I only commented on the “infrared strobe” because the article stated it. What I was a getting at is this: The red lights are most definitely not inside the White House. They are reflections on the monitor screen.
On the north front of the White House, second floor, west end, there are four windows (as pictured in the video linked in this article).
The window on the far right is in the family kitchen. The next 2 adjacent windows are in the family residence dining room.
The red lights supposedly inside the White House would then be in the kitchen, and in half of the dining room.
Just to the right of the kitchen window, in midair there is a large whitish reflection on the monitor screen, and further to the right there a four large green bars reflected. Thus, the red flashing lights are reflections on the monitor screen that coincidentally appear to be from inside the windows (although a small portion of this red reflection covers the outer wall next to the second window from the right).
I understood what you meant
Great analysis, the kind of work we come to Free Republic for.
But even if we assume there are flashes of light inside rooms of the White House, are there easy explanations? For example, if there are red fire or other emergency alert flashers (and I’ve certainly worked in federal facilities that had them), what better time to test them than a weekend when the facility is minimally staffed, with no outside visitors?
This “story” is a big nothingburger for the reason you point out. But it would still be a nothingburger, regardless.
If there was a light in the dining room that was that bright (and flashing) it would also be seen in the other dining room window.
And yes, you can clearly see the dining room red flash extending over a small portion of the adjacent wall to the right of the window.
You are correct, it is a small reflection on the monitor screen, not a light inside the White House.
Looking closely at the top of the four vertical green bars you can see a small segment of the color yellow and above that is two additional segments that are red.
Counting the segments from bottom to top there are seven green segments, one yellow segment and two red segments for a total of ten.
This is most clear in the far right vertical green bar.
To me it has the appearance of a portion of a sound equalizer being reflected from the surface of the monitor coming from behind the recording camera.
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