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Originally Posted by THE_BEAST
I live up in the mountains in southern california in a isolated area. From time to time I see lights in the sky. They appear from small and very quick static discarges in the sky. There perfectly round white balls of light. Sometimes its one ball, and sometimes its two. Im not the only who has seen them. Family & friends that come over to visit have seen them too. They move insanely fast with no sound at all. Once they fly away you have about 4-5 seconds before they get out of sight. And when its two balls of light, they fly away in perfect sinc with eachother. With an occasional barrel roll (but always keeping the same exact perfect gap/distance from the other).
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You may be seeing reflections of things located many miles away, like a busy road or brightly lit intersection. This is called a
superior mirage. The higher you are, the farther away you can see, and reflected lights may appear in the sky on those special nights when it's warmer in the mountains than down below (temperature inversion).
If you are standing atop a mountain 1 km high... your horizon should be 112.88 km away.
From the top of Mauna Kea on Hawaii, an extinct volcano about 4 km high... the horizon should be about twice as distant, 226 km.
On the other hand, standing on the beach... the horizon is only 5 km distant.
(From http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Shorizon.htm)
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Originally Posted by NWO SCUM
I'm not surprised because the area where your at is a huge hot spot for UFO activity. Also when driving on highway 10 between Palm Springs and Blyte many have people have reported these sightings including up towards Needles. People see different things like ball lighting while others have said that they see crafts that are intelligently controlled such as seeing something in the sky that is stationary and then all of a sudden zooms away real fast. I have a nephew at 29 palms and him and his friends say it's coming somewhere from the east.
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"The superior mirage forms when cold air lies beneath relatively warmer air, a conditions known to meteorologists as a
temperature inversion. In this condition, light rays
refract, or
bend, toward the colder (and denser) air -- that is, downward. This bending causes the image of the object to appear to us to be above its actual position because our brains assume the light rays have taken a straight path from the object to our eyes. The rate of increase of temperature with height (the
temperature gradient) affects how the light rays travel from the object to our eyes and thus how we see the resulting image pattern. The superior mirage may cause the image (or parts thereof) of an object to appear:
- visible even though the object is actually located below the geometric horizon (the line of sight drawn from our eye tangent to the surface of the earth);
- lifted well above its actual position -- for example, a boat appearing to sail in the clouds;
- inverted from its normal image;
- multiplied and either upright or inverted;
- taller, larger or closer than it actually is; or
- shorter, smaller or further away than it actually is.
When an image appears much higher in the sky than the actual object's position, the condition is termed
looming. When an image appears much taller, the condition is termed
towering. When an image appears much shorter, the condition is termed
stooping."
From
The Superior Mirage: Seeing Beyond
