Dominic Taylor-
Photographs of light pillars resembling Ufos attempting to beam humans up to their spacecrafts were captured in the skies of America.
Ufos are unidentified flying objects, believed to signal aliens making their presence known on earth during certain events, or even weather conditions.
According to the U.S National Weather Service, La Crosse Wisconsin, these light pillars normally occur during cold, calm winter mornings, when temperatures dip below 10°F (-12°C).
On such mornings, plate-shaped ice crystals – usually found floating in clouds high up in the air – are close enough to the ground to create horizontal facets that reflect light downwards.
Meteorologist Bill Taylor told CNN : “It was almost like I was looking at the northern lights because they were bouncing, moving and changing in appearance,” National Weather Service
Sharing photographs taken by a meteorologist in West Salem, a Facebook post by the US National Weather Service (NWS), La Crosse Wisconsin, read:
The pillars were a collection of light beams from all the millions of crystals reflecting directly at any eyes consciously beholding them.
According to a tweet from the NWS, light pillars are created from reflective light sources ‘such as: street lights, the moon or the sun’, acting like a large mirror in the sky. In order for this spectacle to occur, weather conditions will need to be wind-free and stable as well as quite cold.
The pillars are said to be approximately half way between a person’s eye and the light source . Light pillars are more common in the fall and winter, when temperatures are cold enough to form ice in the atmosphere.
“Latest model guidance continues to show that an arctic air mass will dominate the northern and central portions of the country into this weekend under the influence of a slow-moving polar vortex centered over the Canadian prairies,” the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) said.