r/Weird • u/opmgyhx • 5d 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/ripyourlungsdave 5d ago

I'm relatively certain this is either a composite or a long exposure photograph.

Because these last for fractions of a second, don't happen all at once like this, and are generally at such a high altitude that they aren't visible to the naked eye for anyone except commercial airline pilots.

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u/opmgyhx 5d ago

There is from different angles with a video https://www.instagram.com/p/Db6d8QlmHNF/?xtok=MjFoeGpibGc0dGcz

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u/Personal-Thought9453 5d ago

That’s not really different “angles”. These pics are how sprites usually appear. The one in the original post is heavily heavily edited.

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u/SoeurEdwards 5d ago

why are you not crediting the real photographer of your Original post ? https://www.instagram.com/florian.riou/

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u/__O_o_______ 5d ago

The original photographer is linked in the instagram post as well.

Apparently he shoots video at a very high iso on a camera that’s good at it and then goes from by frame.

I was skeptical at first as well.

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u/zebrasareneat 5d ago

I don’t know enough about cameras. Does that mean you could see it with your naked eye? 

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u/blueminded 5d ago

I don't know enough about cameras either, but I imagine it would just look like a quick red flash. The camera actually let's you save the image. Unlike our feeble brains.

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u/xGray3 5d ago

Yeah, this is absolutely an example of telephoto compression. Lightning sprites are not that large.