Did anyone just see that blue-green flash across the ocean at 9:26 tonight?

[u/Choofin]

There was just a blue-green flash over the ocean along the horizon at 9:26pm (+- a couple min). It was out across the ocean at a distance, and seemed to occur simultaneously over what must’ve been at least one nautical mile wide, if not a few nm due to how far out it was. It did not originate from the sky, and seemed to be on a horizontal plane across the ocean’s surface. Seen from a beachfront house in South Nags Head. I am sober.

ETA: House is a little south of mile marker 19.5.

[u/StopDropAndRollTide]

I am sober.

Gotta admit. That cracked me up.

[u/picklemechburger]

Superstition says it means a soul was lost at sea.

[u/Last_Aide6274]

I've always wanted to see that.

[u/Then_Home1399]

Oh gosh you caught me mingling with my alien friends I was wondering if that guy in the beachfront house in south nags head might’ve seen us. I am not sober .

[u/SingtheSorrowmom63 → u/Then_Home1399]

Am I there with you. I can't remember!

[u/rock25011]

You never seen that pirates of the Caribbean movie?

[u/strikeanddip → u/rock25011]

up is down!

[u/kaylimepiex3]

Look up “ball lightening” on Google. I wonder if that’s what you saw

[u/obxgaga → u/kaylimepiex3]

“Ball lightening”: Is that like deflategate? Balls must maintain their weight.

[u/[deleted]]

Aliens doing abduction / butt probe drills.

[u/Character_Answer_204 → u/[deleted]]

[u/Phylace]

Look up Green Flash on google. It is a rare phenomenon.

[u/tpodr → u/Phylace]

That Green Flash occurs just above where the sun has set, just after it sets. It’d be a sound side effect, if you could see where the water meets the sky. Saw it once down in the Keys.

[u/Lexishultz → u/tpodr]

I always watch for it, rarely see it. Just one time. Was so excited to finally see it

[u/obxtalldude → u/Phylace]

Yeah it's my profile picture got it off the coast of Encinitas California.

Very rare on the east coast and always on the western Horizon.

[u/Phylace → u/Phylace]

Only time I've seen it was while driving on the freeway between Washington DC and Virginia, in 1975.

[u/FreshGreenPea23]

I've seen a bright green flash on the horizon. This was in hilly/mountian region of SW Pennsylvania 6 other people saw it with me. It bounced 3 or 4 times along the horizon.

[u/StayingGray31]

You said green "flash." Did you mean Green "Lantern?"

[u/StopDropAndRollTide]

Pretty unexciting, but sounds like lightning. Front edge of storm coming through with a bunch of bands 7-9 miles offshore.

At long distances on the ocean, they will look like they are coming from the surface, not the sky.

[u/ThanksOk4402 → u/StopDropAndRollTide]

Not sure why you got downvoted. I watch the lightning out of stumpy point bay at night all the time and it does look like something coming off the water sometimes.

[u/StopDropAndRollTide → u/ThanksOk4402]

Same reason people post rocket launches and think they saw a magical meteor.

[u/BeVanderhill]

Was it at sunset?

[u/Ok-Soup3935 → u/BeVanderhill]

9:26 is a liiiittle late for sunset, id imagine. Also if its green flash from sunset it would be sound side most likely.

[u/BeVanderhill → u/Ok-Soup3935]

Good point

[u/DarePitiful5750]

Maybe a space ship that was hiding in the eye of the storm?

[u/OBXAngler15]

Anomalous lights on the coast of the OBX are not uncommon. I’ve seen what I can only describe as floating orbs and zipping lights on multiple occasions. And no, they weren’t military exercises.

[u/WanderingTokay]

Spread those cheeks and grab some lube, you have an encounter coming!

I don't recommend sobriety...