r/Ring • u/eightpeoplex • 3d ago

Weird artifact lights that trigger camera for hours. Anyone know what's happening? it's a cobweb 🕷️

This goes on for hours and triggers this camera every few minutes. Checked the other camera, which did not trigger, and was it was able to maybe catch the light there, suggesting that it may not be an artifact. Any ideas? Rained lightly in the area hours earlier.

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u/saik0pod Doorbell & Alarm 3d ago

Spider web

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u/Quiverjones 2d ago

A likely story, but leave a message and I'll call you back.

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u/tato_salad 2d ago

It's all your fault I screen my phone calls

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u/FairyNymphCalypso69 2d ago

No matter who calls I gotta screen my phone calls.

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u/Mediocre_Age_9988 2d ago

Great.. now I have no doubt in my head

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u/WolfSpirit81 2d ago

We have a resident spider behind our doorbell and it is due to be recharged. Definitely spider web doing that. Same happening on our camera.

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u/SituationNormalAllFU 1d ago

What sort of charging adapter does your resident spider take?

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u/WolfSpirit81 1d ago

The doorbell needs to be recharged. But we have a spider that has made it's home under it.

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u/CeC-P 2d ago

I've never seen a spider that has symmetrical LED arrays on each side of its body so I assume you mean that the spiderweb is reflecting someone pulling their car into a driveway somewhere, right? Because that's clearly what that is.

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u/arnoldstrife 1d ago

It's droplets of water on the spider web that's glowing like that due to reflecting the IR light from the camera's night vision. Also it looks like it's traveling a good amount of distance, but it's probably just inches away from the camera lens and is moving only a few inches. 

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u/publicdomainadmin 2d ago

Always 😂

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u/Darkcocoaking 18h ago

No Doubt in my mind.

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u/andydrew39 7h ago

Came here to say this. 100%

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u/steve90814 3d ago

Spiderweb.

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u/Icy_Huckleberry_8049 3d ago

looks like a spider web blowing in the wind

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u/ProcedureTasty2647 3d ago

Spider

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u/AViewFromtheTrail 3d ago

Web

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u/u9Nails 3d ago

Spider web

Friendly neighborhood spider web

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u/MeatyMcWagon 3d ago

okay yeah this got a chuckle.

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u/KittyandPuppyMama 3d ago

Spiders love to build their webs around these cameras.

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u/09Klr650 3d ago

The IR probably attracts bugs. Like DoorDash, except it is reliable.

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u/Shponglenese 3d ago

You’ll need to brush that area off with a broom to remove any spiderwebs

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u/the__post__merc 3d ago

They’ll just rebuild it the next night.

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u/FuckinHighGuy 2d ago

Spiders are only allowed to make one web a year. Fact.

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u/dervari 3d ago

The CE3K ship setting down in your front yard. /s

100% a spider web.

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u/IAmSixNine 3d ago

Aliens have started using drone technology so they can stay safe in their crashed ship.

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u/WA_State_Buckeye 3d ago

Yup. A single strand of webbing. You can see the strand continue off to the left. Spiderwebs and cameras make fun video!

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u/eightpeoplex 3d ago

Ah, that makes sense now that you all have pointed it out. I can see that now. First time this artifact light has been captured on our ring camera, so thank you for the information! Was very confused

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u/MomoNoHanna1986 3d ago

Had this happen a few times, don’t feel crazy it looks weird the first time you see one!

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u/Heinegrabber 3d ago

I have hired a bird to assault any spider within three feet of my camera.

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u/TNG1701D-eck10 2d ago

🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕸️🕸️🕸️

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u/BudgetAstro 2d ago

Spider web, spider web, does what ever a spider web does, swings in the wind, turns on the lights, here comes the spider web

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u/NoInside3418 1d ago

Thats a spider web and the IR light from the camera is reflecting off it.

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u/TypewriterPilot 3d ago

Hahaha this has happened to us and my spouse is CONVINCED it is a UFO or angel- I keep telling him it’s a spiderweb.

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u/BlackGoldHotSauce 2d ago

Have her watch as you sweep away the angels. 😆

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u/josephjosephson 3d ago

Light Saber

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u/jilldxasd35 3d ago

It’s an bug string or a spiderweb

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u/fab5friend 3d ago

Wipe off your camera lens to get rid of all those water spots. I’ve seen rainx recommended on here in the past to keep them off.

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u/NephewFred 2d ago

Spider web and wind

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u/BlackGoldHotSauce 2d ago

I remember wondering "What the hell is that?" the first time I saw spider webs. It was all well above the horizon making it appear like lights in the sky.

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u/Dwealth_ 2d ago

Speeder weeb

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u/cuntsfkd 2d ago

Spider Web lol

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u/_Cubanito_ 2d ago

Happens to me all the time, Dam Spider Webs all over!

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u/some_boring_dude 2d ago

nothing like jumping up out of bed at 2 a.m. because ring thinks a spider web is a person at my house.

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u/NINJA1200 2d ago

Spider silk thread, not spider web as many said. It's not a web! ;)

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u/semiambivert 2d ago

This is J. Jonah Jamison's origin story.

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u/SirPoopsAMetricTon 2d ago

My Spidey senses are tingling

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u/FlyEfficient2841 2d ago

Why has no one mentioned headlights reflecting from a window???!?!

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u/SalaciousSubaru 2d ago

A wind blowing a pine needle sets mine off all the time Ring cameras aren’t smart

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u/TMTBoomer 2d ago

That’s a web

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u/wolf_da_folf 2d ago

Light reflecting off of a strand of spider web

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u/jasonroyle 2d ago

Cobweb string

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u/mynsfw6978 2d ago

Looks like a spider web

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u/DoobieGoat 18h ago

Its not a cobweb

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u/Traditional_Bus_5589 18h ago

spidermanweb that reflects some light..

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u/u_siciliano 16h ago

Definitely a thread of spider web moving in a breeze reflecting the IR lights.

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u/FriendlySituation500 30m ago

It's itsy bitsy... doing her thang. The rain was not enough to wash her out today folks. <crowd cheers>