Ghost light

Ghost lights are lights in the air that are not well understood by scientists. There are few reports of ghost light sightings. Ghost lights can be close to ground or in the sky. Ghost lights close to ground are commonly called "will o' the wisp" while ghost lights in the sky are often called UFOs. There are very different kinds of ghost lights: some resemble balls of light, others look like flame, and some look like a bright cloud. Many ghost lights move.

Different cultures have understood ghost lights differently. People believed that they are dragons, spirits or ghosts. Today some believe they are spaceships. There are many theories about what ghost lights are. Some people say they are methane gas that comes from ground and burns in the air. Others say they are electric things like ball lightning. The fact that some animals and fungus glows may explain some ghost lights.

Examples
 Australia 

 Min Min lights

 Finland 

 Paasselkä devil

 Norway 

 Hessdalen light

 Canada 

 Baie Chaleur Fireship
 St. Louis Light

 Sweden 

 Martebo lights

 Thailand 

 Mekong lights (Nekha lights)

 Italy 

 Fuoco Fatuo

 United States 

 Arkansas 

 Crossett Light
 Gurdon Light

 North Carolina 

 Brown Mountain Lights
 Maco Light

 Georgia 

 Surrency Spooklight

 Indiana 

 Moody's Light

 Michigan (Upper Peninsula) 

 The Paulding Light

 Missouri 

 Ozark Spooklight

 Oklahoma 

 Spooklight (same as Hornet Ghost Light, at the Oklahoma–Missouri line)

 Texas 

 Bragg Road Ghost Light (Light of Saratoga)
 Marfa Lights

 Utah 

 Skinwalker Ranch

 Virginia 

 Cohoke Light

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