As I was driving deeper and deeping into the city of Eindhoven to reach the city centre, the sky started to change more and more. Not in a way of that there are some kinds of 'hints' of colour in the sky.
Now the sky was lighted more purple than you would ever imagine. This is not the Northern lights heading into the Southern country all of a sudden. This also isn't the aliens coming and this also isn't the newest version of the lighting festival that had just started or something.
There is literally no filter over this snap, this is really how purple the sky was.
So what is it?
I wasn't the only person wondering what the hell was going on here. And then I found this article on AD.nl which explains it all a bit more. (PS: if you havent used archive.ph for opening articles behind a paywall, you are totally missing out on something)
In the heart of the city of Eindhoven there is soccer stadium belonging to the club PSV. They have started using these purple lights for the grass inside the stadium to make the new grass sprout faster. As they say these purple lights should have a lot better results on letting the grass grow, and it is also a lot cheaper in energy.
These lights are not on all night. They are turned on in these dark days but also are shut down at night. But when it is dark early here (17.30 it is pitch black at the moment) and a bit foggy, that is when you can see the lights really good and even from a distance.
So yeah, I can imagine when it is not foggy and it is later on the evening that you will not be able to this, so this was a lucky shot. I do wonder however how life at that moment is when you are living in one of these skyscrapers?
Regardless...the city of Eindhoven remains an innovative one, and I like these kinds of experiments.
Careful about "official" responses. It is aliens - they just don't want you to know.
Hhahaha, it is what they want you to believe. We know better by now ;)
That's such an interesting phenomenon.
I would've never guessed that the purple glow was coming from the PSV stadium lights meant for grass growth.
It's fascinating how something so practical can create such a surreal and otherworldly scene in the sky.
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It look SO weird right? It has been more of a thing here in agriculture that those purple lights are used more to have better growing results in plants in the greenhouses. Normally you just don't see it that well
That is weird!! I saw orange skies here when we had "sand from the Sahara" over Spain, but I had never seen anything like that... Btw. how the heck can those lights reflect that much from the grass? It has to be super-strong lights?!
EDIT: Just checked the article that you shared... I have suspicions that they grow something else there, not just grass... hahahahahaha... I saw similar lights at other "places"... 😂
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Consider ofcourse that this is in the Netherlands wink wink hahahahah
Nehhh the football stadium is half open from the outside, so you can actually see them standing there. But indeed...who knows what kind of bottom these guy are playijg football on hahaha. This was a combination of that the fog was hanging so low and that the lights reflected on the clouds, normally you wouldn't see it that good.
I know those orange skies as well! In the caribbean we also had those a lot, first the sky orange and the next day your car orange hahaha
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Now now, stereotypes and all that :)
Hahahaha... @karinxxl started first! 😜 She is a local, so she can do that! 😂
Ghehehhe exactly! The funny thing about that is....hardly any dutch people smoke pot here....when you see a coffee shop, there are only tourists and foreigners in there. Verdict of the local :D
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Ahhhhh be honest...that is the first thing that people thin about when talking about Dutchies right??
Nah - It's how beautiful the women are (hehe) and how bonkers the guys are :)