OpterOnyx

Through many years sitting and staring up at the night sky over the ocean and the desert, I possibly may have discovered a phenomenon, that surprisingly, cannot be found on the internet in any form. During the entire night at both locations, where the air is full of salt/sand particles, I believe that winds constantly grinding these particles in air cause micro explosions, which in turn looks like barely visible bursts of light at night, like flashes of lightning without a streak of said lightning. It happens usually every night, throughout the night, just barely noticeable, but once it is noticed, it starts to become very annoying. These flashes of light occur even when there are no clouds to be seen above or anywhere in the distance. If my finding is correct, I am dubbing said occurrence as static-ning. If this phenomenon hasn't been touched on yet, it is hard to see how it hasn't. Unless it specifically just occurs on the beaches around Emerald Isle in North Carolina and around the regions of Albuquerque, New Mexico, I can't see why. Long live the idea of static-ning.