2016-09-11 - Granville, NY - Light

Strange white lights close to the ground

I’m not sure if this is the place to report this but it has me worried and I’m not sure exactly what I did see.

I awoke at 3 AM and went to use the bathroom. For some reason I looked out the window, I was on the second floor, and started noticing strange lights on my neighbors’ property. At first I thought it was a vehicle shining lights on the trees or the barn, but longer I looked the more I realized it wasn’t a vehicle.

I could never really see the source of the lights as there is a tree line between our properties, but they were in multiple places in their pasture and beyond to the woods behind their property. I could catch a glimpse of some sort of white light moving about. They must have been staying close to the ground because they kept up- lighting the trees.

The lights turned on and off, sometimes fading out, sometimes shutting off like someone threw a switch. They moved around, they made no sound. One thing I did notice was right above that area was some small lightning bolts every now and then. There was no thunder. When I looked up all I saw were stars. We did have storms come through although not until after sunrise. I watched the lights for more than 3 hours. I was moving from window to window trying to figure it out. I woke my husband up to look at them. He did see them and went back to bed. I was too worried to go back to sleep and too afraid to wander onto their property alone to try to get a better look.

I went up to check with the neighbors (after sunrise) and they heard and saw nothing. They were in bed.

After I thought about it, I believe I saw those lights once before. I wrote it off as the neighbor being out on his tractor late at night. I guess it wasn’t so.

If anyone knows what this might be or could tell me what kind of camera I could use to try to capture this if it happens again, I would greatly appreciate it.