New York power plant explosion turns sky neon blue and forces LaGuardia airport to ground flights

Flights are temporarily grounded at LaGuardia airport after transformers exploded at a Con Edison power plant just a mile from Manhattan

A transformer explosion at a New York City power plant turned the night sky an eerie blue hue for several minutes and shut down nearby LaGuardia Airport - as scores of fire trucks and police cars scrambled to the scene.

It happened at about 9.20pm, causing the night sky over the Con Edison power plant in Astoria, Queens to light up. Hundreds of people were seen running into the streets, which were bathed in a near-daylight glow.

One local, Lucas Espinoza, 28, said: "The whole sky lit up with a pulsating greenish-blue light. I'll admit that seeing the sky light up like that at night - in New York City of all places - puts a bad feeling in your gut."

Nearby LaGuardia airport was temporarily closed as a result of power disruption, while Mayor Bill de Blasio's spokesman tweeted that “scattered” power outages have been reported elsewhere.

Before the cause of the glow emerged, thousands posted on Twitter trying to discover what was going on - many joked that they thought it was an alien invasion.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-explosion-blue-sky-power-plant-laguardia-airport-queens-astoria-a8701401.html
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