From fwestra@... Sat Mar 01 10:32:12 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: fwestra@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 1 Mar 2003 18:32:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 52512 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2003 18:32:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Mar 2003 18:32:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rebecca.tiscali.nl) (195.241.76.181) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2003 18:32:11 -0000 Received: from xs195-241-228-62.dial.tiscali.nl (xs195-241-228-62.dial.tiscali.nl [195.241.228.62]) by rebecca.tiscali.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B1D27440BCB for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:32:05 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 19:32:15 +0100 X-Mailer: Net-Tamer 1.12.0 Subject: Fwd = [fort] The Naga Fireballs X-Mailreader: NTReader v0.37w(P)/Beta (Registered) Message-Id: <20030301183205.B1D27440BCB@...> From: Frits Westra X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=196822 X-Yahoo-Profile: parodynl Forwarded by: fwestra@... (Frits Westra) Originally from: fort@yahoogroups.com Original Subject: [fort] Digest Number 1435 Original Date: 28 Feb 2003 22:28:08 -0000 ========================== Forwarded message begins ====================== Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:48:44 -0700 From: "Terry W. Colvin" Subject: The Naga Fireballs Science Frontiers, No. 146, Mar-Apr, 2003, p. 4 GEOPHYSICS The Naga Fireballs Twice before (SF#114 and #116), we have touched on the Naga Fireballs that rise from Thailand's Mekong River when the moon is full on the eleventh lunar month (in October). During this annual event, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of red, pink, and orange luminous spheres break the river's surface and sail off into the sky. This event has been observed for hundreds of years and, in modern times, repeatedly video-taped. It is now a major tourist attraction. The year 2002 display was disappointing; only 824 fireballs counted at the usual locations. And they seem to be getting smaller, too. In 1994, some were the size of beachballs, in 2002 the size reference is the tennis ball. Scientific studies of the phenomenon seem nonexistent. We are left only with some very wild surmises: (1) Spontaneous ignition of riverbed gas deposits released by the full-moon's gravitational pull (!); and (2) The combustion of natural butane and atomic oxygen created by the full-moon's radiation! Obviously, we need some hard science applied here. And what's so different about the October full moon gravitation-wise and ultraviolet-wise? (Sutton, David; "The Naga Fireballs," *Fortean Times,* no. 166, p. 35, February 2003. Anonymous; *The Gate,* p. 10, January 2003. Both of these off-mainstream publications cite Thai newspapers.) Comment. There are more-solid references. See GLN1-X73 in our *Remarkable Luminous Phenomena.* Also: Naga lights = Nekha lights. -- Terry W. Colvin, Sierra Vista, Arizona (USA) < fortean1@... > Alternate: < fortean1@... > Home Page: < http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/8958/index.html > Sites: * Fortean Times * Mystic's Haven * TLCB * U.S. Message Text Formatting (USMTF) Program ------------ Member: Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood (TLCB) Mailing List TLCB Web Site: < http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org >[Vietnam veterans, Allies, CIA/NSA, and "steenkeen" contractors are welcome.] ========================== Forwarded message ends ========================