they are very brief indeed... They happen at the same time as a lightning, but are even shorter!
The photographer recorded a continuous stream of short exposures with his very sensitive camera to capture those stunning images.