[Swordmaker]

The Last of the "meteors" on the left, some of the flickering starting in the Palms on the Right
and below the "meteors" on the right.

I had not noticed the lobed nature of the "meteors" until I blew this photo up. . . but now I can see that there is a distinct tri-lobed pattern in the tail that may be caused by the flapping of wings obscuring the light of whatever is causing the streaming tail.

Lights in the Palm Trees After the "Meteor" Shower Ended

There were a lot more before we got the camera out. . . sometimes the trees were just covered with lights. Same on the right. Note the Blue White color.

Furthest left circle is around a fading globe of light.

To get these photos to show at all—they were completely black to the eye—I brought them into the Apple Preview App and used the Tools and pushed the "Exposure" control to the MAX and then brought the "Shadow" control up. I also increased "Sharpness" in each of them.

This may give you an idea of what they looked like before processing. This is the worst of them and I was unable to get anything from this one, which was supposed to have some of the "meteors" on it, rats:

[Paladin2]

Local Features (bugs)....

[huldah1776]

be thankful the poles aren't flipping and earth is still protected by the magnetic field...

just learned about the Carolina Bays
Carolina Bays

"Bay Formation Theories One of the first proposals for the formation of the Carolina Bays was made by Melton and Schriever from the University of Oklahoma in 1933. They suggested that a meteorite shower or a colliding comet coming from the northwest could have created the bays. Surface structures created by impacts only became accepted around 1960, when geologist Eugene M. Shoemaker presented criteria for establishing that Meteor Crater in Arizona was the result of an extraterrestrial impact and not the caldera of an extinct volcano."

[gnarledmaw]

The pictures are too grainy for me to see, out of curiosity, did the lights look like orbs to your eye but in the picture appear to be something like a kite shield or the bottom of a glowing ducks foot?

[Yardstick]

What’s lighting up the trees in the pics? Is it just the camera flash or is there another light source?

Some birds have almost iridescent feathers — very reflective. Something like a hummingbird has sort of a dangling tri-lobed appearance with its tail fanned out below its body when in hover mode.

So that’s my theory: iridescent hummingbirds congregating in and around the trees reflecting some light source.

[21twelve]

” .... but now I can see that there is a distinct tri-lobed pattern in the tail that may be caused by the flapping of wings ...”

I thought of birds getting into bioluminescent stuff - but that is usually salt-water, although I did see an article on some rare freshwater stuff. (Google Earth shows the American River nearby - a google search of that mainly brought up e-Coli!!) Anyway - with the bio-luminescence - birds could dive in, get covered with the stuff, and then it wears out or the algae or whatever dies in the air).

Also something called a “click beetle” that has it, along with some other insects.

[Yosemitest]

Read about Piezoelectricity and Wikipedia has a good article on it.
Here's two videos on it that have some useful information.

Massive"Booms" Around the Planet/As Earth Slows Rotation. ( 11:45 )


What is COMING? Mysterious Booms Across the USA ( 6:29 )