Backyard Observer Reports Sun 'Blinked' Beneath Cloudless Sky

THE INTERNET — A brief and unexplained dimming of the daylight was reported this week by a Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix, who asks of the community: "The sun just blinked?"

According to the post, the author was facing a backyard under a sky without a single cloud. The light and shadows playing across a wooden fence and a metal fence, the writer states, went dark for "just a split second" before returning. The sensation is compared to someone turning a room's light switch off and on again.

The author takes care to rule out several ordinary suspects. A bird, the post argues, could not be large enough to block the sun, and an airplane big enough to cast such a shadow would surely have made a noise. No other explanation is offered.

The writer closes with a candid note of context, observing that they have used cannabis in the past and that this was nonetheless the strangest thing they had experienced. The post does not say whether the author was under any influence at the time of the event, and no other witnesses are mentioned.

The post had, at the time of writing, offered no confirmation from other observers in the source material. Readers who found themselves in the same time zone with an unobstructed view of the sun are invited to consult their own recollections.