{"id":73523,"date":"2017-05-29T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73523"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:36:41","slug":"why-were-there-flashing-red-light-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73523","title":{"rendered":"Why were there flashing red light at the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pulsing red lights spotted on second floor of the White\u00a0House<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Marisa Schultz | New York Post<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VIDEO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VIDEO<\/a> What do you think the flashing lights are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> right now? They seem to be inside the 2nd floor residence. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FOX35?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FOX35<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/37Iga3XQOL\">pic.twitter.com\/37Iga3XQOL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Johnson (@Used2BThatTVGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Used2BThatTVGuy\/status\/868987706914811904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Mysterious flashing red lights were spotted from the White House on Sunday night and social media has lit up with plenty of wild explanations.<\/p>\n<p>TV cameras regularly positioned on the White House caught the red strobe lights around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The pulsing light seemed to be emanating from two windows on the second floor of the residence.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump was home at the White House following his nine-day foreign trip.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for the White House and the US Secret Service have not yet commented on what the red lights were. But social media erupted with plenty of theories, ranging from a disco dance party to a back-channel <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jobs4nctexas\/status\/869180592667189248\">code to the Russians.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Red lights flashing at the White House. What&#39;s going on? We&#39;re checking on it .<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wsvn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wsvn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8UncIP9uGB\">pic.twitter.com\/8UncIP9uGB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robbin Simmons (@RobbinSimmons7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobbinSimmons7\/status\/868991562168115200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some Twitter users joked it was a Trump tanning bed on the fritz or the president unwinding with an intense<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MaureenDavid17\/status\/869042122732617728\"> game of Operation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One practical suggestion was the lights were merely a reflection from an emergency vehicle in the area.<\/p>\n<p>It was Trump\u2019s first full day at the White House since his inaugural foreign trip and he was huddling with advisers on the latest developments in the Russia investigation that has now swept up his son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>Others mused that Trump brought home the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyPeric\/status\/869045248944611328\">glowing orb from Saudi Arabia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red lights lasted for about 20 minutes, according to NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show. They haven\u2019t been spotted since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of this morning, the red light mystery lives on,\u201d said NBC\u2019s Dylan Dreyer.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/05\/29\/what-exactly-were-those-flashing-red-lights-at-the-white-house\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/05\/29\/what-exactly-were-those-flashing-red-lights-at-the-white-house\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulsing red lights spotted on second floor of the White\u00a0House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}