Reply #31: the photo in the (print version of) the paper shows several...

[NorthernSpy]

... (maybe eight or nine) vertical columns of light superimposed on a glowing horizon. The beams vary in their brightness and in their apparent distance from each other. They trail up through the orange glow, and the glow and beams fade together into black night.

In the foreground, there's a dark fence, and a dark landscape seen in silhouette against the orange glow.


At the base of some of the beams, there are large whitish gold bight spots, and the bightest of these (the one furthest to righthand edge of the photo) seems to be surrounded by a glowing halo in addition to the beam of light streaming upwards from it.


It's hard to judge distances from this photo, but the seem appear to emanate from spots that might be thousands of feet apart.


Even if some well-organized kids could account for the beams, what accounts for the big orange glow? Northern Penobscot County is a huge swath of territory, and it's just about all uninhabited forest.