Earlier this month I attended the White Sands Star Party where over a hundred amateur astronomers set up their telescopes for three nights of observing. As the sun was setting the first night we saw a dimly lit column rising into the air. At first we thought it was a dust devil, but it never moved. As it became fully dark, we realized the column was a pair of bright lights shining straight up into the desert sky. I had the camera pointed toward the NNW. Holloman Air Force Base was far to my right so the lights were not from the air base, and a road atlas shows nothing but open desert in this direction. The illuminated clouds near the top of the picture give clues to the distance and intensity of the lights. I've been puzzling over their purpose. They remind me of the WTC memorial lights that were on display in lower Manhattan for a while. In the picture they are in the direction of the Trinity Site. Could there be a connection with that?
Chris Lancaster
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It is very handy that this picture is in good quality. If you look at the beam, you can see that it is shining from the ground, and then begins to fade. It seems it lasts only long enough to reach the flat light in the sky.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you can see that there are at least two beams, meaning that the object that is projecting it is symmetrical, however most likely not round. In the picture there are droplets of what looks like water. However the cloud around the beam is circling it, so it may have a gravitational effect on the cloud, but only to some degree. these signs would mean that this was made for a purpose, a purpose bigger than the natural cloud formation and weather balance. Some sort of light partical contact between two or more points.