Pulsing blue light freaks Twitter out, but it's definitely not aliens

A pulsing bright blue light illuminating the sky across Queens, New York on Thursday night had everyone thinking one thing.

But before you even start, it's not aliens.

Awestruck folks shared footage on Twitter of the strangely glimmering turquoise light, each equally as baffled as the other.

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Similar to the 2015 freak-out of Los Angeles, when a 'blue light' streaked across the night sky, folks on Twitter declared it one of two things: aliens or something worth calling Ghostbusters for.

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Instead of proof that extraterrestrials live among us and the People in Black are the galaxy defenders you always suspected, the glimmering light was reportedly derived from a transformer explosion at a Con Edison power facility in Astoria, according to the New York City Police Department.

Police said the fire was "under control," as confirmed in a tweet, and the 144th precinct asked citizens to avoid 20th Avenue and 31st Street. NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan confirmed no injuries were sustained in the explosion.

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The New York City Fire Department also tweeted confirmation that it was investigating a transformer incident at Con Edison's Queens facility.

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City Council Speaker Corey Johnson also noted on Twitter that New York's LaGuardia airport was "temporarily closed due to power outage resulting from the ConEd transformer explosion," but was soon back up and running.

Con Edison confirmed on Twitter that there was a "brief electrical fire" it its Astoria substation, which affected electrical transformers. This caused a "transmission dip" for the area surrounding the facility.

"Power lines serving the area are in service and the system is stable," the company tweeted.

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So, there you go, the light was caused by a transformer explosion. It's definitely not aliens. It's never aliens. But then again...

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UPDATE: Dec. 28, 2018, 3:08 p.m. AEDT Con Edison issued a statement regarding the cause of the light on Twitter. This story has been updated to reflect this.