A pulsing bright blue light illuminating the sky across Queens, New York on Thursday night had everyone thinking one thing.
But before you even start, it’s not aliens.
Awestruck folks shared footage on Twitter of the strangely glimmering turquoise light, each equally as baffled as the other.
Similar to the 2015 freak-out of Los Angeles, when a ‘blue light’ streaked across the night sky, folks on Twitter declared it one of two things: aliens or something worth calling Ghostbusters for.
The sky over NYC was just blue and flashing for like, 5 minutes. And right before it happened all the lights in my apartment flashed. Is it… aliens?? pic.twitter.com/s09cVpbx02
— Aliza (Ah-lee-zuh not Eliza) (@AlizaTweets) December 28, 2018
Instead of proof that extraterrestrials live among us and the People in Black are the galaxy defenders you always suspected, the glimmering light was reportedly derived from a transformer explosion at a Con Edison power facility in Astoria, according to the New York City Police Department.
Police said the fire was “under control,” as confirmed in a tweet, and the 144th precinct asked citizens to avoid 20th Avenue and 31st Street. NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan confirmed no injuries were sustained in the explosion.
The New York City Fire Department also tweeted confirmation that it was investigating a transformer incident at Con Edison’s Queens facility.
#FDNY is investigating a transformer incident in Queens at a @ConEdison location. The Department has received numerous calls for reports of explosions in the Long Island City and Astoria areas.
— FDNY (@FDNY) December 28, 2018
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson also noted on Twitter that New York’s LaGuardia airport was “temporarily closed due to power outage resulting from the ConEd transformer explosion,” but was soon back up and running.
Con Edison confirmed on Twitter it was working with the FDNY to respond to the fire, promising more information up ahead. We’ll update this story as we learn more.
We’re working with the @FDNY to respond a substation fire in Astoria and will provide updates as soon as we have more information. AQ
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) December 28, 2018
So, there you go, the light was caused by a transformer explosion. It’s definitely not aliens. It’s never aliens. But then again…
That’s exactly the type of explanation I’d expect to read if there was an alien invasion!
— 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 (@ncbjd) December 28, 2018
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