Subject: Re: Croxteth, Liverpool, UK Earth Light
From: "david clarke" <david@...>
Date: 7 Apr 2006 10:55
Sean wrote: > > I think there are generally two important things that can be done with > amateur sightings of possible earth lights. 1) Record the event as > well as possible and then submit it to as many cumulative anomalous > incident databases as possible, rather than letting it be a > standalone; and 2) possibly conduct further research in the area to > see whether the event was sporadic or not, using as much equipment as > possible to record further events in the latter case. > It's difficult to draw any definitive conclusions with respect to sightings that simply involve a light or lights seen on one occasion in a particular place, but never repeated. I've tended to ignore this type of report and concentrate on ) those cases where lights have been seen repeatedly over a lengthy period of time in one specific area, i.e. Longdendale, Hessdalen, or b) lights have been seen repeatedly in one place for a specific period of time, i.e. Burton Dassett hills. Unfortunately, there hasn't been anything noteworthy in the last ten years in the UK which has fallen into categories a) or b), and even if something did occur we have the usual problem of lack of resources etc to allow an investigation of the type undertaken in Norway. Dave Clarke