{"id":3910,"date":"2025-03-11T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/strange-giant-star-like-bursts-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:25:37","slug":"strange-giant-star-like-bursts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/strange-giant-star-like-bursts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange giant star-like bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mysterious Giant Star-Like Bursts<\/strong><br \/>\nLast night, I witnessed an incredible phenomenon: massive bursts that would appear and vanish, resembling perfectly shaped starbursts. Each was the same size and radiated a brilliant white light with astonishing clarity. They popped up and disappeared at random across a large section of the sky, just beneath the cloud cover but high enough to illuminate a wide area. Each burst lasted for the same brief moment\u2014perhaps less than a second\u2014and there was no rise or fall to them; they simply emerged and faded away in the same spot. Despite their seemingly erratic display, there was a consistent spacing between them, with no two bursts too close or too far apart. This mesmerizing display lasted about 15 seconds, featuring roughly 50 to 70 bursts in total. I was utterly captivated.<\/p>\n<p>A few things to note: This occurred last night in Portland, Oregon, on February 13, just two minutes shy of midnight. Prior to this, a snow and windstorm had hit the area, followed by rain that created icy conditions. Shortly after the bursts, it began to snow lightly. I pondered this curious event for a while and eventually drifted off to sleep. This morning, I searched online for any explanations or similar occurrences, but found nothing that resembled my experience. It has left me with a feeling of having had a unique moment that felt almost otherworldly. I wish someone had been there to share it with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMysterious Giant Star-Like Bursts Last night, I witnessed an incredible phenomenon: massive bursts that would appear and vanish, resembling perfectly shaped starbursts. Each was the same size and radiated a brilliant white light with astonishing clarity. They popped up and disappeared at random across a large section of the sky, just beneath the cloud cover&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/strange-giant-star-like-bursts-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Strange giant star-like bursts&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}