Talk:Min Min light

MIN MIN LIGHT

Wikipedia has become a platform for myth propagation. Having watched a min min light for about 30 minutes, and trying to walk towards it, there can only be one source of light that bright - the sun. The lights are always seen in hot weather in flat country, and I mean flat for a long way (perhaps 1000km) and in the hours after sunset. Under these conditions the sun is refracted over the horizon, think inversion layer. As these layers are not stationary the light bounces, disappears and reappears. I bet when you saw one you were looking West +/- ~23 degrees depending on season. Bob

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.122.186 (talk) 01:59, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

I would like to state as a resident of North Western Queensland from 1989 to 2002, Winter Time seemed to yield the greatest number of sightings. Not the warmer months as many seem to think. Yes, I have experienced sighting them, as well as viewing lights from as much as 60 kilometres away from their source over channel country. Lights that were on a Locomotive that I was waiting for at a siding called Book Inn between Cloncurry and Julia Creek in the 90s. It is amazing how the lights would dart about until the Locomotive came close. However, I have also witnessed and closely interacted with a light within a Riverbed, surrounded by Ranges with no Channel Country in sight. If any reader is interested, perhaps they could watch 'Search for the Min Min' by Don Meers.

Cheers 110.151.23.45 (talk) 10:26, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

@118.209.122.186 Considering these lights were documented in the 1800s, this seems to be a legitimate article. Wording is sloppy in places, but clearly this phenomenon exists. Even your refracted sunlight theory, if it has caused reports for hundreds of years and pop culture references, is worthy of inclusion. Mastakos (talk) 22:21, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

My friend and I saw the Min Min Light on our way to Boulia 2 years ago. When we got there we talked to some locals who have seen the light and told us that we were very lucky that we saw the light. It was the scariest moment of my life. We were both so scared that we couldn't sleep. We saw this presentation on the Min Min Light in town and it was exactly what we saw that night. We didn't go out at night after we saw the light because of the old stories of bad things happening if you follow the light.

~TAY~

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Actually, they are seen and called Min Min lights Australia wide, not just the eastern states, they are seen more in the NT and WA. The lights of white red and green represent it's notice of you. White unnoticed, red noticed and not caring, green noticed and coming for you. They are actually believed to be balls of evil with effects on the immediate area of where they land. This includes possession, manifestation and changed perception. How do I know this? Being aboriginal of course.

-KM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.122.249.202 (talk) 02:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Add to "See also" => "Brieselang Forest Light"

The "Brieselang Forest Light" is missing. For example: http://thenightsky.org/brieselang.html

And it needs a english Wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brieselang_Forest_Light&action=edit&redlink=1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brieselang ) Ignore the people from Wikipedia Germany. There are many negative reports and articles about Wikipedia Germany. There is a whole documentary film about the negative aspects of Wikipedia Germany.

If the Min-Min light is worth mentioning, then also the Brieselang light. White and red or orange lights were seen. Perhaps also green and/or blue. OK, some sightings may have been lights of cars behind the trees etc.. But not all. Some reports are too close (near).

Personal observation of min min lights.

I have seen the Min Min lights twice and know exactly what they are. Last time was in central Queensland. Warm Spring evenining. Driving east from Boulia at 100 km per hour. Flat straight road. No traffic.A light like a star appeared on the horizon, but did not rise. After a half hour it appeared a little brighter. Another half hour it revealed itself as the headlights of an oncoming car which was likely 200 km away when first seen. Over the last ten minutes, each time we thought to dim our high beams it turned out to be too soon. At all times the light had been a point source. The observation matches the theory that in the right atmospheric conditions the layer of air above the ground behaves like a fibre optic cable and refracts light, in this case from well beyond the horizon. The first time I saw the same effect was when driving west from Hay in southern NSW. So much for swamp gas, insect swarms and other inventive theories.

Removed references to Saudi Arabia

A similar phenomenon has been reported in Saudi Arabia where it is called abu fanoos (ابو فانوس) meaning "the man with the lamp" in Arabic. These lights have been reported near Rub' al Khali desert in Saudi Arabia. This is an article about the phenomenon in Australia. A separate article can be created for the Saudi Arabian phenomenon if published sources can be located. 97.102.30.205 (talk) 19:38, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Hypotheses extraneous text

This section begins, "It is unknown whether the Min Min lights are a real phenomenon, and if so, what their source might be."

This text seems unnecessary, more like an opinion or "hedging your bets" than anything. I recommend deletion, leaving just the statement that different explanations have been proposed. Mastakos (talk) 22:24, 30 November 2024 (UTC)