A video filmed at a Florida beach during a thunderstorm showing lights in the sky is being falsely shared as footage captured moments before the fire in Lahaina, in Hawaii’s Maui County, in August 2023.
“Looks like a direct energy weapon to me,” reads a Facebook post sharing the video, which shows streaks of lights in the sky filmed from a shore (here).
It was also shared on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, with the caption “What’s that in the Maui sky... just before the ‘fire’ #MauiFire” (here).
Reuters has fact-checked similar false claims that DEWs or other secret attacks are to blame for the wildfires (here), (here).
Video filmed at Florida beach predates Lahaina, Maui, fire in August 2023.
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Reuters, Office, Naval Research, Google, YouTube, Media, Dogtooth Media
Locations:
Florida, Lahaina, Hawaii’s Maui County, Fort Lauderdale, Hawaii, Maui