Spawning 'n' following white flares/graphical errors

[Space Cowbuoy]

Firstly apologies for no logs or detailed computer specs I just want some advice as to what the heck this *could* be so I can at least have a ham fist at fixing it myself. I've trawled Reddit, these forums and the rest of the internet for a few days now trying to find somebody with a similar issue/solution and I can't, although I won't believe I'm the only person to see these. They happen randomly, although they tend to appear a lot after staging, and follow the vessel at a set distance, anywhere from inside the part to several hundred meters away [maybe further but I doubt you'd notice them] EDIT: The one in the picture below is about 200m above my splashed down craft. It shot upwards from my vessel during descent at approx. 1000m altitude while I was dropping at about 110m/s.

For me personally they're also ultimately infuriating and are beginning to ruin the game because they just look too crazy. Yes, I use a metric poo-tonne of mods but I've seen these on fresh installs as well, been noticing them on Windows and Linux 32 and 64-bit since version 1.x... Any thoughts you crazy cats?

Edited July 2, 2015 by Space Cowbuoy
New observation

[MatterBeam]

The disk of light you sometimes get is a KSP bug in the way it handles lighting. One way to reduce the frequency of this error is to increase the number of light sources being used in the graphics settings menu (default 8, I think).

[Kaa253]

Try un-installing Distant Objects. They went away for me after doing that.

[Space Cowbuoy]

Don't mean to necro, but have to confirm deleting DOE from my Gamedata folder fixes this infuriating issue! Peace.