Check Out These Stunning Natural Laser Beams That Blessed North Bay

A North Bay resident was surprised to look outside at 1:30 a.m. and see a dozens of laser beams shooting down from the sky.

“It looked like someone from Star Trek was trying to beam people up,” said Timothy Joseph Elzinga of the mysterious light pillars.

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And they are indeed mysterious – and very much different from the more familiar phenomenon we know as the Northern Lights.

National Geographic gives the following explanation: “Light pillars appear when artificial light (shown in diagram above) or natural light bounces off the facets of flat ice crystals wafting relatively close to the ground.”

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Too bad. We were hoping for aliens.

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