Flashes in night sky in UK

I am in Sheffield and if I look eastwards I notice the sky is a lot brighter shade of orange than I am used to seeing normally.
No flashes though.

How strange. I live in Dudley, just west of Birmingham, and last night my girlfriend (who lives about half a mile away) texted me to say that the sky looked more orange than she had ever seen it. I just brushed it off as streetlamps reflecting on low cloud, but hey; I wonder if its something atmospheric?

i have also seen flashes here on the South Coast from south east facing window. Both from east and over the sea.

We're in Haywards Heath in West Sussex and there were several flashes in the north sky around 5.30pm just as I got out of my car home from work....thought it might be lightning or something

IT FUCKING FLASHING RIGHT NOW!!

3 TIMES IN A ROW!!!

ball lightning maybe?

i got my webcam recording out the window

perhaps...very strange!

wow that's great. if anything should show up please upload this to youtube as soon as possible for everyone to see. i already feel as if even more planet x related predictions are coming true...

same here in hull orange sky other night,my immediate thought was street lamps.seen more anomalies in the sky this year than rest of my years put together.

It's how the Black Triangles arrive and depart.

You see what looks like a shooting star and then this Black Triangle comes trundling past.

imagine this is atmospheric. damn... the end is nigh.

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I'm gonna go with lightning with no sound for now.

Since when does lightning flash every 8 mins, all during the dark hrs and every night when there is a clear sky it happens every night.
Could it be harp ?????????

I was gonna post about this the other day but thought it'd make me sound a bit of a

It was about 2am a week ago and I went out for a cigarette in my garden in Essex. I was looking at the orange clouds and suddenly noticed 2 flashes out the corner of my eye - to the west.

I stood there for another 5 minutes to see if it would happen again - then a certain spot in the sky flashed twice. It wasn't a standard flash like lightning or camera flash. Each flash lasted approx 2 seconds and was like a rolling flash - getting brighter. Each flash above the clouds tinted them a shade of green, then a pulse of purple/red at the end of each one that barely lasted half a second.

There was hardly a gap between the two and each set of flashes came from the exact same position in the sky.

Could have been lightning or something else but found it very weird. This didn't seem to light the whole sky up though, just a section about the size of orions belt

could be..i observed these flashes when it was snowing last week..who knows?

color ? Greens ?

Ions in the air. It's a mix of normal thunderstorms mixing with particules in the air, belched up by volcanos. Until normal clouds, these spread the ions around, and with normal electrical storms, can look amazing, if not frightening.
Other things you can notice with these clouds are strange colorings during sunrise and sunset. You may also notice dust coming down with rain (if any) and a strange, almost metalic smell. Although rare, you can also find larger-than-normal explosive lightening. These flashes are massive, and are known to go for miles along the cloudtops before striking the ground with enough force to cause an explosion. This is because of an increase in static discharges collecting together.

I'm sorry if my post isn't well typed, I'm typing quickly and in a low-light room.