Bright Flashing Lights During Earthquake

Some weird flashes of light can be seen in the distance in this recording from N-H-K’s live feed of Sendai city during yesterday’s magnitude 7.4 earthquake:

It’s “probably due to a transformer substation in Sendai shorting out.” Either that, or space aliens firing an earthquake beam at the planet earth.

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11 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - April 8, 2011 at 10:54 pm

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Tim

LOL. I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.

DC

start praying to the aliens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDMPVms3SRo
iago

Hope they stopped to pick up their alien registration cards and re-entry permits.
Cara

Are these the aliens replacing the fly-jin, bye-jin or whatever else they are called now, that flew away?

http://desde-japon.blogspot.com Giancarlo

Quick link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
ThyGoddess

“Luminescence phenomenon”? It IS probably just wires shorting out. But you can’t just put “Sparks of stuff shorting out!!!” and get a news story. So it has to be mysterious…. Phenomenon.
Fat Tony

Benjamin Fulford was right!
Rob A

The distance from the epicenter makes the possibility that these are the unexplained ‘earthquake lights’ very unlikely.

The color and proximity to the ground and the urban area lends itself to a transformer short/explosion or high-tension power line arcs.
Megan

HARP!

Just kidding. :p lol
iQ

bad video cut … see full versions at youtube … after the flash the lights turned out = electricity troubles
Level3

Someone used Google Earth with the 3D buildings feature and found the exact angle. Comments say that it lines up with an electrical transformer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINRtXDy4qo&feature=watch_response

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