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Two readers have e-mailed us with reports of strange, pretty lights over Brooklyn or Queens last night. Here's an account of one sighting:
I saw something weird in the sky last night, and a bunch of other people did, too. Disclaimer: I am NOT a U.F.O. person, nor do I think that's what I saw. I'm just very curious to figure out what exactly it was. I'm sure there's a scientific explanation of some kind.Anyone else notice last night's light show, or have any theories? Did the DEP finally activate the true purpose of the illuminated Greenpoint Sludge Digester Egg Spaceships? (The DEP tells us they weren't testing any lights last night.) Seems like there's a lot of weird phenomenon baffling the region these days: the maple syrup smell is haunting us again, groundhogs are wild with bloodlust, UFOs are hovering in Jersey... If you connect all the dots, you know where it all leads, don't you?I live in Williamsburg, and I was coming home from a bar (only two drinks) at about 12:30-12:40 early Wednesday morning. I noticed in the sky over Queens that there was a bright green, vertical band of light. As I watched, the column changed between green, blue, white, and red. At some times it appeared there were two columns barely separated. The column was limited in its vertical height, and was really more of a segment. The segment began and terminated far above the ground.
I stopped other people and they were amazed to see it as well. I came across several people in McCarren Park who were standing out in the cold watching it. It began to get weaker and faded about 1:15 a.m... It was really beautiful! Was it an art project, something being projected into the sky? It appeared in the North/East, beyond McCarren Park. Again, I'm not a "tinfoil" type. Just awed and really curious!
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I have my I Want to Believe poster all ready.
Tom, Katie and Suri were flying back home last night...
All the dots lead to....... A light test at Citi Field. I saw it last night.
"It appeared in the North/East, beyond McCarren Park."
An idea: The sci-fi TV show Fringe has been filming in that area. No idea if they were there last night, but I ran across them about three nights ago. I went to investigate because from a couple of blocks away I saw this eerie looking smoke drifting across the intersection along with flashing lights. Turned out they were using something to generate this fog or smoke so it'd be drifting through their shot. Wouldn't seem unlikely for them also to use some kind of light effects.
That was at the intersection of Calyer and Banker, just a few blocks north of McCarren Park.
Maybe they were doing something there, but my window looks out at Shea (*sniff) and Citi Field. They've been testing the lights for a couple of nights. Last night it was cloudy so it looked a little spooky when they used the blue and green lights. I was hoping to see some blue and orange...
The new Yankee Stadium has been testing new illuminations at night- Green, red, blue, etc. Maybe that's it?
Yea, I saw this in Astoria last night, looking northeast. Just looked like a spotlight being projected into the sky.
yankee stadium
Yep, Yankee stadium makes sense from the original post also. Looking up Bedford Ave you're facing generally in that direction.
There wasn't any auroral activity last night so it wasn't the northern lights.
The baseball stadiums are 7-8 miles away. I can't imagine their lights are designed to point outward from the stadium. Plus, why would they be testing the lights after midnight?
All hail Kang & Kodos.
Not sure why it was happening, but it was going all night at Citi Field.
I stand corrected.
It's a cookbook!!!!!!
http://gothamist.com/2009/01/29/as_lights_shine_in_new_stadium_yank.php
Could be a similar thing at Citi Field?
Love, love, love the photoshop!
...But it melted my brain.
Thanks—I'm working on trying to have at least one groundhog Photoshop image every day for February.
It's my new wallpaper.
Why aren't there pictures? It seems like almost everyone has a camera phone and/or a small digital camera with them at all times...
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
may I see it?
No.
jake's watching over us, folks
STOOOOOONED.
has anyone else wandered around the back of those DEP digesters in Greenpoint since they got the purple light treatment? there's some amazing stainless steel flare stacks where they burn off the methane, right next to the street. makes for an amazing photo op:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3339/3202693304_f87a56a6d3_b.jpg and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imjustsayin/3202694112/in/photostream/
I saw this as well while walking across McCarren. Couldn't be Yankee stadium because the light was in the Eastern sky. At first I thought it was from a spotlight but there was no sign of it beneath this "anomaly". Very weird but nice to look at, the colors were very vibrant too which was odd, and they would change after about 10 seconds or so. No idea what it could be, could of had something to do with the snow/ice.
I TOOK PICS AND JUST SENT THEM TO GOTHAMIST TO POST. THERE IS NO WAY THIS WAS FROM YANKEE STADIUM OR SHEA. THE PICS WILL SETTLE THAT, BUT WILL DEFINITELY RAISE QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT PRODUCED THE LIGHT, WHICH WAS VERY COOL LOOKING, IT CHANGED EVERY 10 SEC OR SO AND WAS SOMETIMES RED, BLUE, PURPLE, WHITE, AND GREEN. IT CONTINUED FOR MAYBE 15 MIN AND LOOKED TO BE SHINING VERTICALLY DOWN RATHER THAN UP. IT WAS ALSO SUPER HIGH IN THE SKY.
How come only a few hipsters in Wburg have reported this?
Another one of their annoying "art" projects"?
Well hey, if his is from the testing of lights at Shea then we will be seeing them all summer long and that will put this all to rest.
Gothamist, please follow up!!!
:)