Last summer, I experienced a very similar occurrence. I was up late as usual, maybe 3am. The night had been pretty humid, which isn’t out of the ordinary where I live. We had a lot of storms last summer, but this night was very clear and placid.

which initially made me think it was the beginning of another thunderstorm since we had been getting quite a few around that time. I soon realized that it was unlikely to be lightning, at least ordinary lightning... it flashed bright, white light, solely on the west side of my house. I It happened on the west side of the house, and I was sitting in our living room, which is on the south side of the house. I could see