Tempo Co., Ltd., jakarta – A video was shared showing red skies with tornadoes TikTok and facebook account [archive] This natural phenomenon reportedly occurred on December 18, 2025 in Pandegran Regency, Banten Province.
The video appears to have been shot by a driver on a city street. The sky above the city appears red and a tornado rolls up vertically. This natural phenomenon is associated with a premonition of disaster.
But did the red sky phenomenon accompanied by tornadoes really occur in Pandeglang?
fact check
tempo We verified content using visual observation, comparison to the original video, and artificial intelligence (AI) detection. A red sky phenomenon occurred in Pandegran Regency, but no tornadoes occurred. The videos being circulated were created using AI.
tempo We got the original video uploaded by the Instagram account showing the red sky phenomenon menezeman. This video was recorded on December 18, 2025 on the street in Panimbang area of Pandeglang. The location of the video is Google Maps During the day.
In the original video, there was no vertically moving tornado in Pandegran Regency.
rear tempo When we conducted a visual analysis of the circulating content, we discovered some oddities. First, the car in front of me stopped moving at all. Second, there were snow-like white spots on the video. This kind of weirdness is common in AI-generated videos.
Analysis using AI or not? The detection tool showed that there was a 97% chance that the video of a red sky with a tornado was artificially generated. meanwhile, image whisperer He said the video was generated by AI.
Pandeglang Red Sky Phenomenon
Berita Satu We reported that the phenomenon of the sky changing from orange to red actually occurred in Pandeglang on December 18, 2025. There were no tornadoes associated with this phenomenon.
Hartanto, head of the Banten Region Second Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency (BBMKG), explained that the red sky at that time was a natural atmospheric optical phenomenon. This phenomenon is known as Rayleigh scattering.
This optical effect can occur when the sun is low or near sunset. In this position, sunlight has to travel a longer distance to reach the human eye.
As a result, only long-wavelength colors like red and orange pass through the atmosphere and become visible. “Intense red colors are usually influenced by the presence of high concentrations of water vapor or aerosol particles in the air,” Hartandt says.
conclusion
tempoVerified by , a story circulating in a video showing a red sky phenomenon accompanied by a tornado in Pandeglang, Banten province. error.
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