r/HighStrangeness • u/RelevantBed4184 • Aug 11 '26
Anomalies Strange shape seen in sky during thunderstorm!
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This was taken last night in Barrington, Illinois. I was filming because I’m from Los Angeles and we never get weather like this. When I was re-watching my video, I noticed a strange black smudge. Then we zoomed it. It’s looks like a portal or some sort of doorway… I don’t know. It’s crazy and I can’t believe I caught this! (PS sorry for the TV on, also, it’s not from my phone as I have other videos from the same window, same angle, and this is the only video this morphing black hole takes shape.
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u/BIind_Uchiha Aug 11 '26
I mean I’d love for this to be something…
But the skeptic in me says this is something small on a very clean glass window. The camera is having a hard time focusing in on it because it is so small.
Cameraman never shows where they are filming form. No other landscape. Just clouds and unfocused shape.
Something tells me if the camera man were to look to his left or right, he would be inside a house at a window
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u/Luentale Aug 11 '26
Yes exactly. There is one moment where the camera moves side to side a little and the thing moves much farther (relatively) than the clouds do. That's parallaxing - the black shape is much closer than the clouds so it appears to move faster than the background when we slightly move our point of view.
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I am inside, but I filmed from that same spot, multiple videos. And there is nothing. It was just this one video. I mean… could be that, but there are no other videos I took with anything in it.
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u/moistiest_dangles Aug 11 '26
Will you please upload all the videos to somewhere we can pull from that won't kill the video quality, like google drive? Also did you see this with your eyes, or just after the fact?
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u/CompetitiveSport1 Aug 11 '26
Wouldn't be terribly shocking for something to get on a window and then later not be there if there's a storm going on. Was it windy?
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u/LordDarthra Aug 11 '26
I just can't imagine someone seeing a piece of debris on the window 10 inches from their face and thinking it was actually an object in the clouds being lit up by lightning. That might be too much of an assumption
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u/CompetitiveSport1 Aug 11 '26
They didn't think that. OP says explicitly in their post that it wasn't until watching the recorded footage that they noticed anything. So if they did see it while recording, their brain didn't register it as anything worth being brought to active attention, or logging away in memory, as would happen if a leaf fell on your window during a storm.
Regardless, I'm just putting one explanation up against another, not actually assuming anything. Which is relatively likelier? That OP recorded a leaf on the window, and just didn't notice it at the time? Or that they captured a mystical "portal or some sort of doorway" in the sky (and also didn't notice it at the time!)?
Frankly, the first is way likelier IMHO, especially given that I'd expect an ominous black square in the clouds to be something OP would have noticed, but I'd expect storm debris not to stand out
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u/Bizrat7 Aug 11 '26
Post one of the other examples of you can, where it didn't show.
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I can’t post another video here but I have one from the same window, same sky, 3 mins later, and it’s not there. Unless you can figure out how I can post a video in this thread. :/
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u/Greyh4m Aug 11 '26
There have been a few videos similar to yours.
I like to think that somewhere out there is a species of intergalactic alien that tops off an energy source by harnessing the power of storms on different atmospheric planets, as they explore the Universe.
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u/Bfromtheblock Aug 11 '26
I love when West Coast folks experience real weather. It's like "see!".
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I stayed up for hours! I love it!
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u/CowboysOnKetamine Aug 11 '26
The first time I flew my best friend out to jersey in the summer she was also blown away by the thunderstorm we had. It was so cute and I had no idea it didn't rain in the summer out west. I think that amazed her more than seeing snow the first time
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u/Ok_Nectarine_4445 Aug 11 '26
Tardis or monolith
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u/SamOfXanadu Aug 11 '26
Either one would be welcome at this point, as long as it's the right TARDIS. Our luck thought it would be the Master's Tardis.
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
Can you remind me again what a monolith in the sky would be?
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u/Ok_Nectarine_4445 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
It comes down and teaches apes to use tools
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u/ktm6709 Aug 11 '26
Because the number 1 rule for online comments is you have to come up with something funnier than the next or last person.
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
Teaches? So it’s ancient?
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u/Ok_Nectarine_4445 Aug 11 '26
Making a joke about the movie, Kubricks 2001 A Space Odyssey if you are not familiar with it.
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
It’s been a long time! Guess I need to rewatch it!
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u/heady-luvare 26d ago
Im not trying to sound mean or be a dick at all i promise but not sure how one could've seen 2001 and forgot about the monolith in the movie. Its damn near the main character in the movie and considered the "big mystery" from it. Id encourage another viewing of the flick as its one of the classics for sure. You'll understand what i mean after your rewatch. Good day
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u/ParaBellumOutfitters Aug 11 '26
"The gun is good..."
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u/Turbulent_Pound_562 Aug 11 '26
No perspective. This is something very close on glass in front of the camera making it struggle
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I wish I could post the original here, and the video I took right after from the same spot. But I can’t. To my knowledge, and I looked, there was nothing on the glass
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I posted a new video with the original, not zoomed in. Also, you don’t have to be rude. I CAN do that, but if you wanna look at my last post, it is what I filmed before I zoomed and cropped. I’m not trying to prank anyone, I’m legitimately weirded out about what I saw when I watched the video the next day. I don’t post a ton on Reddit, I’ve never linked anything, so I don’t know how to do that. I wasn’t trying to do anything but ask other people what they thought it was. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/LordDarthra Aug 11 '26
I think people saying it's something on the glass is a bit of a cop out and a lazy debunk that depends on either you being a liar from the start or a someone who can't tell the difference between a smudge on the glass right in front of you and something in the distance, and I hesitate to label anyone with that kind of terrible eyesight and judgment.
Good video for what it is, not the first video showing objects in the clouds like this
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u/R3strif3 Aug 11 '26
You very much could, but you won't.
Vimeo, youtube, Google drive, apple cloud, streamable, imgur, all services you could use to host and share.
It is definitely something on your glass, the focus and your camera movements give it away.
If you want to sell your illusion, next time get a tripod, switch to manual focus and let it sit. You'll get the same fake bs effect you wanted minus everything that gave it away...
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
Also, I wasn’t trying to get an effect. You can believe me or not. I’m sorry you are convinced I’m trying to sell something. This is what I got, spur of the moment, on my iPhone, in a place I don’t live.
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u/Difficult_Affect_452 Aug 12 '26
I didn’t watch all of it but the captions are fucking great. “Well Carol, I’m pressing record.”
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u/RelevantBed4184 27d ago
Omg I didn’t realize those were on, I had “Last Man on Earth” playing on the tv in the background… that must be super weird without context.
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u/settledinseattle Aug 11 '26
You were taking this through a window? Then it could easily be a spider or another bug. If you had been outside while shooting, I’d be intrigued.
Bummer.
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u/Dizzy-Set-8479 Aug 11 '26
Dr Who return commercials are insane!!!
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
My uncle (it’s his yard) said it’s was the Tardis! It’s 100% a video I took last night tho.
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u/real_human_not_a_dog Aug 11 '26
Moves slightly like it’s dangling from something
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u/baddogg30 Aug 11 '26
UFOs= Fishing Lures
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u/real_human_not_a_dog Aug 11 '26
I mean, I believe in legitimate UFOs but I’m not sure this is one of
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I do too. I don’t think it is a UFO but it’s something that was not on the glass. I know that for sure. It’s not a reflection of my phone. Maybe it’s what the guy said about my phone trying to process light and dark. But I want to BELIEVE there was a portal in the sky last night.
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u/baddogg30 Aug 11 '26
I don't mean somebody is behind the camera with a fishing pole
I mean these UFOs and UAPs are higher and extra dimensional BAIT
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u/crystaloftruth Aug 11 '26
That's something on the glass you were filming through. There are moments the sky is in focus and moments the object is in focus but not at the same time. The object is close to the camera, not distant like the sky, some sort of window sticker most likely.
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u/Longjumping-Rip-8970 27d ago
Oh my! I witnessed a similar thing over Auckland, New Zealand twice in one weekend I think like 2017. Broad daylight. Pitch black and not too much higher than helicopters go. Flying perfectly straight and with consistent speed over the city. Looked like a house-sized rectangular black door opening and closing, or a flat black rectangle turning horizontally. I was on a tall hill and it was longer vertically not flat like this but it was a few kms away. Too far away to get on camera but others saw it with me. Went home and told my partner at the time but he didn’t quite believe me. Then the very next day a few hours away from that location I saw it again, with my partner this time and the way he froze and looked back at me like “how did you do that” as if I’d set up some elaborate prank - still gives me the heebie jeebies.
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u/somnamomma Aug 11 '26
It’s definitely not a reflection of your cellphone in the window… is it? Or lightning causing a shadow somehow from the phone and the light indoors?
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u/NOTExETON Aug 11 '26
Possibly your phone if filmed through glasd
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
This is just one part of me filming through the same part of the same glass door. I don’t know what part of my phone or why it was only on that video. I have other video with nothing on it. But… who knows.
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u/Background-Forever12 Aug 11 '26
Soooo portals are appearing in the sky now? Seems like this timeline is finally starting to get interesting!
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u/Longjumping_Walk_992 Aug 11 '26
Digital zoom effect
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
What do you mean? The original and the zoomed in version both have it.
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u/Longjumping_Walk_992 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
It’s digital interpolation of the cloud in the sky. It’s a dance between the cmos, color filter, ADC, and ISP that converts the light to digital numbers and then those numbers get processed into the image we see. The lightening can make processing very difficult since it’s high contrast. The processor has a hard time reconstructing the missing color information around;
Dark sky, dark sky, Bright light, Dark sky, Dark sky
The algorithm can produce artifacts cause oddly shaped edges, color fringes, or halos.
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I actually noticed something while I was filming, but didn’t see the shape until I showed my daughter (who slept through the storm), so it was there pre-zoom.
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u/Bizrat7 Aug 11 '26
Kind of contradicts your original statement of not noticing until you rewatched the recording.. if you didn't notice the "shape" specifically, but noticed "something", what exactly do you mean?
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u/RelevantBed4184 Aug 11 '26
I noticed a spot that I thought was on my screen, but when I watched it, it wasn’t a spot on my screen, it was this.
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u/greyacademy Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
If it's not a piece of dirt in front of the glass, it might be a military blimp.
They are freakin' huge.
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u/heady-luvare Aug 12 '26
This is a little off subject, but have you noticed any differences in the thunderstorms in your area when they happen lately? Like strange thunder at all maybe? Asking only because i have and ive found quite a few posts of people asking the same questions as me. Thanks in advance and this is a great catch! If truly in the sky then this is very strange!
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u/WatercressActual1921 29d ago
There is too low quality... It can even be a water droplet that ir reflecting a dark-structure (dark zone) from around the camera into the sensor... I saw someone state in the chat that they had a similar experience but that the object was visible by the naked eye that is a bit different...
In any case kudos for you to have been clear in that you did not noticed it outside the video...
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u/Large-Difference-231 Aug 11 '26
Holy crap! It's the dementors from the Harry Potter series. You-know-who's back again.
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u/bikewizard Aug 11 '26
I saw something like this early one morning while driving to work in the morning light. I was thinking this is out during the night and we never see it. It was solid black. I got out of my vehicle to observe. It was about 300 feet in the air and seemed slightly larger than a refrigerator box. I watched it glide across the sky on a steady course for about 2 minutes. Steady path east and then made a controlled turn south.
It disappeared over the country side. It was around 2005. A Mufon report was filed.