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Light beam seen during Michigan power plant explosion

RJ Wolcott
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Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:29 UTC

Images of light beam over Escanaba Power Plant, Michigan on February 2nd 2015

Many Escanaba residents awoke Monday to find themselves without power after an explosion at a nearby utility plant substation

Around 1:30 a.m. Feb. 2, an explosion at an Escanaba Power Plant substation caused widespread power outages across the city, according to the Escanaba City Electric Department.

With the failure of the substation's main transformer, officials noted the repairs are expected to require a significant amount of labor to fix .

As crews work to repair the damaged electrical equipment, city staff are warning residents to expect rolling blackouts the next few days. Residents are advised to keep their heat at elevated levels, but to conserve energy elsewhere whenever possible.

The Escanaba School District was forced to close today as well, due to a lack of power.

Those affected by the outage are invited to seek shelter at the Escanaba Civic Center, or to visit warming centers at Gladstone's Grace Baptist Church or the nearby Walmart.

At the moment, city crews are working to restore power along the north and south alleys of Ludington Street, as well on the south side of Escanaba. Areas along First Avenue South to Third Avenue North could see a return of power in the next few hours, officials stated.

Comment: So was this just an ordinary explosion, or could there be something more to the story? In Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, Pierre Lescaudron presents the possibility that certain types of buildings or factories can act as attractors for dramatic electrical discharges, whether 'sparked' by incoming comet fragments or atmospheric electrical conditions. So could something similar be responsible for the odd lights seen in the video above? Without more data it will be hard to know for sure.

See also: Was the West Texas explosion a meteorite impact?

Reader Comments

Ragnar · 2015-02-06T05:54:59Z

Interesting that no mention is made of this beam of light. Pretty crazy.

NERPHBULLET · 2015-02-06T06:57:44Z

Space based weapon?

Folks, there are no straight lines in Nature. I suspect that this power plant explosion is a "shot across our bow" by a space based weapon

Snowalker · 2015-02-06T15:52:48Z

This has "particle beam weapon" written all over it. The scenario might go something like this.

1 - Weapons platform is launched and passes systems testing.
2 - Terrestrial target is selected based on location, guarantee of "proper" response from insiders who own the asset being targeted and follow-on effects from target destruction.
3 - Test is carried out.
4 - Media and other sources are monitored to deduce outcomes.

The coming war will not be nuclear.

win 52 · 2015-02-06T06:58:38Z

Going up

They say the light was from the sky. It looks more like the energy was going up from the ground, to something in the sky. Definitely a connection of energy being made. If this is a restoration of balance at a small scale, what would whole scale balance restoration look like?

This world is extremely out of balance. What would it look like if the frequency fence collapsed, when people could see more of the reality of the situation?

inverse · 2015-02-06T07:18:33Z

Looks like water or steam shooting into the sky as it is dispersing at the top.

carefix · 2015-02-06T14:03:15Z

Going up!

One cannot be certain but there is no evidence that the "light beam" is coming down from the sky rather than going up which seems more likely as 1) we have an energy source on the ground 2) it appears to widen slightly (and weaken) in the sky. None of this however explains the cause. If it is a light beam rather than say some kind of electrical discharge giving off light then it would require a directional source. This would likely be either some kind of condensing optics (extremely unlikely) or an optical cavity (very unlikely). The latter could perhaps arise from an explosion creating a deep hole in something and it being white hot. This is very speculative. Maybe some limited ionization of steam/smoke from the explosion produced a conductive path for electrical discharge between the clouds and the ground - but unlikely due to the narrowness of the beam and its long duration (relative to a lightening strike). Most odd. Maybe there was a spotlight there that got switched on whilst pointing upwards? I am grasping at straws on this...

griffin · 2015-02-06T14:18:18Z

Transformer breached

The article reports that the explosion was the result of "the failure of the substation's main transformer".

If the explosion breached the top shell of that large transformer while it was still connected to the power grid, internal high-voltage arcing that occurred as the unit destroyed itself would have been extremely bright, projecting a brilliant shaft of light straight up into the sky, as observed.

In that case, no meteor strike or cosmic electrical connection is required to explain the beam of bright light that was seen and photographed here.

glardu · 2015-02-06T14:19:43Z

Your surrender was refused. Lol!

Honestly, I have seen this many times freezing my nuts offf working in AB winters. Light and moisture in the air is all. Note how it thins out at top vs brighter at bottom. Any form off energy weapon wouldnt dissapate so much going through mere clouds.

Kathy · 2015-02-06T16:13:09Z

WTF?

That's crazy! I don't like the looks of that! I live less than ten miles from a nuclear power plant on Lake Ontario, and that leaves me even more unsettled than I was before!

richsw · 2015-02-06T22:02:59Z

Re: Going Up

This is definitely an electrical beam of some sort, and not a laser beam. coming from above. Someone mentioned in the comments that there are no straight lines in nature. If one looks at pictures of comets one will notice a very straight electron beam going directly at the Sun as the comet discharges the electrical capacitor of the Solar System. That is definitely "in nature".

The electricity in Earth's atmosphere has been increasing the last several years for a couple of reasons. There has been a large increase of cometary dust hitting our planet as we swing through the orbits of past comets which have now pretty much broken up into small pieces and dust. There is also the influence of our Twin Sun somewhere out near the edge of our Solar System 'grounding' the flow of energies from the Sun. During the time of this transformer explosion there was a straight line alignment of Mercury, Earth and Jupiter which greatly aided and assisted the energy flow between these planets from the Sun. The combination of all these things can cause some powerful effects.

Because storms on Earth are mainly energized and created by electricity from the ionosphere-which is energized by direct connections for electric energy from the Sun, we have had a large increase in violent storms of all types for the last few years because of this enhanced electricity in our atmosphere. And, this electricity has to go somewhere!

Since electric charges always seek the weakest path to ground it very well could be that there was just the right path over the area of the power transformer, which tends to ionize and electrify the air around any such installation.

For much more information on this subject, read "Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection" by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight Jadczyk.

win 52 · 2015-02-06T23:50:53Z

Still

When something goes down, there is always something rising to meet it. It may be imperceptible in most cases, but something like electricity may act differently than solid matter.

Niall · 2015-02-10T12:16:02Z

No straight lines in Nature?

Check out 'Crepuscular rays', 'Sun pillars', and 'Light pillars'. It IS interesting, but only insofaras the composition of the atmosphere has changed in recent decades.

Some are blaming the Ruskies! [Link]

The pillars of light can be explained. What'd be freaking me out is all these transformers exploding because the grid can't take the surge running through the solar system.