Ghostly Grays
Reports such as this one (newly-posted, and which can be found at the website of Brian Vike’s Canadian-based HBCC UFO Research group) have always intrigued me. As the witness in this case noted: “Last friday evening, the 23rd of December at 5.35 pm GMT, I was driving with a friend from Letterkenny to Doochany through Glenveigh National Park and as we descended towards Lough Barra I could see a big blue circular light about a metre or more in diameter positioned on the rock face of Crockfadda at about 330 metres up the mountain.”
For some weird reason, many UFO researchers are loathe to investigate reports of so-called Ghost Lights - or Earth Lights, as they are also known. Presumably because, in all likelihood, they have nothing to do with literal alien beings and nuts-and-bolt spacecraft.
Well, my response to that is: so what? The Ghost Lights are certainly unidentified - and they are flying, too (or floating may well be a better description); and, in my book, that makes them UFOs by literal definition. We could actually learn a lot from this type of report - and particularly those where the Ghost Lights seem to display evidence of (at the very least) a form of rudimentary intelligence.
Coincidentally, in the last issue of Fortean Times (issue 218), there appeared an excellent article by Ghost Light authority Paul Devereux titled Seeing the Light. While it is quite clear that some of the Lights are a not-fully-understood by-product of stresses and strains in the Earth’s crust, in other instances there is that nagging, and intriguing, theory that the Ghost Llights may represent a type of life-form.
In his article, Devereux notes that if such reports can be considered credible, then at least some of the Lights may be demonstrating a “playful, animal-like curiosity.” Expanding on this issue, he adds: “But this is a forbidden topic. For one thing, it raises the tricky question of the nature of consciousness…To even suggest that consciousness might manifest in geophysical contexts as well as biological ones is to go beyond the pale. Nevertheless, laboratory studies in Romania have revealed cell-like forms within plasmas that can replicate, grow, and communicate…”
And there’s more, too.
In May 2006, it was announced that after decades of secretly investigating UFOs, the British Ministry of Defense had finally come to the conclusion that aliens were not visiting Britain. The MoD’s assertions were revealed within the pages of a formerly-classified document that had been commissioned in 1996 and that was completed in February 2000.
Titled the Condign Report, the 465-page document demonstrated how British air defense experts had decided that UFO sightings were the result of “natural but relatively rare phenomena” such as ball-lightning and “atmospheric plasmas.” UFOs, wrote the still-unknown author of the MoD’s report, were “of no defense significance.”
Indeed, the MoD expanded further: “The main conclusion of the Study is that the sighting reports provide nothing of value to the DIS [Defense Intelligence Staff] in our assessment of threat weapon systems. Taken together with other evidence, we believe that many of the sightings can be explained as: mis-reporting of man-made vehicles; natural but not unusual phenomena, and natural but relatively rare and not completely understood phenomena.”
UFO researchers Dr. David Clarke and Gary Anthony (in a lengthy article titled The British MoD Study: Project Condign that appeared in the Vol. 30, No. 4, August 2006 issue of the International UFO Reporter) commented on the MoD’s study and noted the following:
“Mr. X [the title given to the unknown MoD-sponsored author by Clarke and Anthony] goes even further by drawing upon the controversial research and conclusions of research carried out at Laurentian University by Michael Persinger. He finds merit in the theory that plasmas or earthlights may explain a range of close-encounter and even ‘alien abduction’ experiences. The report says that on rare occasions plasmas can cause responses in the temporal-lobe area of the human brain, leading observers to suffer extended memory retention and repeat experiences. This the report’s author believes, may be ‘a key factor in influencing the more extreme reports…[that] are clearly believed by the victims.’”
And while it needs to be noted that Clarke and Anthony do not personally subscribe to the above conclusions, the results of the Condign Report lead me to ask a series of intriguing questions: what if the MoD is at least partially correct and that this “not completely understood phenomena” is responsible for alien abduction-style accounts? But what if the MoD is wrong in its conclusion that this same phenomenon is a wholly natural one? What if the “playful, animal-like curiosity” shown by some Earth Lights of the type that Paul Devereux has commented upon is evidence that the Lights are indeed some form of intelligent life?
If the natural state of existence of this intelligence is in the form of a “not completely understood” ball of light, and if they possess perhaps even high-intellect rather than just a rudimentary degree of self-awareness, is it not possible that they might deliberately and consciously affect the human temporal-lobe area to induce alien abduction-style accounts as a means of trying to have some form of one-to-one communication with us in a fashion that we can at least begin to understand? If so, perhaps they are picking up on our cultural beliefs concerning aliens and are manifesting - albeit purely inwardly to the participant - in the guise that we expect them to: namely that of the big-eyed, large-headed alien.
Perhaps that is why, in centuries past, fairy encounters were often reported in association with small balls of light. When belief in fairies was rife, perhaps the intelligences behind the Ghost Llights tapped into that same belief, and subsequently manipulated the subconscious of the witness to ensure that the meeting of minds occurred in a fashion that was acceptable to the cultural beliefs - as well as the mythology - of the people of that era.
Perhaps the Ghost Lights are self-aware, living entities. But maybe, too, they are - in simplistic terms - dreadfully alone and yearning for communication with other intelligent life-forms. Perhaps they are the real aliens, and the ever-present Grays are merely brain-borne images and hallucinations - specifically designed to allow for a kind of one-on-one meeting on relatively common ground that would otherwise be completely incomprehensible to the mind of twenty-first century humankind.
If you are ever lucky enough to see a Ghost Light, don’t run from it or ignore it. Open your mind and see what happens. In its own way, it may just want to say hi….
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Jan 11 2007 
January 11th, 2007 at 9:08 am
That is an interesting theory about ghost lights being connected with aliens, I’m sure some are aliens, but I think the majority of them are just that; ghost lights.
But I seriously can’t believe that these ghost lights would be living entities. But I do believe that some of these ghost lights are the results of lightning hitting the Earth, since I read this:
Lightning balls created in the lab.
I highly recommend the video, I thought it was so wierd, I almost couldn’t believe it. But my bet is that a lot of these ‘ghost lights’ are infact lightning balls.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Annie
I’m sure that as with UFOs, that ghost lights could have several origins. I do find it interesting, however, that there are a number of cases on record where GL’s respond in the presence of people - or where they follow the same “journey” across a particular location.
On the latter point, there is an old British military file declassified back in the 80s that talks about something called the “Dartmoor Floating Light” that was seen regularly following the same, identical route over a number of nights around 1915. In other words, its actions didn’t sound random.
January 11th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
And a lot of the actions and movements of the lights…such as the Bragg Road Ghostlight Rob Riggs talks about in “In the Big Thicket” (Texas)…seem as though they are interacting with the humans who are seeing them…as if there is, indeed, a sentience there.
And, in the case of Big Thicket lights, people have supposedly seen the lights sometimes “morph” into things zooform…even “into” sasquatch-like creatures.
Then again, though, its probably just owls.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Interesting thread, here in Salem Oregon there are repeated “Ghost light” reports just down the street from where I work. In fact I drive past the place every night. Supposedly the light travels from Jori Zahn’s Body Piercing Boutique (and coffee shop), crosses the road and disappears above Sybil’s Omelets. (They have decent omelets and excellent fish and chips.) I look for the damn thing every night but so far I have been disappointed.
The conceit here is that Jori Zahn’s windows are covered with paintings of UFOs, Greys, the Heads of Easter Island, pyramids and other sundry occult imagery.
Maybe I just need to hunker down and investigate it myself. Anyone got a magnometer I can borrow?
January 12th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Bill:
You are spot-on: the manifestation of the “Grays” may be exactly the same as the manifestation of “Bigfoot” in the Big Thicket, as far as the links with the Ghost Lights are concerned.
We may indeed have alien visitors (by alien I mean truly alien to us but not necessarily extraterrestrial), and whether we call them Tulpas, Cormons, thought-forms, or whatever, I believe that many encounters with “ETs” “man-beasts” etc., are directly linked with something that can manifest to us in ways that are culturally acceptable to us.
January 12th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Omelettes, fish and chips and body piercing: at least the Ghost Lights have good taste!
January 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Ghost lights ususally stay in the same place for years, or centuries. Perhaps these “entities” in fact live in those locales, or need whatever energy or conditions are present at the site to manifest in a way that is percieved by us as a light. I am not aware of any abduction-type phenomena associated with ghost light locales, but perhaps different intelligences use different methods to “get through” to our awareness.
January 17th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Since many abductees report being told ecological messages of dire consequences to the Earth unless humanity changes its actions, maybe the primary purpose of the Ghost Lights is to warn mankind about the damage it’s doing to the Earth? Maybe, if the GL’s are indeed intelligent, they’re trying to save the Earth through the only means they know how, i.e. communicating through “abduction” accounts.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Brian
It could be. However, I think that if they were trying to save the earth, and could undertake some form of contact, then why not make their views explicit, instead of just instilling in the abductees images of atomic explosions, etc.?
Of course, it could be that they can only contact us in an abstract fashion and not in a way that we define contact.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I myself have not seen these balls of light or ghost lights. I’ve seen a sasquatch, one of those huge triangle craft that were mainly spotted in britain. These sightings were on Vancouver Island. I have heard of a few ball type craft or lights by a few locals. One was from a friend who was over looking a small lake in town. He heard something like a sonic boom noise and seen this huge ball of light flying through the air; thinking it was a meteor. He said it hit the center of the lake. The weird thing he said it hit the lake with a bang, but it made no ripples in the water. Personally, with all that I’ve heard or seen, this island is not only a hot spot. But one has to question those in power, as our sanity is always at question when it comes to these subjects even if they are real.
January 18th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Sasdave:
You will find Rob Riggs’s book “In the Big Thicket” interesting. It describes numerous cases where Bigfoot and Ghost Light activity have both been seen in the “Big Thicket” area of Texas, and demonstrates a connection. There are a lot of these hot-spot areas like that.