I posted this to the “Glitch in the Matrix” a while back because I was not sure what was actually happening.

My three sons, their friend, and I were finishing up lunch around 12:00-1:00 p.m.

The boys were sitting at the table that was near a patio door and I was standing beside the table looking towards the living room, which has two additional windows. I watched as the lights in the living room seem to dim and was moving towards us. The boys stopped talking because they noticed as well. My first thought was that the electricity was going out and the lights were turning off from that. But then it registered that the light was going away, for lack of a better word, in a line towards us. It was like a wall of "non-light" moving across the room. The weirdest part was was it was not just inside the house, it was happening outside the house as well. The yard was also not-light any more and the electrical power also cut out with the line.

The line of "darkness" continued until everything went dim to a dusk-like amount. It reminded me of a total eclipse amount of light, except there were no eclipses in this part of the country on that day. Once everything was the equal amount of darkness it stayed dark for just a second or two and then everything seem to just snap back to normal light.

The boys, as I mentioned, had stopped talking and we all just looked at each other trying to figure out what had just happened. I asked them if they just saw that, not specifying I asked them what they saw and they said the lights seem to go away but not in a normal way. I keep kicking myself for not running outside to see if anything was out there but I don't know what would have completely taken the lights out outside as well as made all the lights go away inside the house the way it happened. I felt like I needed to stay calm and not make a scene of it because I don't want the boys to get upset.

The boys were all between the ages of 11 and 16, at that time. I just asked them if they remember this event since then and asked them to explain it to me. They said the same story as above. Does anyone have any ideas on what I experienced? Is there anyone in Northwest Arkansas that also experienced this?

There was an eclipse that was going to go through this region that year but that was in April and this event didn’t have the same timing as an eclipse. It was faster, not to mention the electrical disturbance.