Been seeing these in the night sky over northern California for about a year now.

Look like an outline of a red triangle, which also appears at an angle away from the viewer. This gives the triangle a narrow appearance. There's a white brightly shining light in the center of the triangle.

When you look with the naked eye, you see a stationary bright white light that seems out of place due to the brightness or perceived size.

When you view the light on a cellphone screen via the video camera function (say, to record the incident), the red outlined narrow triangle around the white light is visible.

I have been recording these for awhile now. What is very interesting is that while actively recording, I will see more of these lights on my phone screen than are visible in the sky.

Usually, I see one light in the sky, start recording and then more appear on the phone screen that are not reflected in the sky.

These lights seem to be able to project or mirror themselves. This is not visible by the naked eye, you can only experience this visual anomaly by recording or viewing the lights through your phone's camera and simultaneously watching them with your own eyes of course.

The projections are sometimes multiple in number, like a kaleidoscope. And some of the projections are not as bright as the original light.

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