Subject: Re: Alabama Earthlights (revisited)
From: Aaron Cox <wyattknows@...>
Date: 5 Apr 2006 19:05
RESPONSE thanks for the quick response. I was told about these Earthlights back in 1977 by a friend who's mom had seen several of them on her property in Luaderdale County. A friend and I spoke to some witnesses who saw a large Earthlight (6-8 feet in diameter) float a few feet above the ground in a field near his house. This was in 1973. This is the earliest sighting I can confirm. Since then, we "narrowed down" the areas where they can be seen. And in the process we have takne many time-expouser photos and in Feb. of this year I made a made a 2 minute video of a large Earthlight. Most of them are large and bright orange. The average sighting lasts from 1-3 munutes. On a "good" night two or three Earthlighs will be seen. On one occassion, we observed an Earthlight hover about thirty feet above some train trackss for about three minutes - and when a train approached about three minutes later, it followed the train - at the same speed until they were out of site. While I no longer live in Alabama, I still go there occassionally to observe the Earthlights and I have permission from a land owner to use his property where most of the Earthlights can be seen from. The general area of the Earthlights is in Lauderdale County -about five miles south of the Ala.-Tenn. State Line - near Highway 17. Any way, I have more info, if interested. Wyatt Cox --- sean_b_palmer <sean@...> wrote: > On Wed Apr 5, 2006 8:08 pm, Wyatt Cox wrote: > > > The Earhtlights are large and can be seen on an > almost > > predictable basis. I have a detailed log of > sightings > > since the late 1970s, time-expouser photos and a > > recent video I shot. > > Great! Would you mind sharing more details with the > group? > > I've already been through your past emails to the > group, so I already > know about the size of the lights and the connection > to the railway > tracks &c. Do you have any actual transcriptions of > the logs, photos, > trip reports, or other existing documentation? Have > you put, or are > you going to put, any of this information on the > web? > > How many times have you seen the lights now, and how > many times have > you been on field trips to see them? Is the location > well-known by > others? Where exactly in Lauderdale County do they > occur? > > If you don't feel comfortable discussing this in > detail on the list, > I'll contact you personally off-list. > > Cheers, > > -- > Sean B. Palmer, mysterylights.com > Homepage: http://inamidst.com/sbp/ > > > > >