Our Lady of Assiut Need Debunking Pt. 2

[shawnfrye]

A little while ago I posted about the alleged supernatural phenomena at Assiut, Egypt in 2000. There were lights that seemed to be naturalistically inexplicable. Click here for a compilation of videos.

You guys were a tremendous help, and convinced me that some of the "lights" were merely just the moon.

But since rewatching the video I just linked, I still have unanswered questions.

See this screenshot at 1:29:

It fades out at around 1:47:

At 2:01 there appears to be another light source above it:

Then at 2:04 there seems to be a flash of light that comes out of nowhere.

Before:

After:

Then at 4:34 there's this quick flash of light:

These lights don't appear to have a source. Can anyone with knowledge in optics or photography give insight on these phenomena?

 

[John J.]

A little while ago I posted about the alleged supernatural phenomena at Assiut, Egypt in 2000. There were lights that seemed to be naturalistically inexplicable. Click here for a compilation of videos.

You guys were a tremendous help, and convinced me that some of the "lights" were merely just the moon.

But since rewatching the video I just linked, I still have unanswered questions.

You are asking similar questions about the same source material as you posted in your first thread. Why not continue in that thread, Our Lady of Assuit Need Debunking (@Landru ?)

See this screenshot at 1:29:

It appears to be a poorly-focussed and poorly-stabilized piece of filming of something bright in an otherwise dark environment.
We don't know where the camera was pointing, at what, or when that footage was taken (no camera time/ date).

Then at 2:04 there seems to be a flash of light that comes out of nowhere.

There are a number of lights/ flashes of light in the video.
They are consistent with brief flashes from (probably) electric lights.
Egyptians have electric lights.

The light at 2:04 probably doesn't "come out of nowhere", it is likely to be an electric light briefly flashed on like other lights in the footage, but this one, at that time, was perhaps focussed toward the camera.
Is there any compelling reason to think otherwise?
You posed a similar question about a similar light in post #26 of the other thread. It too was probably an electric light, briefly flashed on.

We can't say with certainty what the various lights are in the video, but there isn't any reason to believe they're anomalous.
They might be connected with the claimed sightings in the sense that they are perhaps an improvised light show for the benefit of the faithful and the curious who have congregated there. There is no evidence that the person filming the church, or others present at the time, believed these lights to be extraordinary.
"Our Lady of Assiut" refers to Marian apparitions. These are not Marian apparitions.