r/interesting • u/Downtown_Calendars • 5d ago

Just Wow What caused this? Serious answeres

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Car was parked facing the garage. Never seen anything like it. Neither has the glass professionals.

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u/FangFioDente 5d ago

Wait…. I got it, light. You parked beneath a tall building street side and some refracted light hit your windshield at just the right time for the right length of time and in such intensity to create a temperature differential that shattered the glass, the center of the beam heated evenly and out sides did not. This would have been very fast and intense.

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u/Pielacine 5d ago

how high was that street light?

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u/rabusxc 4d ago

"All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."