Bright flash in the sky??

[wCat]

Originally Posted by catriona

Thanks for posting the links. I think that is exactly what we saw that night last fall.

Cat...I agree totally! You and I saw the same flash last fall....and yes, it looked just like this transformer video. Our friends called CPS too, but they said they couldn't check it out without an "address". Duh....that's what they were calling for....the location!

[TX_AGGIE13]

I just noticed this thread, and I remember seeing the same type thing around the time this thread was made. The area I saw it in was the Lockhill-Selma area north or 1604, and east of the Rim shopping area. I wouldn't really say Camp Bullis, but it was so big that it would have crossed some of the south border of that area as well. I was driving getting on 1604E from I-10W and when I saw the first big flash I rolled down the window to see if I could hear anything. Very strange, and I have never seen anything quite the same. I have seen transformers blow in the day, and night, and also have seen head on high speed crashes from a distance, and it was neither, nor was it heat lightning. The closest thing I have ever witnessed before that I thought it could have been was a high speed train wreck, but that would have been all over the news, and there would have been sound.

[charlotte_o_kara]

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[huckster]

I don't know what heat lightning is either. I have also heard the
term "sheet lightning". I don't think either exist at all.
However,while in college I took geography 101 as a science elective. I learned there that lightning can stike from; the cloud to the ground
from the ground upward to a cloud
from cloud to cloud
or even at an airliner .
Anywhere an opposite charge is, the static electricity will ground toward
and strike. I believe what you saw was a cloud to cloud strike.

Originally Posted by wCat

YES! We saw it twice about 5 seconds apart. Then it happened again about a minute later. We were getting gas at loop 410 and I-35 NE....it was NW of where we were. Which way were you facing?

At first I thought it was a promo search light ....but it was more of a flash than a sweeping beam light. It was really bright....the sky was perfectly clear with some wispy cirrus clouds above, and it lit up that portion of the sky.

Moki....I've never heard of heat lightning. What kind of conditions have to be present for it. I haven't watched the news so I don't know what's going on with the weather.

Interesting to see......

[aknevaks]

I live in Homer Alaska and we saw the exact same thing at about 8-9pm AK time. I think were 3 hours ahead, we were trying to figure out what it was too. We thought it was just a transformer the blew because it was snowing pretty good. Who knows!

[tgannaway89]

I saw the bright light in 2007 and was perplexed by it. I was driving on I-10 between UTSA Blvd and Loop 1604 when a bright flash lit up everything around me. It was so bright and unexpected that I couldn't see the road for a second. I though maybe it was some kind of mock bomb training at Camp Bullis at first. I was in a car full of people and remember everyone was clueless as to what happened.

I saw the bright flash again last year sometime in the Fall. I learned then that is was a blown transformer. Power was out at many houses around UTSA for a while. It was very interesting to see twice!