We live way up north. Every night in the winter, I point our camera due north and up towards the sky to capture northern lights. But every now and then, it also captures these weird moving shafts o...

We live way up north. Every night in the winter, I point our camera due north and up towards the sky to capture northern lights.

But every now and then, it also captures these weird moving shafts of light shooting up from the ground.

They’re clearly artificial, they’re either bright cold blue or dim yellow, and UFO don’t exist 🙂 So most likely they’re from headlights. And most likely those headlights belong to cars passing on the highway that’s not visible in the video, that runs northeastward 3 or 4 miles behind the houses in the video.

But headlights aren’t searchlights: they don’t point up. And those light shafts don’t happen often: when they do, the weather tends to be quite cold and usually there are light clouds low in the sky. So I assume some atmospheric phenomenon creates them, but I have no idea which.

If you know what phenomenon this is, I’d be curious to learn more.