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Secret Australian marijuana facility exposes location after turning sky pink

By Marina Lopes
July 23, 2022 at 3:32 a.m. EDT



A pink glow lights the sky above the Australian town of Mildura this week. (Instagram @desert_2_sea via Reuters)

A mysterious pink glow illuminated the sky above the Australian town of Mildura on Wednesday evening, leaving residents wondering if they were witnessing an alien invasion, misplaced northern lights or some sort of solar flare.

Local resident Tammy Szumowski and her family thought the world might be coming to an end. “I was just like ‘What the hell is that?’ It is very bizarre, this huge pink light in the sky,” she said. “I’m trying not to freak out because I’ve got my girls in the car.” ... Others looked for an explanation.

“I was driving home and it was dark, and I noticed a very unusual, quite large pink glow,” said Anne Webster, a lawmaker who represents the area in Australia’s Parliament. “I thought that is very strange. My first thought was there has to be a logical reason for this.”

In fact, the glow emanated from a medical cannabis facility on the outskirts of Mildura that inadvertently revealed its previously undisclosed location while testing out LED lights, which reflected off the cloudy night sky to create an eerie, supernatural scene that spooked and delighted the town of 56,000 residents.

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By Marina Lopes
Marina Lopes was a reporter based in Brazil for The Washington Post. Before joining the paper, she reported for Reuters in Mozambique, New York and Washington. She left The Post in June 2020. Twitter https://twitter.com/bymarinalopes