Jan 22 2009Strange Lights In The Sky Can Only Mean One Of Two Things: The Aliens Are Coming Or Some Boring Natural Phenomenon
It's a well-known scientific fact that aliens have a light fetish. So these columns of light seen above the town of Sigulda, Latvia can only mean one thing: they're here. Needless to say, there's a cover-up in effect.
But experts are agreed there may be a more prosaic explanation - ice crystals in the air.
The air above the town was notably cold and filled with suspended ice crystals.It is believed that the columns were formed by those reflecting light from the bright streetlamps and other lights on the ground - beaming it back downwards again.
Yeah, no. Aliens, bitches, they're coming. Now I'd hate to start a bunch of fearmongering without doing something to help, so I'll cut straight to the chase: I'm selling tin-foil hats and butthole tape on eBay.
Hit the jump for several more pictures of the mysterious alien beams.
Beam me up: Scientists left baffled as mysterious columns of coloured light appear in the night skies [dailymail]
Thanks to joe, who actually wants to be beamed up because he saw Total Recall and actually thinks alien chicks have three tits.
Reader Comments
1. Gizmoduck - January 22, 2009 10:53 AM
FIRST
and thats pretty awesome.
BOOSH
2. Ted - January 22, 2009 10:53 AM
Ha, the last line was brilliant.
f*** you firsting bitchszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzaaa
3. StlDragoon - January 22, 2009 10:53 AM
FIRST!!!! HAHAHAHAH
4. StlDragoon - January 22, 2009 10:55 AM
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Alex - January 22, 2009 10:58 AM
This is clearly someone using the portal gun posted yesterday, one blue column and the other orange... but who... Geekologie writer? I say yes, but WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!! Now i know you live in segulda, i'm coming for you...
6. Moose Knuckle - January 22, 2009 11:05 AM
<---furiously clenching my anus...
7. Joker - January 22, 2009 11:10 AM
i need 20 boxes of your best butthole tape stat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Tim - January 22, 2009 11:12 AM
This happens often in winter in Winnipeg. You'd be amazed.
9. LSDiesel - January 22, 2009 11:15 AM
Skygasm
10. Gizmoduck - January 22, 2009 11:18 AM
@6
is you're butt hole itchy?
might need to wipe again.
11. Thumperchica - January 22, 2009 11:43 AM
This is gorgeous!
BTW GW - I think I may need the butthole tape to protect myself from an anally obsessed commenter... HELP
12. Dr.Known - January 22, 2009 11:50 AM
That is somethin. I have some medicine that makes a lot of things look like this and LSDiesel has the proof
Yeah #6 wipe again, that itching means you missed a crevasse
13. Daisy - January 22, 2009 11:50 AM
FAKE!!
This is exactly like the part in Never Back Down where, uh. . . oh my f***ing god I think it's REAL!
14. Moose Knuckle - January 22, 2009 11:55 AM
@10 thank you for your heartfelt concern over my butthole, i'm truly touched, you know, down there...
On a side note, is it possible to clench your anus without clenching you butt cheeks?
15. Thumperchica - January 22, 2009 11:57 AM
14 - Damnit, now I'm going to spend the day trying to clench my anus w/o clenching my butt cheeks... thanks a lot.
16. Daisy - January 22, 2009 12:04 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max and BAja went to a Greatful Dead concert and really saw fire on the mountain.
17. softlicious - January 22, 2009 12:07 PM
Lol Daisy is right this time, finally Daisy is right it actually is a fake!
18. Netserk - January 22, 2009 12:07 PM
Could we get a link to your auction of tin-foil hat and butthole tape? It seems a lot of commenters are eager to buy.
19. Pew³ - January 22, 2009 12:11 PM
@14 &15. It's totally possible. I'm doing it right now. That's why I only have to go #2 once a week.
But, oh what a hell of an hour it is. I save it for Sunday mornings.
20. Hannukah Montana - January 22, 2009 12:16 PM
Face it!
This is a complete "cosmojob." You can tell its alien because the light is so bright I think I'm gonna make love to it now.
This is exactly like the scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where Roy was blasted with a strong beam of light and suddenly fell in love with the aliens and made love to them and cut his dick of with laser guns.
21. BK - January 22, 2009 12:16 PM
I saw this happen the other day on my way to work. At first I thought it was just my eyes playing tricks on me because of the whiskey and THC and klonopin and adderall still in my system, but they were REAL! You should have saw the ones coming from my headlights. It was like that scene in Tremors when that station wagon gets pulled under ground. Only my car was stuck in a ditch.
Glorious!
22. Dr.Known - January 22, 2009 12:18 PM
I didn't think I'd see the day when H.M would do a Daisy mock up like so many of you have, but there it is
NEVERBACKDOWN
23. softlicious - January 22, 2009 12:35 PM
f***! That must be it! I finally figured out why aliens are comming to earth, they want to visit my site:
http://www.softlicious.110mb.com/
No, just kiding, the real reason aliens are comming here is to work in Burger King and to clean places, you know all thoose shitty jobs no one else wants. GW aliens comming is no news, I've seen them jump the border.
24. Elmo - January 22, 2009 12:46 PM
Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming!
he's an alien too, you know....
25. Tony Huynh - January 22, 2009 12:57 PM
You pay the price for pretty lights, by having to live in the frozen north.
26. cosmic death rays - January 22, 2009 1:15 PM
This is the beginning of the end. Just a couple warning shots before the aliens start ass-raping anything they can find. Don't leave your pets outside. You know they like cows. The ones with the holes in their stomachs for "research" are their favorite. It's 3 years ago last week that one of those intergalactic bastards ass raped a squirrel in the park right down the road. The squirrel gave birth to some sort of grey colored babies that glowed in the dark and could teleport from one tree to the next.
27. Smartass - January 22, 2009 1:16 PM
Oh Come on. Seriously. This phenomenon happens all the time below -20C. The confused scientists have never been anywhere cold before. It always amazes me when stuff that's as common as shit for thousands of people is a "mystery".
28. people who say first are retarded - January 22, 2009 1:40 PM
who gives a f*** if you saw it first its a good article you should talk about that
29. Angel Mass - January 22, 2009 1:44 PM
Okay people you can go now, there is nothing to see here. What happen wasent an Alien abduction... swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
30. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 22, 2009 3:25 PM
You know what's at the base of that blue beam of light?
My junk.
31. Peregrinus - January 22, 2009 3:32 PM
Is this just a side effect from a long exposure time? 'Cause the trees in the pictures are fairly well defined/lit for a night shot.
32. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 22, 2009 3:43 PM
@31: Noooo, you have to do more than look at the pretty pictures, you have to read too.
33. Virginia - January 22, 2009 8:39 PM
I live in Michigan and it gets real cold here. I see those all the time. They are crazy. They go up so high into the air. But, yes, it is from ice crystals. I see them about once a week.
34. jj - January 22, 2009 9:36 PM
@27 and 33, where I live its cold half the year. In fact schools here don't even close unless its below -25. Never seen anything remotely like this. I bet you are the same person posting under different names, from the government, trying to do damage control. eat shit.
This is most likely the result of HAARP ionizing the stratosphere. Now THAT might create the kind of reaction you see here. HAARP can alter the perceptual states of a population over a wide area. Now you know why there was no revolution the past 8 years.
35. c45 - January 22, 2009 10:26 PM
hmm... this is odd.. just today i saw something that looked like this. i was like, wTF!? i never seen something like that before.. and now here it is on geekologie.. and i live in SoCal...
36. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 22, 2009 10:34 PM
@34: Wow, paranoid much?
There are no government conspiracies, only paranoid idiots like you who think there are. If something like a new aircraft is being tested out at Area 51, it's not a conspiracy that the Air Force is keeping secrets, it's because the Air Force IS keeping secrets...it's f***ing CLASSIFIED!
Oh, and HAARP is in Alaska, not Latvia. The effect that the ionization HAARP produces is weak and only seen using very sensitive cameras. You, Sir or Ma'am, are a paranoid idiot.
37. Saps, Xo - January 23, 2009 6:23 AM
Strangest thing, about a month ago my friends and I saw some of the exact same things all across our city. Brampton. Crap town. Stephen Colbert has mocked us... seriously. We're near Toronto... Canada.
They shot up, white lights, about 10 in total, all spanned out across the city. We figured it had something to do with the fog we had been having or something. Needless to say, it was weird, and I was STUNNED when I saw this!! =|
Peace+Love, xo
38. softlicious - January 23, 2009 9:39 AM
Stop the stupid theories, this is not a weather phenomenon, it's the aliens who are comming here from Mexico. They use flashlights in order to see their steps in the dark desert night, and if a flashlight is directed up towards the sky it makes a sign like that in the picture.
39. Kevlar - January 23, 2009 11:21 AM
I live in ND and we get these a lot as well. They are called light pillars, yes a technical term. It is the same phenomenon that creates halos around the sun or Sun dogs on the sides of the sun.
40. Nicole Green - January 23, 2009 11:53 AM
When the little green men do land, sell them the air guitar strings.
41. Mike - January 25, 2009 2:29 PM
Errr, you guys never heard of ice columns?
lookee here:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/lpil.htm
42. matthew - June 11, 2009 6:34 AM
im gonna have sex with the aliens and mae a new breed haha
43. evelrn - September 18, 2009 11:35 PM
31 minuets ago today at 8:03 pm the whole sky at night lited up from white to electric blue it was so weird yet awesome