MIN MIN LIGHTS -

Min min lights are mysterious but are not creatures of any sort. They are usually seen out in remote areas late at night and can appear to follow as you move along.

There have been literally hundreds of sightings of min min lights over the years and no doubt exists as to their reality but what is mysterious is why these lights occur at all and why to they sometimes seem to respond to people's actions.

Experiments have revealed that the phenomenon is probably refracted light from some source that is not visible in the normal way.

Professor Jack Pettigrew, of the University of Queensland in Brisbane claims the lights are actually an inverted mirage of light sources which are, in some cases, hundreds of kilometres away over the horizon.

Is this the only explanation? It is perhaps somewhat more romantic to think of the lights as the spirits of lost bush walkers and others who died in the outback. Not at all scientific of course but somewhat more interesting.

Min min lights appear to operate in the same manner as landforms over the horizon that sometimes appear in inverted form floating in the air. This phenomenon is known as Fata Morgana.

Thermal inversion layers in the air trap cold dense air next to the ground with warm thinner air above. This appears to refract light in such a way as to make it curve around the surface of the Earth.

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