A wierd sight out of a plane window on a night flight from Vietnam to Australia has baffled social media users.
Lots of of tiny orange and yellow squares will be seen lit up within the darkness below the aircraft in a video viewed greater than 14 million times since being uploaded to TikTok earlier in December.
Brad Stewart filmed the view on his flight from Ho Chi Minh to Melbourne, asking people on the platform to inform him what the glowing squares were.
It is known the Aussie traveler had caught footage of Vietnam’s dragon fruit farms, that are lit up at night to trigger flowering and fruiting and extend the growing season.
In keeping with Atop Lighting, a horticulture lighting manufacturer in China, the same old dragon fruit season runs when the duration of daylight is 12 hours or more per day.
“One technique to extend the growing season and increase the yield of dragon fruits is to make use of LED grow lights in the course of the evening,” the manufacturer explains on its website. “By utilizing LED grow lights, farmers could make the daylight longer and trick the plants into considering that it continues to be summer.”
Vietnam was an enormous exporter of dragon fruit, also generally known as pitaya or pitahaya, but based on local media, the country’s exports have plummeted because the pandemic.
Stewart’s video attracted 1000’s of comments and even after TikTok users had answered the lights were dragon fruit farms, people were still convinced it was a video of confetti on a concert or nightclub floor.
“My brain can’t do dragon fruit farms. lol. I see confetti,” one comment read, gaining greater than 95,000 likes.
“Genuinely thought ur filming a concert floor stuffed with confetti,” said one other, with 36,000 likes.
“Could possibly be dragon fruit farms or might be the world attempting to render ur fast travel speed,” joked another person.
Many others were convinced it was a video of sticky notes.
“No way this isn’t a bunch of cut up post-it notes,” wrote one person.
“Post-it notes floating on water,” stated one other.
Some people claimed it was “a glitch within the matrix”, the moon reflecting off roofs, and even Christmas lights.
“That’s wild, I’d never have guessed,” said one in every of many shocked viewers.
“Checking out that they’re dragon fruit farms still doesn’t help me get my head around. I actually have some googling to do,” wrote one other.
“Wow I’ve never seen this! So beautiful, looks like confetti. Adding a dragon fruit farm to my bucket list,” penned a 3rd.
“I can’t even tell if I’m really looking of an airplane window or not?” added one confused man.
