The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/TheRapidfir3Pho3nix on 2024-10-11 04:23:23.
Alright, guys I need a sanity check. So my wife and I are in central OK and we were looking up in the sky because there's a solar storm hitting us right now and we were told to go outside and look. Unfortunately it's not too impressive because of all the light pollution here but there is a small shade of red you can see somewhat everywhere.
But here's when things got a little strange. My wife was trying to get pictures of the shade of red in the sky. I kinda got a bit bored and started looking at stars that were very faint but flickering. I started to think that because of the flickering it almost makes these stars look like they're moving and shifting around kind of "blinking" in and out. I also started to think I'd sometimes see small lights shoot out from these stars sometimes but I was just chalking that up to my eyes/mind playing tricks on me because I had been intensely focusing on these faint flickering stars for a while. The reason I'm including this part is because I'm wondering if this primed my mind/eyes for what happened next.
So my wife was still trying to get photos of the red shade of the sky, she was using my phone and I guess because it was night my phone was "brightening" the photo and it was blowing out the slightly red shade in the sky. And I pointed out some of the flickering stars to her, but she was mainly still focused on getting the photos. As we're both looking up at the night sky, the WHOLE sky lights up for like idek like a tenth of a second. I wouldn't say it turned pure white but more like it went from black to like a medium tone of gray like it glitched or something? I would have chalked it up to just my eyes playing tricks on me but as soon as it happened my wife looked at me and I was looking back at her and we both had the same shocked looked on our faces. We were both speechless for a second and I asked her "you saw that right?" and she said she did. I asked her "it was like the sky lit up for a half second right?" and she agreed though she was the one saying to her it looked like the sky "glitched" for a moment.
Y'all what did we see???