Mystery of the Blue Sky Glow in Queens, NY

Photo date: May 4, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The two photos below show a mysterious blue glow in the sky that I photographed at about 9:15 PM last night.  I live in the Queens borough of New York City.

On December 26, 2015 a photographer photographed a similar blue light in the night sky in Queens, NY, as shown here.  (Since all of the photos on this site are entirely authentic, you should never be surprised to learn about other photographers confirming what is shown on this site.)  When you look at some of the comments on that video, some people are suggesting that the light may have come from the New York Hall of Science.

But on this night the New York Hall of Science had closed three hours before my photo, at 6 PM. I rather doubt that this museum was blasting out great amounts of blue light three hours after its closing. When I passed by that museum after hours last summer, I saw it giving off little light. The glow I photographed on May 4, 2016 was also presumably not from Citi Field, since on this day the Mets had played a day game at 1:00 PM, not a night game.

While the location of the light shown above is consistent with the idea that the New York Hall of Science was causing the event, another photo I took is inconsistent with such a hypothesis.

Below are photos I took on March 24, 2016, facing east (at a location east of the New York Hall of Science), as reported here. The New York Hall of Science was in the opposite direction, to the west. But the photos still show a blue sky glow and also a green sky glow.

Moreover, the photo here I took here of a blue sky glow shows it to the right of a column, but if it had been coming from the New York Hall of Science, it should have been to the far left of that column.

Keep reading this blog for more on this fascinating mystery.