I'd like to share some images shot by my automatic motion detector security camera at the front gate of my property in Hawaiian Acres on April 14, 2014 between midnight and 2:21 am.
Appears to be a powerful beam of light coming down vertically from the sky and moving for almost 2-1/2 hours in the middle of the night. There appear to be some kind of spherical shapes in some of the photos also (it wasn't raining that night). Everyone I've showed them to has ruled out helicopters (midnight to 2:21am?), headlights (would be horizontal), moonbeam (light is too powerful and wrong part of sky).
The images were captured hours after the blood moon and lunar eclipse which makes it even more interesting. The moon was in the south west sky when these were shot. The camera is looking towards the East near the top of Ainaloa.
I had to reduce the size of the photos as they are too large and there are too many of them to post online as is. So they are combined into 4 images 6" x45", still pretty large!
I don't have an opinion as to what it is, I'm just calling it an unsolved mystery and thought I'd share it with my neighbors to see what you think. Aloha.
You definitely have a Jedi apprentice training in your yard at night. Remember when Obi Wan helped Luke practice his light sabre skills (the vertical lights in your photos) with a hovering round practice ball as they traveled in the Millennium Falcon to Mos Eisley (I believe)? Your yard Jedi must be fairly advanced though, as he's taking on 3 of those things at once. Whatever you do, don't interrupt him, those light sabres can sting, even at a low setting.
Yes, that's the first thing that comes to mind for the circles, but it was dry that night like it's been lately and the circles aren't in every photo. I have hundreds of images on rainy days and don't see circles like that on those images so I'm not so sure. Can't rule out water drops though. I didn't really pay much attention to the circles originally, that beam of light is what got our attention. Must be that Jedi.
The spherical "objects" are refraction from the other light hitting the lens. Note that they're in nearly, but not exactly, the same position in each frame; that's because the beam of light is hitting each lens element at a slightly different angle in the different shots. That's also why you don't see them in the IR-only images (in the ones at 12:30 the light is clearly near the lens, although the streak isn't visible).
Possibly the main streak is somebody waving a laser pointer? You can use them to point out stars so it wouldn't be surprising if someone was using it on that night. It would be quite a coincidence to hit your camera that many times by accident from a neighboring lot, but if it's not camoflaged someone might have targeted it, or a tree in your yard (I've done that to see how far mine can reach, though I always make sure to keep it up in the canopy).
Edited by - Midnight Rambler on 05/20/2014 20:48:32
I see those all the time on my video feed at night - spider webs show up really well in the infrared images. I have to go clean the front of the camera about once a week to keep them from constantly triggering the motion activated recording. Makes it a real nuisance scanning the records when I am away for a few days.
That makes perfect sense Midnight Rambler. I believe the mystery of the circles in the photos has been solved.
The jury is still out on the beam of light though and that is the main focus of this mystery. That light is coming down vertically through a grove of rainbow eucalyptus trees that are 50 feet tall and the one tree in the images is over a foot wide. That beam of light is a minimum of a foot wide and much wider in some images.
It would take quite a bit of energy to create a laser that powerful. Look how wide it is and the glow coming off of it. I've only seen red and green laser pointers, I have never seen white. The camera is camouflaged and in the canopy of the rainbow eucalyptus.
I have no neighbors within 800 ft of me and my three acres is surrounded by ohia forest with no views of any neighbors, very private. I doubt someone's going to shine a light for 2 hours and 20 minutes in the middle of the night at my rainbow eucalyptus trees.
Also, I have 3 large german shepards (100 to 140 pounds) that bark at anything that comes near our property our even drives by. They didn't bark at all that night.
The only explanation that makes any sense regarding the light is from a helicopter, but that still makes no sense to be above my property from midnight to 2:21 am. Whatever it was it was flying over the community, not just my property. Must have been the Midnight Rambler!
The parabolic ballistic trajectory is becoming obsolete. Also, visual surveillance satellites need clear daylight to see what is happening on the ground, which they can't do at night. I think we who live on Hawaii island get used to the feeling when 90% of the time is totally silent of industrial noises. So things like helicopters and missile launches upset that calm, just like neighbors moving in next door with 8 hunting hounds. There are going to be many more different sightings over the islands, especially going into summer with RIMPAC.
Geo, I took a ladder down to the camera and checked and there are no spider webs anywhere near it. I don't see anything on the lens, but cleaned it anyway. Is there anyway we can see any of your images that you say are similar?
I have literally thousands of images from this camera, hundreds of night photos and I've never seen anything like that evening of April 14th. I usually only see my dogs in the camera and cars passing by.
Originally posted by SBH
Geo, I took a ladder down to the camera and checked and there are no spider webs anywhere near it. I don't see anything on the lens, but cleaned it anyway. Is there anyway we can see any of your images that you say are similar?
I have literally thousands of images from this camera, hundreds of night photos and I've never seen anything like that evening of April 14th. I usually only see my dogs in the camera and cars passing by.
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Hi SBH
Perhaps you could post a some of your other images for comparison purposes, those that you see most commonly - that would be interesting.
Thanks , Robert
The parabolic ballistic trajectory is becoming obsolete. Also, visual surveillance satellites need clear daylight to see what is happening on the ground, which they can't do at night. I think we who live on Hawaii island get used to the feeling when 90% of the time is totally silent of industrial noises. So things like helicopters and missile launches upset that calm, just like neighbors moving in next door with 8 hunting hounds. There are going to be many more different sightings over the islands, especially going into summer with RIMPAC.
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Opihikaobob says:(IMHO)
Obsolete? So are you saying that you think the zig - zag lines are a new type of trajectory - I don't think that is what you meant, but maybe you could further inform us on that sentence.
What I think, is that the missile was launched with a parabolic trajectory and as it was traveling down range , ie laterally away from all the islands,and for anyone on any of the islands the perspective of the missile trails would appear to not seem to gain much in the way of height, and the zig and zag of it could be atmospheric wind differentials experienced as the missile traveled down range through different atmospheric conditions, but for sure the missile trail as it is being displayed represents an energy signature, just as the shape of clouds represents a collection of
different energy signatures viewed at a particular point in time.
As well I would hazard a guess that most sats can see at night as well as in the day with their many different light gathering optical instruments - think infrared , ultra violet, etc. That being said , sat observation with visual light has many uses as well during daylight hours, and may not be excelled for particular purposes - that would seem logical - to me any way.
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Originally posted by Opihikaobob
Obsolete? So are you saying that you think the zig - zag lines are a new type of trajectory
The ballistic missile is not launched from here. That was the interceptor. The obsolescence is the Russians and the Chinese are moving away from simple ballistic missiles because they can be intercepted, and yes, they use new trajectories.
Three days of missing time is normal, it's called being on Puna Time.
The implant is probably a centipede bite (or sting), it should go away in about... three days.
Wait, three days of missing time, three days for a centipede implant to go away. I better check a little more into this and get back to you...
I definately don't "know" anything about these photos, that's I why asked for opinions. I've never seen anything like it. The apparent "light" appears to be right next to a tree that I "know" is at least a foot wide.
Thanks to input from the nice people here, I see that it's possible that the apparent light or possible reflection could be off of a tiny spider web. However no spider webs are anywhere to be found.
Are you going to start dissecting every word now? Geez.
I definately don't "know" anything about these photos, that's I why asked for opinions. I've never seen anything like it. The apparent "light" appears to be right next to a tree that I "know" is at least a foot wide.
Thanks to input from the nice people here, I see that it's possible that the apparent light or possible reflection could be off of a tiny spider web. However no spider webs are anywhere to be found.
Are you going to start dissecting every word now? Geez.
If you follow the timeline, you can watch the "light" slowly moving across, in front of the tree. It most likely was a spider web, caught in the moon's light and/or your infrared LED's and slight breezes made it jump around some. Going out in the last day or so to find it, it way late.
I don't think that was a light beam if it was you would not be able to see any of the background. In these images with the white line I could still see the tree and the fence in some cases. If it was a light the background would appear black as a light directly in front of the would "blow out" the rest of the image especially at night. Could it be a branch or the leg of a bird? Maybe a bird is sitting on the camera, just kidding, haha.
I'm not nitpicking, I'm pointing out that in a 2D picture what you thought was "minimum" 1 ft could in actual fact be 1 inch.
Sorry for trying to help. Oh no, I've single-handedly ruined this whole thread.
In most of the images where the streak is visible, it does completely blow out the image. You can see the tree in some, but it seems to depend on the angle at which it hits the lens. Also, it floods the scene when it's not quite in the frame, as in the two shots at 12:30. That's what makes me think it's a light beam.
My green laser pointer can go at least 1/4 mile and is still very narrow at that distance. Since it's completely washed out it will show as white regardless of the true color. The only other thing I can think of is something waving right in front of it that's reflecting the IR flash directly back into the lens. But it would have to be very highly reflective, and it seems odd that it would only be that night. Maybe a branch or leaf?
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