Subject: Looking for some suggestions
From: "dbercaw2001" <dbercaw@...>
Date: 09 Mar 2002 07:06
The area I am in seems to be blessed with spooklights, i.e., the Hornet light, the Dover light, the Gurdon light, and the Crosset light. I have also, over the years, heard rumors of yet another light across the border in Oklahoma, in the area of my hometown. I am trying to chase this one down to confirm or deny. We are located about an equal distance between the Hornet and the Dover sites (about an hour driving time in different directions). I have been toying with the idea that these lights appear in areas of metallic deposits and are not connected with tectonic activity. For example, the Hornet site is located in an area of a large lead and zinc deposit which has been mined since the early 1900s. All of the sites are in areas of virtually no earthquake activity and all are too far away from the New Madrid fault for the activity in that area to be of any consequence. The idea that I would like to test is that the energy source for these lights are from telluric currents channeled through areas of high conductivity (from the metal deposits), with the lights appearing at the interface where the telluric currents surface and come into contact with currents in the atmosphere. As you can tell, this idea is only half baked and some data is needed before any testable hypothesis can be formed. I am starting to put together a proposal for a technology oriented school in our area that I am involved with to do a research project on the lights. My admittedly ambitious idea is to develop remote sensing stations at the Hornet and Dover sites (assuming landowner permission can be obtained or station sites can be leased)to gather data on the order of what has been done with Project Hessdalen and what Joseph DiVerdi has done with NCEMO. I am interested in hearing ideas for instrumentation. My ideas are: Magnetometer Seismograph Internal and external temperature sensors Telluric current sensor Sensor for earth resistivity measurement The telluric current sensor is an issue. I have been surveying for information on devices for earth current measurement, including ground antennas, and all of the methods seem pretty crude. Another issue is measurement of radio wave transmissions through the earth in the ELF/VLF frequencies, but at what frequency should measurements be taken? Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.