One thing that Bullough suggests pedestrians and drivers do to stay safe under purple streetlights—or any lights, for that matter—is to remove sunglasses and blue-light-filtering glasses when ...

A purple wave of faulty streetlights has swept across the USA, generating incorrect theories, bad lighting and fans of an accidental aesthetic.

Purple and blue hues are due to a manufacturer error, Keith Richardson, a senior communications manager at Duke Energy, told The News & Observer. The defect causes the light to gradually turn ...

Grandma Hill lives in Natomas and got the video on her cell phone of little Johnny, 8, and Audrey, 5, praying about this mysterious purple light. "Hey, God. Please help me.

Muddying the waters a bit more, purple light doesn't exactly take well to other colors. They tend to wash most shades out and make colors appear blue, purple, or black.