KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Did you spot beams of light streaming down from the sky early Tuesday morning? Don’t worry—what you saw was real, not a sign of failing eyesight or an alien invasion.

Light pillars can emanate from any light source, such as streetlights, headlights on a car or even the moon. Sun Pillar The ...

Others likened the lights to beams cast from an alien spaceship. Known as “light pillars,” the atmospheric optical phenomenon is caused “when light is refracted by ice crystals,” according ...

Ohio was recently treated to a rare light pillar sighting. They look like beams of light from an alien spaceship, but light pillars are definitely of this world. The name describes a weather ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you saw light pillars shining down from the sky early Tuesday morning in Kansas City, don’t fret. You’re not crazy, you’re eyesight isn’t going, and no, we are not ...

What look like light sabers or giant spotlights shooting straight up in the sky, light pillars are one of the most magnificent optical illusions. Light pillars occur when plate-shaped ice crystals ...