'Flying Banana' traveling 125 mph fires laser into sky and catches aurora hunters off guard (video)

A 360 view of the night sky with a huge blue pillar reaching into the night sky.

On two separate nights in May, a strange blue laser sliced through the skies over the Oxfordshire, England countryside, leaving skywatchers baffled. Astrophotographer and astronomy communicator Mary McIntyre captured the eerie spectacle on her remote aurora-hunting cameras — and what she saw didn't match anything she'd encountered before.