Something I saw today that I need help explaining.

[Locut0s]

OK both me and my father saw this so I know I'm not crazy. Or at least I think I'm not

We were driving home at night and were stopped at a busy intersection for some time. Above us there was a LARGE flock of crows flying overhead. Many of these birds were also perched on the power lines overhanging the road. What we was what looked like green electrical arcing along the power lines and even along the nearby light post. I'm talking about bright green electrical filaments that seemed to flow along the power lines and along the metal of the light stand. There was even a crow on the power line that was touched by these electrical arcs (he seemed to not even notice the effect). Again both of us saw this and we have no explanation for what it was.

Anyone want to take a guess? Yeah I know, stop taking drugs etc etc.. I'm serious we both saw this.

 

[MikeMike]

Did you have a mushroom pizza tonight perchance?

 

[A Casual Fitz]

What?

 

[guyver01]

Alfred Hitchcock was right.

 

[Locut0s]

Did you have a mushroom pizza tonight perchance?

I wouldn't blame you for thinking that I did, but nope we weren't on anything.

The arcs weren't actually as bright as I made them sound, they were actually rather dim, but definitely green and definitely bright enough to stand out. They also were fairly short lived.

 

[Locut0s]

Alfred Hitchcock was right.

About birds?

 

[guyver01]

About birds?

i assume they get movies up there in canaduh..

 

[Locut0s]

i assume they get movies up there in canaduh..

Yeah that's exactly the movie I thought you were referencing. I've yet to see it though.

 

[MikeMike]

no clue:

http://www.unmuseum.org/bizelec.htm anything in there?

 

[Locut0s]

no clue:

http://www.unmuseum.org/bizelec.htm anything in there?

No. I'm sure there's also a rational scientific explanation without resorting to crazy sites like that. Though that particular page seems rational.

 

[mesthead21]

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

Two of you were driving? What kind of car has two steering wheels and gas pedals?

 

[Locut0s]

I have one theory. It's really windy tonight so we may have been witnessing power arcs caused by something that we couldn't see (it was getting dark) being blown onto the power lines. Beats me why it was green though.

 

[Locut0s]

Two of you were driving? What kind of car has two steering wheels and gas pedals?

 

[Malak]

Clearly the Green Lantern was nearby. Did you happen to see this guy nearby:

 

[Sealy]

Was it around here? Crows for whatever reason seem to like this area of Vancouver...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuEjaG4Ghs

 

[darkswordsman17]

Clearly the Green Lantern was nearby. Did you happen to see this guy nearby:

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Was it around here? Crows for whatever reason seem to like this area of Vancouver...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuEjaG4Ghs

Holy shit that's a lot of crows. At my apartment in college there were a lot of big crows in the tree at the end of the lot, I thought that was a lot, but wow.

 

[WildHorse]

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[DominionSeraph]

Saint Elmo's Fire?

 

[Zee]

Did it look like this?

 

[Malak]

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WTF!

So did you see this guy nearby:

 

[alkemyst]

those were sparks flying...they say incest is best.

 

[darkswordsman17]

WTF!

So did you see this guy nearby:

:biggrin:

 

[Locut0s]

Was it around here? Crows for whatever reason seem to like this area of Vancouver...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuEjaG4Ghs

Every night during about 1/2 the year crows seem to migrate in a great cloud like the one in your vid over a large portion of the city. We were much closer to BCIT than where that vid was taken but I've seen clouds of crows like that along several portions of highway 1.

 

[Locut0s]

Saint Elmo's Fire?

I thought about that, but despite being windy and rainy it wasn't a lightning storm.