Rick RojasVerified account

Neighbors near the power plant in Astoria heard a loud boom and saw green light fill their windows. Some fled their homes, afraid of what was happening. “It was scary,” said one man who lived nearby for 30 years. “It was like something from outer space, like we were invaded.”

“It was so loud,” another neighbor told me, describing the hum she and others heard as the colors lit up the night sky. “I could hear it with my windows closed.” Half an hour later, she said it still hear the trill in her ears.