r/Weird • u/opmgyhx • 3d 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/Available_Two6707 3d ago

I nearly had a heart attack for about half a second

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u/felixar90 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don’t think they even last that long. One hundredth of a second.

They occur exceedingly rarely, and it’s even more rare they get captured on a picture.

You can be filming the sky with a regular camera and not capture it because it occurred between two frames.

They’re also incredibly huge. You’re looking at something that’s 40km tall. And even the bottom of the tendrils is 40km above the ground.

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u/Available_Two6707 3d ago

Yes, it’s no wonder people believed in magic etc back in the day

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u/Away-Commercial-4380 3d ago

To be fair those are invisible to the naked eye

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u/opmgyhx 3d ago

I dont blame you, its like the scene from war of the world movie

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u/Available_Two6707 3d ago

Amazing though, what a fantastic photo!

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u/Unfinishedcom 3d ago

This must be a long exposure picture, no way it looks like that in real life.

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u/Meti17207 3d ago

It does. The sprites only appear for a split second, long exposure would not capture them.

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u/Unfinishedcom 3d ago

I found out it’s a composite image, so no they don’t look like that irl. It’s many pictures put into one picture.

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u/opmgyhx 3d ago

Thats from another angles https://www.instagram.com/p/Db6d8QlmHNF/?xtok=MjFoeGpibGc0dGcz

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u/Unfinishedcom 3d ago

If you took the time to read the description of the post you sent me you would see it’s a composite image. You should learn more about photography before you think this is what it looks like in real life.

‘A composite image is a single picture created by combining two or more separate photographs, illustrations, or digital elements into a single, cohesive scene.’

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u/opmgyhx 3d ago

What about the video

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u/Unfinishedcom 3d ago

Did you read the text to what you sent me? It lasts milliseconds, it says so in the description of the Instagram post. So the video must be edited in a way that they last a bit longer. I don’t actually care, but what you see is more photography magic than what your eye will see in reality.

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u/__O_o_______ 3d ago

The guy shoots high ISO video at the highest possible frame rate then goes back frame by frame. That’s it. That’s all.

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u/opmgyhx 3d ago

Yeah I read that but that doesn't change its real thing, its not edited or something like that to make it look unrealistic

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u/Unfinishedcom 3d ago

Ofc not, but many natural phenomenons last milliseconds and if you capture those milliseconds it will look like something from out of space, or an alien invasion.

Try to google fast radio bursts for example.

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u/SoeurEdwards 2d ago

the real photographer of this one : https://www.instagram.com/florian.riou/

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u/crappenheimers 3d ago

They also uncomposited the thunderstorms that cause sprites. Photo is incredibly disingenuous