|
|
|
|
|
Brown Mountain LightsThe Brown Mountain Lights are a series of Unidentified Flying Objects reported near Brown Mountain in North Carolina. Theyre likely the only UFOs to have inspired a bluegrass song, Scotty Wisemans Brown Mountain Lights, later performed by the Kingston Trio. The earliest known account dates from September 13, 1913, as reported in the Charlotte Daily Observer. Fisherman claimed to have seen mysterious lights seen just above the horizon every night red in color, with a pronounced circular shape. Rather soon after this account, a United States Geological Survey employee, D.B. Stewart, studied the area in question and determined the witnesses had mistaken train lights for something more mysterious. Reports of odd lights continued, and a more formal U.S.G.S. survey began in 1922, under the direction of George Rogers Mansfield. He determined witnesses had misidentified automobile or train lights, fires, or mundane stationary lights. In later decades, reports of the Brown Mountain Lights contented. An experiment conducted in 1977 shone a 50,000 candlepower floodlight 22 miles towards Brown Mountain. Experimenters saw a red, circular light floating above the horizon, and thus concluded that refraction of ordinary lights were likely to blame for the Brown Mountain Lights. Sources *Jerome Clark, Unexplained! 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, 1993.
|
 |
|
| Copyright 2005-2009 OnPedia.com. All Rights Reserved |
|
|