Not the Northern Lights

/ May 14, 2024

I can’t identify that floating object.

Like many folks who live in North America, my dear wife Karen and I took some time after the sun went down this past weekend to scan the skies above our neighborhood.

Solar storms were bringing the Northern Lights for visibility more south than usual, so said experts way more learned than I. People in Central New York to the north, west and east found glows and colors associated with that cherished phenomona, I found on the Internet the first morning after.

Not here. Too many clouds and ambient light from nearby Syracuse city proper, I guessed.

However …

To the west, over our lake snippet, there loomed an object we’d not noticed before in our near-decade of living in this house.

What the …?

Here’s a blown-up view putting it in the middle of the frame.

Not photo-shopped in any way, I promise. It may be something on land on the far side of the lake, sure. But it sure had us wondering enough to have us look again the next night. And it was still there.

Daylight attempt.

And for those of you who like to play True Detective, I tried to line things up in the daytime, too.

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14 thoughts on “Not the Northern Lights”

  4. we had the lights over us in Berkshire but would you believe it we didn’t see the news or get the email and slept right through them???

    As you live by a lake could that light be a lighthouse… Great photos 💜💜💜

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