Lights Appeared in a Man’s Yard, Then Vanished When His Phone Flash Went Off

At around 5 a.m., a man noticed lights outside the back window of his home. At first, he thought someone was waving a flashlight around in the yard. When he went outside, the light changed before his eyes.

A single light split into two or three lights. They arranged themselves in a triangle, with another light at the center, and stayed that way for about 10 minutes. Then, as the man tried to take a picture with his phone, the flash went off by accident, and the lights disappeared immediately.

The man described the sighting, his first, in an interview with the FBI. It took place in 2021. He called someone else over to see the lights. But the strangest moment came while he was taking a picture: the flash went off, and the lights vanished.

A Light in the Yard Became a Triangle

The man was at home in the northeastern United States. At first, the lights looked like a flashlight someone was moving around in the yard. Only after he went outside did he see that the single light had become several lights, arranged in a triangle.

Another light appeared at the center of the formation. It remained in front of him for about 10 minutes. Then he called someone else over so they could see what was in the yard, too. The document says the other person was called over to see the lights, but does not say what they said or did.

The Flash Went Off, and the Lights Vanished

The man tried to take a picture with his phone. The flash went off by accident, and the lights disappeared immediately afterward. He described this as the first of several incidents in the area over the years leading up to his interview.

Later, he tried to find out whether aircraft had been flying overhead. He compared the times of the sightings with information showing where aircraft were flying, trying to determine whether some of the lights were planes. He also described other incidents in the interview, but they do not change the moment when the triangle vanished with the flash of his phone.

What Remains Unknown

It is not known what the lights were, what the other person saw, or why they disappeared immediately after the flash. The man checked whether they might have been aircraft, but the document does not identify the lights as aircraft.