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Mirage puzzles experts in southeast China
By Zhang Xuanchen |
July 12, 2010, Monday
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EXPERTS in southeast China are investigating a possible mirage after many residents saw more than 50 vertical light rays appearing in the southeastern sky at midnight on Saturday.
A witness surnamed Wang said he saw about five silver lightbeams hanging low in the sky from Huandao Road in Xiamen City, Fujian Province at 11pm. Over the next three hours, longer and clearer lines turned up, twinkling in the sky.
The beams disappeared at about 2am, reported the Strait Herald Newspaper today.
At least 10 posters on an Internet forum yesterday said they saw the show.
The Xiamen meteorological observatory said it didn't detect any phenomenon and had no idea what exactly it was. The observatory denied it was a meteor shower.
An expert surnamed Pan with the Provincial Astronomical Society said it might be a mirage, which was an optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of rays through the clouds or water to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky.
More geographical evidence is needed to confirm whether it was a mirage, said Pan.
A witness surnamed Wang said he saw about five silver lightbeams hanging low in the sky from Huandao Road in Xiamen City, Fujian Province at 11pm. Over the next three hours, longer and clearer lines turned up, twinkling in the sky.
The beams disappeared at about 2am, reported the Strait Herald Newspaper today.
At least 10 posters on an Internet forum yesterday said they saw the show.
The Xiamen meteorological observatory said it didn't detect any phenomenon and had no idea what exactly it was. The observatory denied it was a meteor shower.
An expert surnamed Pan with the Provincial Astronomical Society said it might be a mirage, which was an optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of rays through the clouds or water to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky.
More geographical evidence is needed to confirm whether it was a mirage, said Pan.
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