Friday, July 16, 2010

'Rain of luminous beams' appears in the sky of Xiamen Huandao Road

Dozens of vertical luminous beams appeared in the night sky of Xiamen about 11:30pm last Friday, reports Southeast Express.

The singular sight, which lasted for nearly one hour, was first discovered by Mr. Wang's friend, a resident in Huangcuo, near Xiamen’s famous Huandao Road.

According to Mr. Wang, his friend first saw several luminous beams in the sky and then told them to go outside and take a look. They were stunned by the sight before their eyes.

“At first, there were only five of them, hanging very low in the sky, but after a short while, the number increased to about 50, and they were higher and higher, just like a stave hanging in the sky,” Mr. Wang said.

The Xiamen meteorological observatory said no such astronomical phenomenon was monitored by the observatory. “But it was not a meteor shower,” a staff member said.

via 'Rain of luminous beams' appears in the sky of Xiamen Huandao Road - What's On Xiamen.

I suspect this is related to the upper atmosphere collapsing. The entire solar system is passing through something, or the sun is weakening and is failing to shield us. I'm going to dig out my old Geiger counter, the Rad Alert 50 and listen to what's going on.  Got a cave?

3 comments:

Ann said...

Is this a photo, a photo artistically amplified, or an artist's recreation? The phenomenon may be just the sun rays passing through the clouds, plus a lot of atmospheric pollution, a problem China now has more than ever before. -Just an idea.

Ann said...

On second thought, something is going on in China. For one, the country is the midst of a UFO flap. There's so many sightings of UFOs that an airport had to shut down for a few hours, because of them. (Source: UPI, UFOs in China cause flight delays, July 17, 2010)

Christian Science Monitor has a couple of articles and a video on the subject.

UFO over Chinese airport [VIDEO]
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Discoveries/2010/0716/UFO-over-Chinese-airport-VIDEO

China UFO spotted again. Why skepticism is warranted.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0716/China-UFO-spotted-again.-Why-skepticism-is-warranted

Ann said...

There's some nice photos of the UFO at the China airport here (although the site is in Chinese):

http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/201007/news-gb2312-1123258.html