LOCALS were left completely baffled after huge beams of light were spotted from miles away.
The huge rays filled the skies last night leaving residents in Fife joking that aliens had invaded.
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A picture uploaded to social media showed the multiple beams shooting into the sky, like something from a sci-fi film.
Locals in Fife crackled jokes about extraterrestrials coming to visit after spotting the sight over Edinburgh.
It was posted to local page Fife Jammer Locations with the caption: “Aliens.”
Many posted their humourous responses underneath the image uploaded to Facebook.
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One person wrote: “Calling in the mothership.”
Another said: “Beam me up Scotty!”
A third poked fun with another Star Trek reference saying: “Where’s Captain Kirk?”
A fourth commented: “A UFO has flipped and is on its roof.”
One good-humoured user made reference to Chewin’ The Fat sketch Taysiders In Space, saying: “It’s like hee haw we’ve seen afore Captain”
Although others saw the funny side and decided to join in with their own patter.
One said: “That’s just me with my new laser pen from Temu.”
Another tagged a pal and wrote: “Is that you out with your new torch?”
Although one person had some serious concerns about the lights.
They replied: “I think it’s brilliant but I’m just very curious about the airspace for planes landing and taking off nearby?”
Scots could be set for ‘once in a decade’ Northern Lights display in the New Year
BY ZOE PHILLIPS
SCOTS stargazers could be set for a “once in a decade” Northern Lights display in the New Year.
NASA says our sun is at its solar maximum and boffins have predicted that we can expect to see more of the celestial spectacle with activity at its highest in the last decade.
This period of increased activity is expected to continue for the next 12 months.
Due to the volume of solar activity, the lights have been visible more regularly in areas of Scotland that they would not normally reach.
Northern Scotland remains the best place to view the spectacle in the UK, with Shetland being the hotspot for viewings.
Elizabeth J. McGrath, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Colby College, in the US told The Sun: “The sun has been very active recently, and we expect it to continue through 2025.
“Normally we only see the aurora at locations close to Earth’s magnetic north and south poles because charged particles from the sun get trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field and funnelled to the poles.
“With stronger solar storms during solar maximum, there are more charged particles from the sun, and when these particles interact with Earth’s magnetic field, they can be distributed farther from Earth’s north and south magnetic poles, reaching more southerly latitudes here on Earth.
“That’s why we’ve been noticing the aurora in locations that don’t typically experience aurora.”
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But there was no cause for alarm as ET hadn’t stopped to visit the Christmas Markets, organisers in Edinburgh were just testing the lights for the Hogmanay celebrations.
We previously told how Hogmanay is set to be a freezing washout this year, with snow and rain warnings covering Scotland.
High winds are also battering the country, throwing some events into doubt, with attractions in Edinburgh delaying their opening times.
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Revellers face disruption with 70mph gusts on Tuesday in the Central Belt and southern Scotland, plus snow and rain, then 50mph winds in similar areas on New Year’s Day.
Arctic air will also hit on Wednesday to bring up snow flurries.
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