Man shoots gun at 'alien lasers' that turn out to be fireflies

A Clinton County, Pennsylvania couple apparently got just a little too messed up on Saturday (police claim they'd overdone it on the bath salts) and waged an epic battle with summertime fireflies—which they had mistaken for "alien lasers," reports WNEP.

Jesse Shields fired a handgun at the “lasers” at the fluorescent creatures and he and Katherine McCloskey ran away to hide in a barn, thinking they were being chased by aliens.

They ran to a neighborhood home, where a neighbor was able to make them relinquish their weapon. Shields begged the neighbor to “get the goo off him that was burning his skin.”