These stunning images show mysterious columns of light streaming into the sky above the town of Sigulda in Latvia at the end of last month.

Taken by designer Aigar Truhins with a standard digital camera, the photographs have prompted excited online discussions among amateur astronomists all over the internet.

'My son exclaimed, 'The aliens are coming!'' Truhins was quoted as saying.

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Beam me up: Mysterious columns of light stream into the air above the town of Sigulda

The mysterious lights prompted excited discussion on the internet

'It certainly looked that way,' he added.

But experts are agreed there may be a more prosaic explanation - ice crystals in the air.

The air above the town was notably cold and filled with suspended ice crystals.

 It is believed that the columns were formed by those reflecting light from the bright streetlamps and other lights on the ground - beaming it back downwards again.

Skies all over Europe have been filled with such natural phenomena during the cold snap of recent weeks.

But finally the experts agreed on one explanation...

The lights were said to be a reflection caused by the light from streetlamps on the ground hitting ice crystals suspended in the cold air

Scientists at the website spaceweather.com said: 'Truhin’s pillars are not the ordinary kind. Even eading experts in atmospheric optics can’t quite figure them out

'These pillars are mysterious. They have unexplained curved tops and even curved arcs coming from their base.

'Arcs in rare displays like these could be from column crystals to give parts of tangent arcs, others could be the enigmatic Moilanan arc or even the recently discovered reflected Parry arc.

'We do not know – so take more photos on cold nights!'

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 No question here, however, regarding "Beam me up: Scientists left baffled as mysterious columns of coloured light appear in the night skies" a comment. At a channeling in Longmont, CO on 1/11/09, Kryon told us of these comming events and explained that it is a new consciousness comming into the planet. And, that it would "baffle" scientists.

 

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Wow I have seen the same exact thing before, I didn't have any clue what it could possibly be or if anyone else could even see it.  This happened to me when I was deployed with a national guard unit to Fort Carson Colorado, right next to Cheyenne mountain.  It was late summer or early fall of 2004.  I was leaving a convenience store when i noticed lights everywhere had a column of light shooting straight up into the sky.  Even lights that where covered by a roof or something else, still had a column of light above it.  It was very strange.  I didn't hear anyone I know talk about it, if they even seen it.  There where many things I have seen while at Fort Carson,  such as a time I was walking out of the gym there and noticed right above Ft. Carson where three VERY big cloud ships all lined up next to each other.  I was completely speechless as I stood there, quite amazing to say the least.