After an unusual lightning phenomenon appeared in Alexandria's sky from Saturday night until the early hours of Sunday morning, a hashtag carrying the city's Arabic name and a bunch of apocalyptic theories became a trending topic in Egypt.
While many admired how pretty the sky looked in the photos shared of the lightning, a strange occurrence in the summer for Alexandria, many others concluded that the strange natural phenomenon must be an apocalyptic sign, of course.
In the photos, the lightning appears to be situated in a specific corner of the sky behind a bundle of clouds in what appears to be a distant thunderstorm above the sea, the lightening appears to be illuminating the clouds and the rest of the sky in different shades of purple and orange.
The photos scared people enough for Egypt's National Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics Research to release a statement assuring people that the phenomenon was not a sign of our world coming to an end.
The head of the institute's astronomy department, Dr. Ashraf Tadros, said in the statement that what appeared in Alexandria's sky was just a normal lightning phenomenon that happened to illuminate the heavy clouds in front of it, adding that it was not poof of the apocalypse.
"People are scared these days from any phenomena that happen in the sky and they attribute them to what was published earlier about the beginning of the end of the world and the signs of doom's day in September 2015," said Tadros.
"The aliens will conquer Alexandria and will seek revenge for the people of Alexandria from the people who used to vacation in our city," one Twitter user wrote sarcastically.
While it might be tempting for apocalyptic movie enthusiasts to believe that untimely lightning coloring the clouds is a sign proving that the end of the world is coming soon, couldn't it just have been a sign that global warming has changed our climate?
It's probably not the first or last weather incident to happen in an unusual time and unusual place, so let's just chill and tone it down with the apocalyptic theories, Internet!