KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Did you spot beams of light streaming down from the sky early Tuesday morning? Don’t worry—what you saw was real, not a sign of failing eyesight or an alien invasion.

A natural phenomenon has been spotted across West Michigan as arctic air funnels through the area-- light pillars. Light pillars are a unique weather phenomenon that occurs on cold, calm nights in ...

You might suspect alien spaceships, but light pillars are of this world. When a blast of cold weather comes down from the Arctic, flat ice crystals form in the air and hang there like pixie dust.