[ckilmer]

there's a grey arcing streak in the sky and a flash in the water above and to the right of the boat dock.

go figure

[FredZarguna]

Zot?

[Justice]

Preparing tinfoil hat.

[leadpencil1]

This was posted before and is supposed to be a picture of a meteor stricking the lamp post.

[hail to the chief]

I've seen a streak like that before. It was coming down at a steep angle going the opposite direction from a similar white streak. Also, it was near water just before it started raining on a very cloudy day.

[ex-Texan]

Uh, er, umm, is it possibly an alien spacecraft? Or, perhaps a Chinese missle on a test flight? Oh, I know! It is a bit of junk from a Russkie space platform disintegrating . . . WHOOMP!

[The Mayor]

It's a laser blast from the mother ship!

[listenhillary]

Smoke is curling up from the base of the light pole. Shooting rockets from a boat?

[rdl6989]

We're doomed!

[Between the Lines]

The streak in the sky just appears to be related to the light. If you will cover the light with something you can clearly see that the gray streak disappears over the horizon.

The more interesting streak is the one on the waters surface that seems to cross the water from the lamp post to the opposite shore. No where else on the water does this color appear. Also this colored streak goes in front of the lamp post. Not very likely.

[SaltyJoe]

Airborne (or possibly space borne) energy gun test proving its accuracy and lethality by taking a precision shot at a street light and vaporizing it.

Don't tell the Chinese or North Koreans, they'll be really upset about this.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Looks like the shadow of a jet trail, as seen when the trail obscures the sun, and generates a planar shadow that appears as a line when viewed from within the plane of the shadow. But I can't tell where the sun is, so who knows?