15 Stunning Videos of the Pacific Northwest’s Mystery Light Show in the Sky

People in the Pacific Northwest were treated to quite a light show in the sky on Thursday Nox shortly before 9:00 p.m. local clock time , midnight ET . Social media users from Oregon to Canada describe seeing strange lightness , and we have batch of angles from last nighttime ’s display that have been uploaded to YouTube , Twitter , and Facebook .

Was it a meteoroid shower ? Space detritus burn up in the atmosphere ? Could it be aliens in flying saucers finally come to harvest human being for our vitamins ? Despite all the buzz about UFO sighting inrecent years , that last one is , woefully , pretty improbable .

Whatever it was , multitude could n’t believe their optic , as you may hear in the videos below . And while there ’s speculation from astronomers that the light streaking across the sky were pieces of thesecond phase boostersfrom a Falcon 9 rocket that was transport SpaceX Starlink satellite , there ’s still no prescribed word from Elon Musk ’s space company . Musk seems preoccupiedfighting with The Onionright now .