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Post by Soapmonkey on Nov 4, 2005 10:56:50 GMT -6
Last night our college group at church piled in the church van and drove out to the Paulding light. We brought multiple cameras and a desire to get to the bottom of it. Most of us had not been there before, but one person had been there 20 times in the last years. We saw the light many times. Some of us walked down the valley path. We could not see the light from the path, due to the lower terrain dropping us below the horizon. However, if we walked up a slight rise on the right, we could see the light from there as well (but at one point if I moved my head down six inches, the light would disapear). Our theory, as indicated by other entries, was that it was headlights and tail lights. It was simply too coincidental for the light to be both white and red, with the red lights always on the RIGHT of the white lights (as in a road). We decided to find out for sure. We left two people behind, and everyone else got into the van and headed for highway 45 (which is the road people claimed that caused the light). Our plan was to drive with our hazard lights on, and when we found a stretch of highway that looked likely, we would turn our headlights off and on. We did just that. We stayed on 45 until we passed Paulding yet were not yet so far as Bruce's Crossing. We suddenly came upon the likely stretch of highway. It was a long, straight stretch of high eleveation, with several valleys and dips that accounted for the light disappearing and appearing. The highway also had the same powerline running along it as runs down the rightaway where you see the light. Looking up the powerlines, we could see a blinking cell tower which was behind us as we viewed the light from the "the spot." This showed that we lined up perfectly. Assuming we were in the right spot, we flashed our headlights repeatedly with our hazards running. When we got back to the site, our friends had seen us, both the flashing hazard lights and our blinking headlights. Mystery solved. What is funnier though was that as soon as we left "the sight" another car pulled up. They saw us blinking our headlights, and were really captivated. They refused to believe our friends initially that it was us. But...in the end apparenly they believed them. The guy was a lawyer, who offered to "represent you in court," whatever that means. So. The Paulding light is merely headlights. Any really weird light displays are probably from locals who flash their lights strangely when they drive that stretch as we did. Other phenomina probably are from drugs and alcohol combines with expectations to see something really strange.
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