You can see the light in the video above from KHOU11. While some have had some interesting theories as to what the mysterious beam of light is, many have attributed the red flare to a light pillar.

Light pillars are a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. During freezing temperatures, flat and fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in the form of light snow, sometimes ...

The ideal conditions for light pillars require a precise combination of meteorological factors: extremely cold temperatures between -10° to -40°C, high humidity, and virtually no wind.

Pillars of lightWeather Watchers captured a beautiful rare phenomenon known as a sun pillar on Sunday evening. A sun pillar is a vertical shaft of light which appears above the sun. It occurs when ...

Light pillars are usually reported about once a winter, but because they often happen during the wee hours of the morning, people often miss them, Young said. "People should just keep their eyes ...

A sun pillar is a narrow column of light that reaches straight up from the rising or setting sun. It forms when sunlight reflects off the surfaces of falling ice crystals. Most times, those ice ...

Sabah, a state in eastern Malaysia, has reportedly witnessed light pillars in both 2006 and 2015. UPDATE: June 28, 2017, 10:30 a.m. SGT This story previously noted that Andrew Tan was with a group ...