VIDEO: Mysterious Flashing Red Lights Spotted on White House’s Second Floor

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Katherine Rodriguez

Mysterious flashing red lights beamed from the White House’s second-floor windows Sunday night, causing much speculation on social media about what those pulsating red lights might be.

The TV cameras that regularly face the White House caught this spectacle of red lights coming from two second-floor windows of the White House at around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, the New York Post reported.

President Trump, who recently returned from a nine-day trip abroad, was home at the White House when it happened.

People on social media were quick to speculate on what was behind the red lights.

One Twitter user joked that the president was playing “an intense game of Operation” while another joked that Melania was “sending out a distress signal.” One user speculated that Trump took “the glowing orb” home from Saudi Arabia.

Others suggested that the lights were just from emergency vehicles in the area.

NBC’s “Today” show reported that the lights were present for about 20 minutes, but have not been seen since then.

It turns out that the lights were not related to the White House at all

A spokesperson for the Secret Service said in a statement the lights came from an ambulance responding to a medical emergency adjacent to the White House.

“The red lights had nothing to do with the White House,” a Secret Service spokesperson told the Post.

D.C. Fire and EMS also confirmed that the medical emergency had nothing to do with the White House.

Doug Buchanan, the communications chief for D.C. Fire and EMS, said an ambulance and a fire truck responded to an incident at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House where a man fell ill on one of the park benches at 8:09 p.m.

Buchanan added that first responders treated the man at the scene from 8:12 to 8:47 p.m., but the man refused transportation to a hospital.

 

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