BS3
Abominable Showman
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Still racking my brains over this 1965 report. The one thing purple and blue lights might suggest is an electrical phenomenon of some kind. Could the blue light 'emerging' from the purple one be caused by an arcing power line? Could the purplish hue be caused by corona discharge? Electrical arcing would explain the "welder's light" appearance reported by McCoy.
If there were power lines running generally towards the observers then you might, just might, imagine the sudden 'jump' towards them to be explicable by the arcing travelling along the lines. But having seen photographs of the sighting location there are no power lines there...I still tend, however, to imagine some kind of electrical phenomenon could be a plausible source of the report. Power lines would also explain why the phenomenon only seemed to be viewable from one place - it was quite localised and in reality close to the ground.
I feel the shadow cast by the moonlight is the weakest part of the story. If the object was casting bright purple light into the car's interior and onto the surroundings, how would this shadow have been noticeable? It suggests witness exaggeration
If there were power lines running generally towards the observers then you might, just might, imagine the sudden 'jump' towards them to be explicable by the arcing travelling along the lines. But having seen photographs of the sighting location there are no power lines there...I still tend, however, to imagine some kind of electrical phenomenon could be a plausible source of the report. Power lines would also explain why the phenomenon only seemed to be viewable from one place - it was quite localised and in reality close to the ground.
I feel the shadow cast by the moonlight is the weakest part of the story. If the object was casting bright purple light into the car's interior and onto the surroundings, how would this shadow have been noticeable? It suggests witness exaggeration
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