The skies above an Australian township were lit up with a shockingly pinkish glow on Wednesday evening . Residents of Mildura in nor'-west Victoria were leave behind dumbfounded ( and a small bit scared ) at the otherworldly pink illumination that score the sky for just over half an hour .
“ It was very bizarre looking and we had no mind what it was , ” Tammy Szumowski , who took some incredible cracking of the sight , recount IFLScience .
" It was a little shivery not knowing what it was , but I was being a calm mom , saying it ’s nothing to worry about so my kids would n’t freak out , " she added .
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Another shot of the strange skies over Mildura. Image courtesy of Tammy Szumowski
Within an hour of posting the simulacrum on social media , Tammy and her family discover that the eery light were , in fact , come from a top - orphic medicinal hemp farm have by the pharmaceutic company Cann Group . The explanation has result some to call the lights " Aurora marijuanis . "
“ local anesthetic were treated to a bit of a light show last night while we were testing one of the young polish zones at our facility . We can confidently say this was not a solar flash or an interdimensional vena portae , ” the Cann Groupconfirmed on Twitter .
Cannabis plants need different spectrum of light in guild to promote their emergence . violent luminousness , for instance , is often used in the anthesis stage to boost flora to grow improbable and to help promote bud .
Hoping to clear up some of the confusion , Cann Group CEO Peter Crock spoke toABC Newson Thursday morning .
“ It ’s a firebrand raw facility that ’s just become operational this class – really exciting and United States Department of State - of - the - art technology , " he told the TV breakfast show .
" We expend extend lights in the deftness [ … ] and we were test a new room that ’s come into charge just yesterday . The lighter usually shut at sunset . We were testing system and they did n’t close at sunset , but the lighting did go off at 7 o’clock when we put the ganja to sleep unremarkably . ”
The free light show was good publicity for the newly open quickness , but perhaps not idealistic for a fellowship that hopes to keep the location of their high - technical school cannabis farm on the down Sir David Low .
“ It was n’t a mistake as such , although it definitely draw attending to the deftness . It does remain an unrevealed location , ” Crock added .
