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Wild Gender Reveal? Alien Invasion? The Night Sky Turned Crazy Blue — and New Yorkers Have Jokes About It

A Con Edison spokesman called the transformer fire an "abnormal event" and said, "It did create a spectacular effect on the sky, and certainly caused a lot of concern"

Electric utility Con Edison was working Friday to figure out what caused a high-voltage equipment failure that unleashed an otherworldly flash of bright blue light in the night sky over New York City. Tracie Strahan reports.

What to Know

  • An electric flash at a Con Ed power station in Queens caused scattered power outages and sent a spectacular light across the city skyline
  • No injuries were reported
  • The lights caused a stir on social media as several witnesses posted photographs and videos of a bright, blue flash that filled the sky

Gender reveal party gone wrong? Alien invasion? Optimus Prime vs. Megatron?

It was an electric blast, people, that sent a crazy blue light flooding the nighttime sky in Queens, briefly making it look like daytime in some neighborhoods. No one was hurt, but the illumination was certainly out of this world -- and New Yorkers have jokes about it.

See some of the Twitter chatter below and get the full story here (including some pretty incredible photos).

Rich Villodas
Bright blue light over Queens, New York.
Andres Rios
NBC
Roni Mazumdar
A New Jersey resident across the Hudson River captured this photo of the New York City skyline illuminated blue Thursday night.
Zach Laks
The sky over a neighborhood in Astoria, Queens lit up so bright that it briefly appeared to be daytime before turning blue.
Dahlila Crespo
@Vafata
Jareen Imam
This image captured from the Upper West Side, facing northwest, shows a blue sky over New York City.
NBC
@Sightofmysights
Sky over East Harlem.
@masonmccoy
The electric flash knocked out power at LaGuardia Airport, grounding flights for several hours.
Christopher Knight
Alice Jung
NYC's sky seen from New Jersey.
Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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