Twitter Had Lots Of Theories About Those Flashing Red Lights On The White House
Late on Sunday, videos and photos of flashing red lights seemingly going off inside the White House started making their way around Twitter.
A local Fox station, which had its camera feed pointed at the White House, said the flashes could be seen around 8:30 p.m. EDT from windows on the executive mansion’s second-floor. “The lights seemed to be strobing inside the building,” the news station wrote on its Facebook page. “We’re working to find out what those were.”
#VIDEO What do you think the flashing lights are in the @WhiteHouse right now? They seem to be inside the 2nd floor residence. #FOX35 pic.twitter.com/37Iga3XQOL
— Tom Johnson (@FOX35Tom) May 29, 2017
No explanation was immediately available from the White House, so naturally Twitter users started offering up some thoughts:
Those red lights flashing inside the White House seem fine & not like a meeting w/ alien overlords &/or a Manchurian Candidate thing at all.
— Jill Weinberger (@jillybobww) May 29, 2017
Say what you will about the Obama admin, they never lit sepulchral red strobe lights in the White House on the night before Memorial Day.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 29, 2017
I've seen those lights flashing in the White House and all I can think about is pic.twitter.com/4UJpJED6j9
— JustinWayne (@ILL_LumiNaughty) May 29, 2017
Everybody relax. The flashing red lights coming from inside the White House are just a simple code being transmitted to Russian overseers.
— Michael Hicks (@MikeH5856) May 29, 2017
@SethAbramson It's an orb that was brought back from Saudi Arabia....Trump's hoping it will rid the place of all Russia related material.
— Tammy Dzwilewski (@tdzwilewski) May 29, 2017
@SethAbramson Looks like a rave, where are my glow sticks.
— Trey Lucas (@trlucas3) May 29, 2017
@SethAbramson He probably pulled the fire alarm because his Diet Coke button didn't work.
— Firemark (@CassFiremark) May 29, 2017
Here's another view of those lights. Apparently this is real, and unexplained. My favorite proposed explanation so far: "Orb malfunction." https://t.co/mzrv7p1Vhp
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 29, 2017
There's only one person I trust to investigate the unexplained red strobe lights in the White House pic.twitter.com/ukLgodCC7R
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) May 29, 2017
@ucla_007 @RobbinSimmons7 @wsvn Disco Party pic.twitter.com/8wXh4dfn59
— M. Wilson (@LWOSmwilson1113) May 29, 2017
Fox 35 anchor Tom Johnson tweeted that the lights eventually turned off, and it could have been a reflection of sirens or from something happening on the street.
Apparently, Johnson’s speculation was correct. The New York Post reported Monday that the Secret Service said a medical incident occurred outside the White House grounds, and the lights were a reflection from the emergency vehicles responding to the matter.
“The red lights had nothing to do with the White House,” the newspaper quoted a Secret Service spokesperson as saying.
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#VIDEO Well, whatever it was, it’s stopped now and all is back to normal for the @WhiteHouse #FOX35 pic.twitter.com/iJFQzNikcb
— Tom Johnson (@FOX35Tom) May 29, 2017
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.