Eerie glow in sky confuses Australian town and outs cannabis farm

22.07.2022, 11:35 bbc.com

When a pink glow lit up the evening sky above an Australian town on Wednesday, local woman Tammy Szumowski wondered if the apocalypse had arrived. "I was just being a cool, calm mum, telling the kids: 'There's nothing to worry about,'" she told the BBC. "But in my head I'm like, what the hell is that?" It turned out to be light emanating from a cannabis farm just outside the town of Mildura, in northern Victoria. But like other stunned locals, Ms Szumowski's mind initially went elsewhere - was it an alien invasion? An asteroid? "Mum's on the phone and Dad's in the background going: 'I better hurry up and eat my tea because the world's ending'."