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Amazing 'light pillars' spotted in Metro Detroit neighborhood

South Lyon light pillars. (Donna Brown)

DETROIT – While a meteor apparently flew through the sky Tuesday night, others were seeing another beautiful phenomenon. 

Light pillars were spotted in South Lyon early Wednesday morning, around 4 a.m. Donna Brown, a Local 4 viewer, sent in photos showing the pillars.

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What are light pillars?

Surface lights are being refracted by ice crystals in the air to form those columns of light and, given how cold it was at 4 a.m., there may have been ice crystals in the air.  

Light pillars are very common in Alaska. 


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