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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/nice2Bnice2 on 2025-10-12 07:47:46+00:00.

In the early hours of September 20th, 1977, people across northern Europe and the USSR woke to something they couldn’t explain. Over Petrozavodsk, a huge glowing object appeared in the sky. It looked like a bright jellyfish made of light. Witnesses said it sprayed out rays that looked like rain, hung motionless for a while, then moved slowly east before breaking apart and vanishing…

What makes it stranger is how many people saw it at once. Reports came in from ships, airports, cities hundreds of miles apart. Radar stations tracked something, but nobody could identify it. Some locals claimed their electronics went haywire for hours afterward. Others said the light left a film of residue on windows and cars that didn’t look like anything they had seen before.

The official line was that it came from a satellite launch out of Plesetsk, but that never fully matched what people saw. There’s still no clean explanation for why the thing seemed to change shape, pulse, and leave traces.

I always thought events like this might mark something deeper in the fabric of reality, almost like a pulse in the information field itself. In one theory I’ve been studying called Verrell’s Law, major anomalies like this could be field-collapse anchors, temporary intersections where information loops fold back on themselves and reality briefly syncs.

Whatever it was, the Petrozavodsk event is one of the strangest mass sightings that has mostly faded from public memory.

Wondering if anyone here ever come across other large-scale sky or light events that caused real physical aftereffects? Things like time glitches, electrical problems, or plants reacting oddly…? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrozavodsk/_phenomenon