Min Min light - Definition

Min Min Lights are unexplained lights usually seen in northeastern Australia.

Example

Almost every single winter during the 1950s a strange phenomenon revisited Della Lanahan's sheep and cattle farm in Queensland, Australia. Described as 'a light that circled the yard a few feet above the gound, flaring to a diameter of almost 15 feet'. It collapsed to a tiny, dull red glow when Lanahan shot at it, but soon afterwards brightened and expanded again. After around an hour the light shrank again and disappeared, then reappeared in the distance and darted out of sight. This account was among the 500 or so collected by Fred Silcock during 1993 while researching Australia's mysterious min min lights. Some people believe that the min min lights are examples of exotic, unknown natural phenomenon, akin to feux follets, will - o' - the wisps, marsh lights, Jack o Lanterns and spooklights.

Theories

There is a strong correlation to their appearance and areas prone to micro - earthquakes that contain a mixture of faulting, seismic history, mineral deposits or bodies of water. Michael Persinger, a professor of neuroscience at the Laurentian University, in Canada, suggests that strain fields produced in the flexing of the earth's crust can move through an area and create magnetic and electrical effects that produce these bizarre lights.

See also

• Norway
  • Hessdalen lights
• United States
  • Arkansas
    • Gurdon ghost light
  • North Carolina
    • Brown Mountain lights
    • Maco light
  • Georgia
    • Surrency Spooklight
  • Missouri
    • Hornet ghost light
  • Texas
    • Bragg Road ghost light
    • Marfa lights
  • Virginia
    • Cohoke light

External links

• Mystery of the Min Min lights explained (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm)

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