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This might take some explaining but please bare with me!
I'm currently working in a signalbox in the countryside, I worked here full time for about 3 years and now cover it in a relief position. Anyhow, in the last few weeks when I've been in here I've been seeing a strange light at night and cannot explain it. The view from the window looks up the road over some fields where at the top there is a line of trees. Towards the end of the trees I kept seeing a light flashing/flickering at the top on and off, at first I put this down to maybe walkers out at night/cyclists/farmers on the horizon behind the trees but after driving home that way I found that from the angle I look at it is only the night sky behind. I (and one of my managers) have seen the light throughout the night and as late as 5:30am so it can't be an aeroplane or a star as it stays around the same point and it is far too bright.
Any suggestions?
I just thought I'd post as I went to the toilet before and spotted it again when I walked back into the box. I'd post a pic of the horizon as seen in daylight but img websites are blocked so I can't (will try to remember when I'm at home tomorrow though!)
Stoats eyes?
esselgruntfuttock - Member
Stoats eyes?
A musteyelid?
Might be handy to know where you are and in what direction you are looking to see this light.
Remember, a steady light seen through trees will appear to flicker as the branches sway.
please bare with me!
[b][i]LET'S ALL GET NAKED![/i][/b]
I'm at the signalbox you can see next to the track under the bridge and looking up at the line of trees to the left
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Buxton,+Derbyshire+SK17+8TQ/@53.2766137,-1.855219,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x487a31ed2f8200cf:0x34b9226b0d822b09!2sBuxton,+Derbyshire+SK17+8TQ!3m1!1s0x487a31ed2f8200cf:0x34b9226b0d822b09
(when you switch to satellite view!)
The "train approaching, everyones gonna die" warning light reflected in the window?
LET'S ALL GET NAKED!
*Flashes*
Top secret government research into mass mind control.
You haven't seen a light at all. You just think you have.
You also haven't posted on STW.
[i]SHHHHHH![/i]
There is a radio mast shadow on google maps. https://goo.gl/maps/KmZ9W2n7Et22
Red flashing?
Nope, literally like a bright bike light/heavy duty hand torch
Red flashing?
OK, I got a bit sunburnt by the pool in Vegas a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't think you'd notice.
literally like a bright bike light/heavy duty hand torch
You're in an operating theatre; that's the lights.
We were trying to remove your brain as part of the experiment, but unfortunately you regained partial consciousness before we could complete it.
That's what's causing the sensation of a flashing light that you can't explain - it's your subconscious trying to alert you.
Don't worry, it will go out soon.
Are some of you guys signallers cause the comedy here is almost as good as on the Network Rail internal chat forum
aliens
almost as good as on the Network Rail internal chat forum
Damned by faint praise 🙂
isitafox - Member
Are some of you guys signallers cause the comedy here is almost as good as on the Network Rail internal chat forum
Yeah at the WMSC in brum, transferred over in May from Wolverhampton..
Maybe it's a fox.
It's probably how our eyes work in darkness. Firstly our perception of contrast means we see an absolute black and an absolute white in every situation thus compressing or magnifying the actual range of contrast. Also when it gets dark our rods take over from our cones but the dominant cones can interfere. This leads to faint glows on the horizon appearing as bright light. Especially at our peripheral vision.
Maybe.
It's the local rugby team we are paying them to light facts in the woods.
There's a car park. It's doggers.
Doveholes doggers syndicate, they want you to join in as they heard you like to get 'bare'.
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Mysterons?
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notwork fail Yammer is usually full of people or Galactic Dictators ranting about the poor state of the internal IM system!
Long Live Archibald Tuttle!
Gypos / poachers out lamping.
when it gets dark our rods take over
Giggidy
@tinribz that was one of my first thoughts but unless they like climbing trees to do so and stay out all night (the latest we ever did was about 00:30-01:00ish) it can't be. That's the mystery, the fact there's nothing behind the trees. Mentioned it to the day turn man when I got here earlier and he said he'd seen it when he was on last week.
I think next time I'm doing a Sunday day shift I'll go up the road and have a proper snoop around to see if I can find the cause!
could this be the northern lights Aurora Borealis
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCOjL2rmk2cgCFUdaGgod7pME0g&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ftravel%2Ftravelnews%2F10488945%2FNorthern-Lights-tops-bucket-list.html&psig=AFQjCNGKZ0JdaN8NUQFup6ytZhNnBmNTZg&ust=1445713449368224