A mysterious glowing pink sky illuminating a small Australian town has been depicted in several intriguing social media posts.
The ethereal rose-colored haze that covered Mildura, in northwest Victoria, on Tuesday night put its residents on high alert and even scared them a little.
Tammy Szumowski, a resident of Mildura, told Daily Mail Australia that her mother called to inquire about the strange pink light in the sky.
Later, after the blinds on a growing shed were left open, it was discovered that it was coming from a nearby local medicinal cannabis farm.
Szumowski claimed that she hopped in the car with her husband and children and drove to her uncles' residence at Merbein South, where the light was bright, to visit them.
She continued by saying they had no idea what it was and that it had a very strange appearance.
Social Media Fuss
Szumowski immediately shared the breathtaking images on Facebook to see if his friends and neighbors knew anything.
Szumowski urged her followers to take these pictures at Merbein South in her post. She also enquired as to whether anyone knew what it is. She jokingly lobbied references to Stranger Things and the television show Aliens.
Her friends were equally perplexed, and some of them appeared to be scared. Many people have commented on whether the image is an asteroid, comet, or the upside-down world from Stranger Things, she claimed.
One person hypothesized that it might be a radiation beam intended to start reducing Covid's effects.
Another woman commented that it is so bizarre to see while debating whether to don her tin foil hat.
The aliens, according to her sister-in-joke, law's were meant to pick her up in Wangaratta but they got her address wrong.
However, her father was unimpressed by the fuss. Szumowski claimed that when she called her mother after stopping the car at her uncle's house and getting out to take pictures, her father had advised him to finish his dinner quickly because the world was ending.
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The Low Down
The real explanation for the pink sky, however, had nothing to do with extraterrestrial beings or any astronomical phenomenon.
It was discovered that the amazing glow was coming from strong lights at a manufacturing facility for medical marijuana.
Curtains inside a commercial cultivation shed had been left open, according to medical marijuana farm owner Cann Pharmaceutical company.
In June, Cann harvested its first crop, and it recently received a new license to make Satipharm capsules from medical cannabis.
Satipharm is a business that develops and produces cannabis-based products that contain cannabinoids for use in medicine, health, and wellness. Delivering the best formulations and products possible-made especially with the needs of each patient and client in mind-is their main priority.
Commercial cannabis grow lights are calibrated in photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), and can sometimes reach 2000 PPFD. LED lighting for cannabis growing is frequently purple or pink, The Daily mail Australia reports.
2000 PPFD is about the same PPFD of the sun on a cloudless day, as one light manufacturer claims.
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