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Post by exoticimports on Nov 18, 2014 11:00:08 GMT -8
Reminds me of a lovely lady I once met, Sally Warren. She was a real trooper, love to be in the field collecting butterflies. Her son Andrew is a known entomologist and very active with LepSoc.
Chuck
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Post by nomad on Nov 18, 2014 12:23:06 GMT -8
I have read Cheesman's account of those strange lights in the mountains of Papua, she never as John mentions attributed them to extinct Pterosaurs. Here is what she said - " Weather had been very sultry, with thunderstorms every night, though not actually near Mondo. But the sky was unusually clear, with forked lightning all about Mt Yule. No insects came to the screen, and I was spending some time on the little veranda gazing into the distant monotone of ranges when flashes leapt out from the purple, flat landscape. First a lingering flash, just below the horizon, lasting a few seconds; then they continued at intervals but not at the same. It was a series of flashes which became more and more intriguing, for they were like electric torch -light, as if several human beings were signalling at long distances apart. The chance that they were made by any human was out of the question; they were certainly miles apart, and the ends of the series were at at least a long distances apart. I made a sketch of the horizon and any ranges that stood out from the gloom, then put in the points as accurately as possible where the flashes occurred. These were irregular; at one place three followed one another rather quickly, but sometimes pauses between them were very long." " The next morning, on examining my sketch by daylight, it was clear that all the flashes had appeared along the summit of one range. A certain dark gap was caused by a high peak on a nearer range which had hidden that part. On three separate evenings the flashes appeared, always along the same range, though not where I made my pencil dots. Adamson could not explain it, he had not seen anything like it. It was never explained. I have not found one person to account for it. Papuans had seen them but would not allude to the mysterious lights, even Andamson could not get a word out of them. " That particular range was about three miles away, and two very small villages were on it, but hidden deep in the forest. Where there are villages, however, there will be clearings; and I can only suppose that the flashings were caused by escaping gases, through cracks in the ground. If these were in high forest they would be invisible but if the whole ridge were emitting these flashes they would seen from a distance only on clearings, or broken ground perhaps caused by landslides. That is the only explanation that occurs to me" Of course those that advocate the existence of Aliens in flying saucers have picked up on Cheesman's phenomenon. I have read their accounts. As for Pterosaurs flying around the mountain tops of New Guinea with wingspans of between 20-30ft I have think this idea is just plain silly. There are large butterflies flying around the tops of those mountains ranges and they were all found a long time ago. I am afraid, one of those godless evolutionists.
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Post by jshuey on Nov 18, 2014 13:24:06 GMT -8
As I read the account above – I am reminded that somewhere in the back of my brain is something about SE Asian lightning bugs. That the males of one species form leks on trees, and they flash their lights synchronously. The entire tree lights up? Anyone recall anything like this?? Assuming that I’m not making this up – could this be the explanation for something like Cheesman saw?
If I am making it up – perhaps I could do a wiki page for the creation folks…
John
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Post by jshuey on Nov 18, 2014 13:26:07 GMT -8
Reminds me of a lovely lady I once met, Sally Warren. She was a real trooper, love to be in the field collecting butterflies. Her son Andrew is a known entomologist and very active with LepSoc. Chuck I'm pretty sure that Sally is still in the present tense... At least I hope so. John
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Post by exoticimports on Nov 18, 2014 16:25:11 GMT -8
Reminds me of a lovely lady I once met, Sally Warren. She was a real trooper, love to be in the field collecting butterflies. Her son Andrew is a known entomologist and very active with LepSoc. Chuck I'm pretty sure that Sally is still in the present tense... At least I hope so. John I meant "was" as in the time I spent with her. I sure hope she's doing well! I've not corresponded with her in a long time.
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Post by leptraps on Nov 18, 2014 17:28:27 GMT -8
I think the lighting bugs on a tree was in the last Indiana Jones movie. I am going to watch it now. Or was it a Harry Potter movie?? I will let you know.
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Post by leptraps on Nov 20, 2014 18:35:20 GMT -8
I found it, I knew it was a movie: The Original "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
Also, I think that is the same stuff that line the interiors of Politician Brains.
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Post by jshuey on Nov 21, 2014 9:14:25 GMT -8
I found it, I knew it was a movie: The Original "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
....... Haven't seen it or the other movies. I did spend toooooo many hours listening to Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the center of the earth", but any wierd flashes of light cannot be attributed to lightning bugs during those mental excusions. go here for what I remember . But based on the location of these fireflies - along rivers and in mangroves, and the rapidiness with which they fire - they can't be Cheesman's strange lights... j
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Post by nomad on Nov 21, 2014 9:57:36 GMT -8
I agree Cheesman's strange lights were certainly not made by the Beetles from the family Lampyridae, commonly known as Fireflies or Lightning Bugs. She would have been aware of those insects. Can't see the video for some strange reason in the U.K.
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Post by exoticimports on Nov 21, 2014 13:05:39 GMT -8
Of course those that advocate the existence of Aliens in flying saucers have picked up on Cheesman's phenomenon. You're not kidding. They were all over me like kids on candy. All you have to do is write something that looks odd and the ET researcher's search engines find it and voila you've got mail! On the other hand, natives told me all about a UFO that would appear rather regularly. Once they explained it- which they observed often from 100 meters or so and in great detail- it became absolutely clear that what they saw was a helicopter. Except, it was silent, and we all knew helicopters are not silent. Until the Bin Laden raid, that is. Now I know where they tested these stealth helicopters and who they were. And it explains a lot of the UFO gibberish I'd read about the area. Hey, watch this: SHUEY BELIZE UFO SASQUATCH CHUPACABRAS That should keep somebody busy after the UFO search engines find it! LOL. Sorry. Chuck
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