http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPY5JX7p1zc
Youtube link showing the square building by the rainbow bridge making a light pillar way up in the sky.
This text is from the ATS forum, explaining the phenomenon further. Someone asked about the light being blocked in some videos, so I gave an answer.
"As I was reminded, from talking to that physics professor, light being refracted (as in redirected mid air so you can see it) Means there's something there for it to refract off of.
That means that light pillars are in fact synonymous with blocking light. All light pillars have a maximum lenght. The longer they are, the less "stuff" is in the way to block them. The shorter they are, the brighter they'll be, because there's more stuff in the way. This stuff being water particles and crystals in the case of light pillars.
The professor explained (something I already knew) that the beams from the searchlights wouldn't even be visible if they were being shot in space (in a vacuum). The only reason they're visible down here on earth is because they're constantly hitting little bits of particles in the air, refracting the light (meaning spreading the light that was originally "straight", coming from the searchlights, into all direction so it's visible from all angles).
With a normal light pillar phenomenon (which are rare) you have a high concentration of flat and hexagonal ice particles in the air, forming millions of tiny mirrors which "choose" to reflect the nearest light source (usually from the ground) and spread them in a patter which forms the light pillars in the sky.
In Niagara Falls however, you don't have as high a concentration, and the particles seem to form way up in the sky, or as low as 800m as one of my calculations showed. This makes it almost impossible for ordinary street lights, that flood the streets of Niagara Falls, to react with them. They're just too weak and the crystals too high up. However, Niagara Falls have all these powerful lights that are being directed upwards. Those are strong enough to penetrate several kilometers into the air. There are some on the square building. There's the searchlights and there's the upwards pointing lights on the hotels and on the casino south of Skylon Tower.
So you see, it's perfectly reasonable for this to be a light pillar phenomenon of sorts. I don't know the exact physics behind the summer sighting(s?), but everything else is explained by it.
At this point there's just so little "mystery" left to it. The angles have been explained too. They're actually all straight, it's an illusion that they form a triangle.
Look at this Star Wars video for reference.
(Video removed, see images below)
At 0:35 they jump to "lightspeed" (you see it in the preview even). The effect from the stars can be compared to the effect of light pillars seen from below. The stars lights are actually all straight, but they appear in different configurations because they're elongated.
The flash of light only appears when the searchlights are being pointed straight up, because there's no light for the light pillar phenomenon to gather (react to) when they're not pointed straight up. The only "weird" thing left is that a very weak version of the phenomenon, that apparently is only visible with a military grade night vision camera, is apparent during the summer. And I'm willing to "chalk that up to the heat", or humidity in this case. It's not too far fetched to think that weak light pillar like phenomenons can appear without ice crystals in high humidity areas."
Another post explaining it even further:
"Here's a picture for comparison. This is a screenshot from the first video (of the phenomenon).
And here's an edited star wars image. I've only Removed stuff from the image. I haven't changed anything around. Only used a black marker to blot out parts of the image.
Similar, no?"
And a Third post explaining the light configuration.
"Here's the ultimate proof. Best one I could think of. 3 pictures, explaining why it pretty much has to be a light pillar phenomenon.
First a map with the 3 brightest lights in downtown Niagara Falls painted in red. The square building by the rainbow bridge (right), the searchlights (middle) and the very lit up ferris wheel (left).
Then an image I took with my very light sensitive camera as I was pointing it south(ish), standing on clifton hill, just by the spotlights. The blue circles circling the 3 light spots seen from the ground.
And a third image with the second one superimposed onto the first one, reverted horizontally to fit the map (original picture was view from below, this is view from above, so you need to flip the image). I adjusted the angle slightly and voila, perfect match. You can tell the red dots go precisely into the blue circles.
Case closed, basically."
And I have even more if someone out there is still unconvinced. Like, if you look at some of the videos, the angles of the lights point directly at these 3 locations. The video from outside nightmares, the Antigravity skate shop video, every single one show a (version of the) light pillar phenomenon, not a UFO.
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