On Wednesday evening, a pink glow lit up the sky above the Australian town of Mildura, confusing town residents. Some thought it was an alien invasion, and others thought it was some sort of out-of-place Northern Lights or a solar flare.
Mildura resident Tammy Szumowski thought the world was ending. She said, “It is very bizarre, this huge pink light in the sky, I’m trying not to freak out because I’ve got my girls in the car.” She was one of the many people who saw the glow. Anne Webster is a lawmaker who represents the area near Mildura in the Australian Parliament: “I thought, that is very strange. My first thought was, there has to be a logical reason for this.”
The pink glow was radiating from a medical cannabis facility on the outskirts of the town. The facility accidentally revealed its location while testing out LED lights which reflected off the clouds in the sky to make an eerie glow that surprised and frightened the town. When a facility security guard searched for the source of the pink glow, he realized the glow was attracting attention around the town of Mildura, which is about 340 miles northwest of Melbourne, a large Australian city. In 2016, Australia made growing and studying medical cannabis legal. Cann Group is a cannabis research and production company that was using the facility. Peter Crock is a chief executive of Cann Group, and he said that the guard “went out on the evening and noticed a glow and he noticed a few vehicles pulling up to see where it was coming from.”
The company uses blackout curtains to hide the LED lights inside the building that grows marijuana. However, on Wednesday, a curtain was left open, proclaiming the location of the facility to all.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/23/australia-mildura-medical-marijuana-pink-sky/
Mildura resident Tammy Szumowski thought the world was ending. She said, “It is very bizarre, this huge pink light in the sky, I’m trying not to freak out because I’ve got my girls in the car.” She was one of the many people who saw the glow. Anne Webster is a lawmaker who represents the area near Mildura in the Australian Parliament: “I thought, that is very strange. My first thought was, there has to be a logical reason for this.”
The pink glow was radiating from a medical cannabis facility on the outskirts of the town. The facility accidentally revealed its location while testing out LED lights which reflected off the clouds in the sky to make an eerie glow that surprised and frightened the town. When a facility security guard searched for the source of the pink glow, he realized the glow was attracting attention around the town of Mildura, which is about 340 miles northwest of Melbourne, a large Australian city. In 2016, Australia made growing and studying medical cannabis legal. Cann Group is a cannabis research and production company that was using the facility. Peter Crock is a chief executive of Cann Group, and he said that the guard “went out on the evening and noticed a glow and he noticed a few vehicles pulling up to see where it was coming from.”
The company uses blackout curtains to hide the LED lights inside the building that grows marijuana. However, on Wednesday, a curtain was left open, proclaiming the location of the facility to all.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/23/australia-mildura-medical-marijuana-pink-sky/
