One of our readers sent us a video she took late Wednesday night from her high floor apartment on 69th and Riverside Boulevard. She was facing the camera east towards Central Park, and noticed a strange light changing colors in the sky.
At various points in the video, the light appears to be purple, red, green and blue. It also seems to take different hues of each color.
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Here are two videos which were both posted on April 29th:
And one from January 31st:
Anyone have a guess as to what is causing this? If so, leave a comment below!
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Northern lights, not too far North?
Looks like reflections from colored lighting on buildings, reflecting off clouds. Not uncommon, just usually not colored. We’ve seen this lots of times before in cloudy evenings but it’s more noticeable under certain atmospheric conditions.
Send the tapes to Mufon, they will be interested in investigating this!
My guess is the colored lights from the Kosciusko Bridge. If the clouds are low enough it could bounce right off them.
Kosciusko bridge!!!
I have a similar video taken in Astoria. We’ve been seeing these lights every night since pandemic but unfortunately only during cloudy nights.
https://youtu.be/iZCIs1tGiy4
I don’t think so. I am seeing this right now at 11:30 pm in queens on May 15, 2020.
No idea what it is but it seems it shows when cloudy.
I took a video and some pics last night and tonight both around the exact same times, there’s 2 lights both changing colors and the seem to be moving upwards
Cloud seeding is now adding stratospheric Injection to “combat climate change “. Last I heard it was sulphur but now I’m reading nitrate / need to reseaechit more
Just saw two of these light spots around 12:30 in Queens amidst a lightning storm…they moved away from my field of view and then it began to rain.
I saw them last night in the West Village around 11:30. They changed colors and lasted a few minutes and then disappeared