Take a closer look at the third photo in Austin Popper's post above. I noticed a few things that are odd. To illustrate, here's a 2-in-1 excerpt that's been magnified.
Point 1:
Look at the two lines of ground lights within the red boxes. They represent two stretches of streetlights (etc.) in the valley / flats in the distance. Note that the one on the right is horizontal and aligned with the mountain range beyond. The one at the left is angled substantially off the horizontal. Now look at the full photo in Austin Popper's post above. It appears that this photo was taken with a lens or a lens setting that induced a pretty substantial 'fish-eye' effect.
Point 2:
The bright lights comprising these two areas within the red boxes appear to be emanating streaks or beams upward from the brightest light sources. The ones in the left-hand box appear to be perpendicular to the plane in which the lights are located. The ones in the right-hand box appear to rise with a consistent angular orientation off the vertical. In each of these two cases the set of streaks are all parallel to each other within each box. The ones in the right-hand box appear to also parallel the big blue beam. The ones in the left-hand box are less obviously parallel to the big blue beam (and the streaks in the right-hand box).
These streaks are reminiscent of light pillars:
Light Pillars / Sun Pillars
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/light-pillars-sun-pillars.68107/
Light pillars require cold temperature, still air and ice crystals suspended in the air. There's no obvious reason to suspect one or more of these conditions wasn't met when the photo was taken.
The perpendicular / seemingly vertical (relative to the apparent ground plane) ones in the left-hand box resemble all the canonical light pillar photos I've seen.
The angled ones in the right-hand box resemble the same sort of light effect. However, I don't recall ever seeing a photo of a light pillar in which the pillar was angled off the vertical.
Point 3:
The closely parallel orientation of both the big blue beam and the streaks rising off the distant lights suggest there's some relationship between the blue beam and the light pillars (or whatever ... ) in the distance.
Point 4:
Absent evidence to the contrary I suspect this photo was taken using a zoom lens configured so as to induce a measure of wide-angle / fisheye distortion (see the full photo). I further suspect that a non-fisheyed view of the same scene at the same time might show the streaks in the right-hand box as vertical - i.e., more like a classic light pillar.
Note that the other photo looking in the same direction, but at a different distance or zoom setting doesn't show the light pillar thingies at all.
Point 5:
Whether we're seeing lights pillars, some other optical phenomenon 'out there' or some optical effect of the camera / lens the parallelism in all 3 light sets makes me suspicious they may all result from a single reflection / refraction effect or anomaly.