Josh Milton
Published December 3, 2025 9:46am
Updated December 3, 2025 9:47am
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The end is neigh, apparently (Picture: North Yorkshire Weather Updates
A bizarre beam of light cut through the skies above the UK earlier today.
One person in Robin Hoods Bay, a village six miles south of Whitby, craned their neck up high and saw the white light at 5.30am.
A man driving through the Ceiriog Valley in north east Wales also saw the light at the same time, as did people in Llay, Wales and Newton, Scotland.
The ghostly streaks were generally visible when looking north east, according to the North Yorkshire Weather Updates.
The Facebook page said: ‘What on earth have we just witnessed in the sky looking north east? Did anybody else see it?’
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The light over the skies of Robin Hoods Bay, appearing to grow weaker the higher it went (Picture: North Yorkshire Weather Updates)
People certainly had their theories about what this sparkling light could be.
Emma Richardson said: ‘The aliens have finally come to save us!’
Alison Staveley-Smith said that ‘Voldemort has unearthed the Elder Wand!’, referring to the Harry Potter character and the powerful magic wand.
While John Moores wrote: ‘Thunder thunder thunder… Thundercats.’
Another said that the light could be Mr Bean, who falls from the sky in a beam of light to choir music in the show’s opening sequence.
Other users suggested it was Batman, the comic book hero famously summoned by the pretty aptly named Bat-Signal.
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Some people suspected it was aliens – or Mr Bean, obviously (Picture: North Yorkshire Weather Updates)
Sadly, however, no UFO is hovering above the earth, waiting to carry you away, nor has the fabric of the universe been torn in two (yes, at least).
Jim NR Dale, a meteorologist with the British Weather Services, told Metro that the beam could be a light pillar.
Ice-containing clouds – normally miles high in the atmosphere – float lower to the surface during the cold nights of winter.
When light from a ground source hits these horizontal floating crystals, they act like mirrors that reflect the light downwards.
Dale said: ‘It wasn’t the coldest of mornings on the surface, but up aloft it would have been around or below freezing and with humidities relatively high, all that’s required is a light source to set things off.
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‘A setting moon might be that light source but it’s far more likely to be from an artificial source, such as a ground-based light pointing up.’
A similar beam of light was spotted last week, towering over Islington, north London.
Rather than a demon shooting light from the depths of the earth, it was nothing more than a laser shown off by the Slovakian company, KVANT.
Police shut down the advertising stunt at the Business Design Centre after the light was seen as far as Cheshunt, some 14 miles away.
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