Posted on 05/27/2019 10:36:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Brown Mountain Lights are legendary UFOs (unidentified flying objects) in the North Carolina mountains. They’ve appeared to thousands of people over the past 100 years, yet like most UFOs, the Brown Mountain Lights are anything but predictable. App State physicist Daniel Caton and his team almost gave up after attempting to film the lights over the past few years.
Daniel Caton and his App State scientific team set up two cameras on a house overlooking the Brown Mountains and wirelessly streamed the footage to their lab back at Appalachian State University. For the past 4 years, they reviewed the footage every day from the previous night without seeing anything that couldn’t be easily explained (shooting stars, car lights, camera flares, etc).
If something shows up on one camera but not the other, the team assumes they just saw a lens flare or some other electronic anomaly.
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Moonshine.
Really good moonshine. Lots of it. Whether for the aliens or for the observers is yet to be determined.
And the App State team would do well to investigate no further. Not unless they want to experience the peculiar phenomenon of lead pellets whizzing at high velocity through the air toward them. Or the sound of "Dueling Banjos" out of nowhere.
Give ‘em Hell, Mountaineers.
When I was at App State, Watauga was a dry county.
The Brown Mountain Lights have been a thing forever.
You betcha!
Fire flies.
So it sounds like the ONE Time they see something like this, the second camera used to verify the sighting is down?
Boy - those aliens ARE sneaky!
click bait and not definitive of anything
The budget for this must be ****, wildlife cams would probasbly work, and some of the best sellers on Amazon are under $100 (with night vision). Even a couple of ordinary webcams (thrift stores, etc) inside a weatherproof container of some sort could be live-streamed to a local hard drive.
Those lights whatever they are have been seen far longer than the past hundred years. It goes back to frontier settlement in the mid-1700’s at least. The only thing new is trying to associate the phenomenon with UFO’s. In the past it was more of a ghost sort of thing, if there was any popular attempt to explain it at all.
"Coulda been crows." ~ something Oberg would say.
airplanes
Crows with a flashlight. It had a light on the bottom. Which makes me wonder something else. If it’s trying to stay hidden, what’s with the spotlight? If not, why not fly around all the time in broad daylight? Makes no sense to me.
Same question. Why hover around at night silently, but light up like a Christmas tree, beaming a spotlight at the ground, car, houses?
And why not show up during the day?
It wasn’t a spotlight, actually. Just a light. It would have looked like an ordinary star if it wasn’t moving and with a big black triangle shape surrounding it. No sound. Who knows. We weren’t both just imagining it though.
“Probably just some old-fashioned likker-makin’ going on up in them thar hills.”
A couple of decades back, I got lost on some dirt-road near the Pigeon River after taking the wrong exit off I-40 not too far from the NC / Tennessee line, and was greeted in the middle of the night by a couple of gentlemen with shotguns who did not seem too eager to make my acquaintance. Went into my best “baffled ignorant Yankee” act (not too tough under the circumstances) and politely asked for directions back to the interstate, which they graciously provided.
Not so sure how lucky I was to walk away from that one, but grateful none the less.
I saw something similar late one night in the late 1970's in Oklahoma when I was in the Air Force, except I would describe it as being more shield-shaped rather than triangular. It seemed fairly large, went very slowly from one end of the sky to the other and disappeared in the distance. I even called the tower to see if they saw anything. They said they didn't but I'm still convinced I did. I don't know if it was a UFO or some secret government aircraft, but I saw something.
The “U” means unidentified. I lean toward the Carl Sagan point of view. I’ll believe they are aliens when they show up for the DNA test.
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