By: Owen Zhang

Just last Wednesday, residents of Mildura shouted in awe as they witnessed what seemed to be purple colored fog emerging from the group miles away.

This very bizarre occurrence led many to believe that they were witnessing the end of the world.

In one such example, Tammy Szumowski and her family noticeably panicked as they witnessed this extraordinary event, “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 believed that there was a reason behind this mysterious pink light. Anne Webster, a lawmaker who represents the area in Australia’s Parliament, said, “I was driving home, and it was dark, and I noticed a very unusual, quite large pink glow.”

She knew that something strange was happening but thought that there had to be some reason for this occurrence.

Later, people discovered that the light originated from a medical cannabis facility on the outskirts of Mildura. The cause of this light was a failure to mask the lights via blackout curtains. They used these pink LED lights to boost plant growth.

In Australia, the production of medical Marijuana is legal, and over 70,000 Australians turn to Marijuana to help pain, anxiety, and sleeping problems.

The pink light was simply caused when the Marijuana facility forgot to close the blackout curtains that hid the lights.

“We’ve resumed normal transmission, but it definitely caught everyone’s attention in the meantime,” Crock, the Cann chief executive, said of Wednesday’s incident. “Any publicity is good publicity.”