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01-13-2017, 12:00 AM
Mysterious light pillars light up Canada's night sky
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At 1:30 in the morning, while most of Ontario, Canada was asleep, Timothy Joseph Elzinga was tending to his crying toddler. Then he looked out the bathroom window.*
"I saw beams of light, looking like something out of Star Trek or Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Elzinga told Mashable on Thursday, nearly a week after he witnessed the so-called light pillars (https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glossary/term/lumi**us-pillars).
SEE ALSO: Frozen Michigan lighthouse is straight out of Narnia (http://mashable.com/2016/12/18/frozen-michigan-lighthouse/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The vertical columns of red, blue, orange and white appear when light reflects off the flat, mirror-like surfaces of ice crystals. Light pillars are typically seen in polar regions but can appear at lower latitudes in frigid temperatures.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/canada-light-pillars-phe**me**n/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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At 1:30 in the morning, while most of Ontario, Canada was asleep, Timothy Joseph Elzinga was tending to his crying toddler. Then he looked out the bathroom window.*
"I saw beams of light, looking like something out of Star Trek or Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Elzinga told Mashable on Thursday, nearly a week after he witnessed the so-called light pillars (https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glossary/term/lumi**us-pillars).
SEE ALSO: Frozen Michigan lighthouse is straight out of Narnia (http://mashable.com/2016/12/18/frozen-michigan-lighthouse/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The vertical columns of red, blue, orange and white appear when light reflects off the flat, mirror-like surfaces of ice crystals. Light pillars are typically seen in polar regions but can appear at lower latitudes in frigid temperatures.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/canada-light-pillars-phe**me**n/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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