Evening sky over new York suddenly became bright blue

On the evening of 27 December (in Moscow it was already night 28 December) in the sky over new York suddenly there was a flash of bright blue. Residents thought was that the Earth (finally!) the aliens came, but the real reason was more prosaic. The glow caused a transformer explosion at the facility, the energy company Consolidated Edison in new York's borough of Queens.

After the explosion there was a fire that was quickly extinguished. However, because of an accident in the area of power outage. In particular, no light for about half an hour left the LaGuardia airport located in Northern Queens, and the prison complex on Rikers island, which contains about 10 thousand prisoners. What caused the transformer explosion remains unknown; it is assumedthat in the usual case of a hardware malfunction.

"No injuries, no fire, no sign of extraterrestrial activity," reassured the people of new York city police.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»