Attention turned away as quickly as it was captured, but that strange liminal moment, in which both disaster and wonder seemed equally likely, showcased an even stranger reaction: a collective shrug. Coupled with these theories was the sentiment that at the end of a year marked by tumultuous national political events, abuse of power fully on display in every corner of society, and the knowledge of imminent climate catastrophe, would an extraterrestrial onslaught really be that outlandish? Even mainstream news anchors commented on the nonchalant attitude on display, as shown in a tweet by MSNBC’s Katy Tur: “Folks on Twitter reacting without surprise to the prospect of an alien invasion in NYC is peak 2018.”Īfter only a few minutes, the sky went dark, as if someone had flipped a light-switch on the world, and reports started trickling in that the source of the bright colorful aura was actually a transformer explosion at a nearby Con Edison power plant (it was later confirmed that it was even less-serious “electrical fault”). Instagram and Snapchat stories taken from all different parts of the city came pouring out, as did darkly comic speculations on Twitter about the possibilities of apocalypse, nuclear war and, of course, alien invasion. FIRE IN THE SKY WINDOWSPeople stood in the streets and looked out their windows at the strange glowing light, wondering (and possibly panicking) about the source, and unsurprisingly, many pulled out their phones. On December 27, 2018, for about three whole minutes, the dark New York City skyline flashed an eerie aqua blue.
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