A man in North Bay, Ontario Canada woke up in the middle of the night to a magical view of beams of colorful lights shooting up into the sky.

The view was so majestic that he had to take his camera to capture the once-in-a-lifetime moment.

"We can blame the two-year-old. He started crying at 1:30 a.m., so I got up and soothed him ... and out the window I had the perfect view of these dancing lights in the sky," said Timothy Joseph Elzinga.

"I had to investigate. I got some pants on and ran outside and took some photos."

According to National Geographic, Elzinga captured a weather phenomenon known as light pillars.

Light pillars, to be specific, are atmospheric optical phenomenon in the form of a vertical band of light which appears to beam above and below a light source. This effect can only be achieved with the presence of numerous tiny ice crystals in the clouds, which reflect the light either from the sun, thus creating a sun or solar pillar or from the moon, or from other light sources such as street lights.

In the case of Elzinga's photos, the air was so cold that ice crystals were formed in the air, reflecting the city's business and street lights.

"It looked like someone from Star Trek was trying to beam people up," Elzinga said.

"It was very bright in person, like nothing I've ever seen. It almost seemed supernatural."

Check out the following majestic scenes showing these light pillars below.

In 2014, another resident of Ontario captured these light pillars in his camera. See the beautiful pillars of light as Jay Callahan captured them in Petersborough.