Subject: Here is what I saw and believe. 2,450 views

[bagged4u]

I dont believe the hogwash about it being Car headlights or tail lights. I flew to the UP and got to finally see the light with my girlfriend who lives/d there (she moved to Georgia with me) and has seen it many times, in June.

Seeing it with my own eyes after having it described to me was finally justification for the descriptions I had read and heard about it.

I cannot say for certain what the light is or represents but I am "certain" that it is not car headlights or tail lights. Not being from around there, it was definitely hard to orient myself and directions of highways, etc. around the area. From my lack of knowledge of the area it could be said that then, it "could have" been a highway far off in the distance that we were seeing.

However, I found a site that alleviated that allegation by giving me a satellite view of the area in question. There are no roads that could possibly be seen from the angle and direction of the "view point" at the guardrail.

I will post pictures of this satellite image in the next few days. I need to take it into a program and circle the area in question. You all will see what I am seeing. There are roads, yes, way off in the distance, but they are running the opposite direction of the way that most of you naysayers are saying its running, or would have to run for the headlights to be seen, especially at the intensity that they are seen at.

The light is intense and stays that way for sometimes minutes. The only way for this to happen is for a car to stop on the road that is miles away and turn directly facing the viewpoint. As well, the taillights of the cars could only be seen if they were facing the opposite direction...literally the cars would be facing either side of the road, not directly down the highway as they would be driving.

I cant say about all of the stories that go along with it, I neither experienced or witnessed anything beyond the ordinary, besides the light itself, while there, except for one curiousity that I noticed. I am not sure how many of you paid attention to the night sky above the area, but I did notice several satellites that followed a direct path over the area. I am assuming they are satellites because they are as I have always seen them. Like pinpoint lights, almost like stars that are moving across the sky.

They were following a path that seemed to go right down over the light and down the road where you park to watch the light. I understand this is probably pure coincidence, but it was something that I noticed and hadnt read any of you mentioning it.

Again, I will post a pic of the area in question in the next few days and if you do not believe that my image is legitimate, or whatever, the link to the site can be found by going to google.com and typing in satellite images. I believe the site is called TerraServer.com...I may be wrong, but once on the site, you can type in specific places and it will give you a few different photos or panning ability on wide area map photos to let you see whats around watersmeet, michigan. Paulding is much too far away to have headlights on a car be as intense as they are viewed at the viewing site.

Corey

Georgia Resident and Yooper Visitor

[a local]

Corey...just so you know...there is a road that leads directly to the far barrier where the light is. If you are coming from the viewing sight down robins pond road and turn left up towards Paulding, it is the first real road on the left. Do not take the 4 wheeler trails...it's a bad idea. Anyways, you take this road and it will come to a T. If you turn left you go straight to the barrier...if you take a right...well....I don't know where that one goes..but some freaky lady *~*if you've met her you know who I mean y'all*~* said something about portals back there...so watch out. You can see the headlights from on that road...however, it's just a dirt road and not used for anything except people like me who go and chase the light. I totally agree with you that the carlight theory is bogus though. The spot where the paulding light floats is topographically higher then the spot where the headlights on US 45 supposedly come from and it is higher then the viewing point so taking into consideration the contour of the earth...it's virtually impossible to see headlights off of 45 which does parallel Robins Pond road for a little while. And besides...the light changes color right..? sometimes red, white, blue, even orange. Now to all those people who think that it's just headlights....I don't know how yours work...but my headlights are white and my taillights are red...NOT orange and yellow...besides....if I'm driving towards you you don't see my taillights....unless of course I'm chasing you in reverse ...srry...long story *saturday september 25th* shoulda been there...funny funny night...good call though corey...way to be a believer!!!

chelsea

[bagged4u]

chelsea,
My girlfriend made me aware of the roads that you were referring to and I found them on the satellite map, however the position of the area that the light is coming from is in a different angle than could be viewed at the "viewing site".
The photo that I have will explain it and I will try to post it tomorrow if possible. Hwy 45 does parallel the site and area but if you see this satellite photo, the highway takes a very smooth but wide right away from the "light site". You are correct as well from my one time of being there that the topographical elevation of the hill on the other side or the land that runs sideways to the light origination makes it impossible further to see any light from Hwy. 45.
This is the biggest thing for me. The light begins as a pinpoint...barely visible at all. Sure, this could be easily be thought of as a car coming into a view from a long ways off. Anyone who has driven on any long stretch of road has seen this at night. However, two lights are definitely visible when a car comes into view like that. It appears very much like an airliner (jet) that switches its landing lights on and gets into its traffic pattern over a major city. One could easily believe there is a flying car in the sky. At a great distance, 50 miles or more, the lights do appear as one. On a car, I have seen two headlights distinctively at a range of 7 miles and the lights were on bright. (Mid-Bay Bridge over Choctawhachee Bay in Destin Floriday).
At such a distance the lights on bright were still distinguishable as two lights. Not one light. The primary mystery light shows completely as one light (the pinpoint until it becomes super intense) and the red light which is a seperate light when I saw it moved from the light itself down to the lower right and back underneath the light to where it was almost positioned as a North and South on a compass.
For a car headlight to be seen from the point of origin as the "pinpoint" to the maximum brightness, as I witnessed as 4 and a half minute display at the longest showing that night of June 12th, there would have to be 4 and a half minutes of road that could be seen from the viewing point. There are areas showing on the satellite photo that would explain that. 4 and a half minutes is roughly 4.6 miles at 60 mph. The people that believe that there is a stretch of highway that can be seen from the viewing point that is 4.6 miles long are either just very closed minded or they have no since of time and distance.
For this to occur, if there was a stretch of road that long, being the primary light that I saw, the car would have to be traveling 15 mph the entire way and on a straightway that is nearly dead on to the viewing site for the brightness of the car lights to get anywhere near the intensity of the light that is seen when it goes into maximum brilliance.
Personally, I havent seen anything that is made by man that has the absolute lumens that the light displays. Put the drunken practical jokers that like to walk down the road to get a better look and then they flash their puny flashlights back towards the onlookers and a person gets a good idea that if the light itself is at least two miles away and it has enough power to cast reflections on a car that a manmade light is not the probable cause of the light. The closest thing that I have seen is a movie projector light. Sure they arent the brightest lights that are made, but the intense beam of light that comes out is blinding when viewed straight on.
Thats how the mystery light made me feel. Blind to everything around me and it.

My girlfriends future brother n law took a video of the light last March during winter and zoomed in on the light. Headlights were not remotely shown in the video. The light as he increased the zoom became brighter and bigger of course, but then the other colors became apparent. There were mixtures of blues, reds, greens, yellows and purples that danced together forming a diamond shape laid on its side. These lights seemed to pulse out from the center light like the electricity trails that you see on the "fun lights" at WalMart where you touch the ball and the electricity trails up into the fingers?
The thing also was spinning rapidly, like a pulsar, a star that spins incredibly fast and therefore the light it emits is in supercharged intense pulses. I know that the light is not car headlights and that someone is not standing on a hill "over there" with a 1 million watt light flashing people that are watching.
Chelsea, it would have been awesome to attend when you were there as it sounds like you did have a great time. Maybe when me and my girlfriend get up there in December we can all meet there or something. Im bringing binoculars and a telescope with me so I can see the headlights that all these other people claim to be seeing. I know they arent there.

Corey
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PS. I am not aware of the old lady you were talking about. lol...can you explain?

[a local]

Aight Corey,

This lady, Janet, she's a trip and a half. Personally, the only reason I dislike her is because she told me that I'm stupid, but hey...you never know right? But she comes out to the light in a reddish explorer or maybe it's a durango, I'm not positive. She's I'd guess to be late 40's early 50's but it's hard to tell. She appears to be one of those people who aged fast due to excessive chain smoking. She sits cross legged in the back of this explorer chain smoking and trys to scare people with freaky 'authentic pictures' that she has of the light. Silly as it sounds...some of the pictures she has are from a spot called Huntsmen's Bridge. I've never been there, but a friend of mine has and recognized the pictures right away. Anyway, she sits back there and tells people how all they see is headlights and that the 'real light' isn't out there. If you actually listen she has some wierd stories. My two favorites are about how she had a miscarriage of her baby at the light and when the light chased her and she had to scramble over the tops of the seats in her explorer to drive away. If you saw her, you'd see that her scrambling is near a physical disability because she's quite large. I know this sounds quite mean, but she is very offensive to people out there. Once, last weekend, when I was trying to explain to a few tourists about the topographical lay of the land she freaked out at me because as she said, I 'forgot to take into consideration the curvature of the earth.' Silly me, how could I forget something that important?? lol yeah right. You should see her sometimes though, it's quite an experience. Just do yourself a favor and don't let the whole 'paulding light experience' be ruined. She almost did it for me because she won't accept anyone else's theory because she's always right. And by the by...if you are interested in pottery, she also teaches ceramics. And of course be sure to watch out for the portals out there. She said you might get sucked into one.....I tend not to believe that one though. This isn't Area 51 after all. Oh well...I say believe what you want....I still think it's real. But yeah, check her out...it's a good time.

Chelsea

[Ricster]

The road that goes beyond the barrier (on the other side of the ravine washout) goes back a few miles, takes a wide curve, and ends up back on 45. There is one house back there (that I remember) with a yard light...but I don't think that's our light.

We used to take that road then go up a trail to the line poles, then walk from those to a cliff with swampland below it.

[Steve M]

Hi. Im corey's soon to be ..um...or his womans soon to be brother in law. Anyway I was breifly mentioned in the first post.lol. I took the footage of the light and zoomed in really close with no blur. Perfect video. Anyways....The light came out that night and faded out. But the 2nd time it came out that night it shot out from the right hand side of the trees at the end of the road, past the barrier and kinda glided for a min. before just sitting there glowing. Does it normaly fly around like that? To keep with the topic everything Corey says I agree with,...Im just a camera man
Steve

[runner]

i am surprised that you got footage! the creepy thing about me is that i taped it and nothing showed up. my sister in law taped it and nothing showed up on hers either. however, my student's family has a cottage up there and don't believe it so i told them to tape it and you will see nothing on the tape to prove my point but when i saw the tape they had perfect eerie footage that was perfect. it looked exactly like the real thing.

[JJ]

Duuuude, I saw that creepy woman's "authentic pictures"...phucked up, that's for sure!!

I've seen the "real light" about 6 or 7 times. Creeps me out every time.

[chevylovinyoopergirl]

Thats funny you guys are talking about that lady that sits in her vehicle and smokes butts...she must be out there like EVERY night or something...my boyfriend and a friend of mine went out there for the first time ever on November 11th, 2005 when it was seriously like 20 degrees out at like 12:30 at night...and there she was! So funny! lol

[Haily]

a said:

Corey...just so you know...there is a road that leads directly to the far barrier where the light is. If you are coming from the viewing sight down robins pond road and turn left up towards Paulding, it is the first real road on the left. Do not take the 4 wheeler trails...it's a bad idea. Anyways, you take this road and it will come to a T. If you turn left you go straight to the barrier...if you take a right...well....I don't know where that one goes..but some freaky lady *~*if you've met her you know who I mean y'all*~* said something about portals back there...so watch out. You can see the headlights from on that road...however, it's just a dirt road and not used for anything except people like me who go and chase the light. I totally agree with you that the carlight theory is bogus though. The spot where the paulding light floats is topographically higher then the spot where the headlights on US 45 supposedly come from and it is higher then the viewing point so taking into consideration the contour of the earth...it's virtually impossible to see headlights off of 45 which does parallel Robins Pond road for a little while. And besides...the light changes color right..? sometimes red, white, blue, even orange. Now to all those people who think that it's just headlights....I don't know how yours work...but my headlights are white and my taillights are red...NOT orange and yellow...besides....if I'm driving towards you you don't see my taillights....unless of course I'm chasing you in reverse ...srry...long story *saturday september 25th* shoulda been there...funny funny night...good call though corey...way to be a believer!!!

chelsea

The headlights are on a hill, they are going to be higher!

[Salvageman]

I live in the Muskegon, MI area and have deer hunted several times near the Paulding Light. The first time I saw the light was before they put up the guard rails and split the road in the early 1990's. The locals claim the light was there before there were roads and power lines. Some of the local indians claim it's some indian spirit. We were on our way back to our deer camp at Robbins Pond when I saw what I thought were headlights coming over the hill. I pulled over because the hill was steep and narrow and I did not want to meet another vehicle on the hill. One of the guys with me asked what I stopped for. I told him and he said I would be waiting a lifetime because we were looking at the "Great Paulding Light". I backed up and he showed me the sign explaining the light. Some of the locals say that a scientist came and studied the light. His theory is that it is a reflection of the sun over the horizon on some lake or shiny surface sort of like a mirror. That is also why he could not determine the source of the light. It also explains why people have been seeing it for over 200 years long before the white man ever first saw the light. I have not visited the light in about 6 years now so I don't know about the rumor that the light has not been seen in 3 years. I do know that you can sometime see the light from the sign and guard rail area on certain nights but to positively see it you have to go around the guard rail and walk to the top of the hill directly in front of you.

[Specialbuddy]

Corey, what you have seen in paulding is car lights. The only reason you think it's some unexplainable thing is because you don't want people to call you stupid for coming all the way from Georgia to see car lights. As for the curvature of the earth, IT'S 5 MILES!!! The earth has a polar radius of 3,443.917 nmi. If you actually think that 5 miles will make that much of a difference then you must be living on another planet. Drive to the Seney stretch, wait til you see lights and time how long it takes for them to pass you. Use your head and do some math(if you know how) and figure out how far they might have traveled based on how fast the average person travels on the Seney(80 mph j/k ;D). If you see something in the woods or down by the creek then I believe you. But saying, "dur, car lights don't shine that's bright and dats far dur", then I'm going to say BS. They have small led flash lights these days that can be seen from at least a mile away. I'm guess all of these people have never driven a car at night and have never seen head lights. That's sad.

[THE TRUTH]

Exactly!!! But the stretch on hwy 45 is 7 miles away. we drove there last night to try to convince everyone that the light that everyone thinks is the paulding light is not the paulding light. We drove to the stretch on hwy 45 and just as you can see the lights from the view point coming over the hill on 45, you can see the cars AT the view point FROM the stretch on 45. THE LIGHTS LOOK THE EXACT SAME!!! However their is a real paulding light. Look below the hill at the view point, in the woods, etc. The real light will scare the nuts out of you. So have fun in Georgia, till next time you come to see THE REAL THING!!!

[Dis Tiller]

Exactly, it is an awesome sight for sure. It just kills me how people can read about sightings being extraordinary, or absolutely frighttening and something people remember for life and still think that it is car lights we saw. How dumb would you have to be to see a car light and crap your pants from it or think about that car light you saw that day for the rest of your life. It is hilarious to me they can be that pretentious to think they are so much smarter than tens of thousands of people.

[Dis Tiller]

Oh and special buddy. The last time i saw the light it lit up so d**n bright that me and my two passengers had to wait a couple minutes before our eyes worked well enough to drive out of there. When you see what i have seen you can come on here and astound us with your insight but until then you are commenting on something you know nothing about.