9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds: On the evening of the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery. Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiraling, unlike anything seen on other nights. Those unidentified objects have now been identified as birds, pulled from their migratory path and bedazzled by the light in a perfect, poignant storm of avian disorientation.
This would make an interesting metaphor. But, for what?