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Post by kumfish on Jul 17, 2008 7:52:25 GMT -6
:)We made our first trip up a couple weeks ago and our expextations where pretty high. Actually it was the 5th of July so it was packed! When we first pulled up almost immediately you could see the white light at the top of the hill. this changed from a dimm light to a very bright light and then it would slowly fade out and would be gone. We also would see a smaller red light which would sometimes split into two lights. Oddly enough these light would sort of spin around each other. We too decided to walk all the way down the trail and over the creek and walked all the way down to the end to where the trail splits. We constantly kept checking in front and behind us but could never see anything unless we where back at the road block. Interestingly, people at the begining could see the light the entire time, while we could see nothing. Could this be due to the angle or eyesight level? We walked to the highest points we could find down the trail and could never see any lights or reflections of lights or car lights or car sounds further down the trail. One point I will make is as cars showed up back at the parking spot (we are still down the trail),and there must have been 40 cars that night, the entire area between the trees would light up from the head lights casting shadows all over the area. This never happend from the light we could see back from the viewing area. I'm an optomist but play a very good devils advocate. *** :-/My conclusion is this. After looking at the maps and satellite images, Robins Pond Road is mostly going North West. As far as roads off that way that could be in line with it, which one could we be seeing? I only see dirt roads and fire lanes. It would have to be a highway to sustain the amount of traffic needed to keep this optical illusion going ALL NIGHT LONG. This road would have to be very flat or at the peek of a very flat ridge coming right at out vantage point as the white light we saw would move around a little back and forth, become very bright and then fade out. I just can't see headlights acting like that. When this light became brighter people woud say "it's getting closer". I just saw it as getting brighter but not closer. It did not appear to get higher or lower in level but at times would sort of bounce around?. I will say that this light became so bright at times that it would have to be close enough to hear a car it that is what it was. Each time we saw the light do something we would ask each other what they where seeing so we could agree we saw the same thing to rule out our eyes playing tricks. Each time the observations where the same. That night I did not see something that I could completely say was unexplainable. I will say that the lights we saw appeared more like focused or balls of light. The red ones where smaller, like tail lights and the white was bigger and brighter like a headlight. I would have loved to see the light come up in front of us or float around us but that didn't happen that night. We left not knowing what to think. I will say I have a hard time buying the car theory as I can't imagine the UP in that area has that much constant traffic ALL NIGHT LONG. I can say that we left not knowing what to think. What we saw did not seem like it couls have been headlights but then anything is possible. My father -in-law has been up a couple time this year and had one occasion where that same white light became very bright and actual came up within 50' of where the group that night was standing. Maybe the night we went has too many people, I don't know. I just know I left wanting to see more and have that experience that alot of people have seen that makes them total believers. Go see it if you have a chance.  |
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