A team of scientists has released video evidence showcasing the famous Brown Mountain Lights in all their glory.

Few UFOs are as legendary as the lights that make appearances over North Carolina’s Brown Mountain. Over the years, this strange phenomenon puzzled experts and amateurs alike and no explanation was in sight. Now we are one step closer to uncovering this mystery, as a team of scientists from the Appalachian State University managed to provide video evidence of this anomalous luminous phenomenon.

Over the past century or so, the popularity of the Brown Mountain lights has steadily increased, as did the incidence of these as of yet unexplained orbs. From ghost lights to ethereal UFOs, multiple explanations have been forwarded but none is conclusive. The only thing that is certain is that the lights are real, appear on a sporadic schedule and disappear just as suddenly as they showed up.

Intrigued by their peculiar behavior, Appalachian State University physicist Daniel Caton assembled a team of equally curious scientists and set up a viewpoint overlooking Brown Mountain. Two cameras were turned on during the night and the video stream was wirelessly sent over to the team’s laboratory back at App State. That was two years ago and since then, the team would pour over every night’s video, hoping to find evidence that could offer an explanation for the unexplained shining orbs.

The two cameras allowed scientists to eliminate false readings such as camera glitches or flares; if an object showed up on just one camera, it could have been an artifact or malfunction. But if it was visible from both angles, the team had reasons to certify its authenticity. On the night of July 16, the team finally caught their first break.

The YouTube description for the video above reads:

“Dusk-to-dawn 30-second images. Mostly cloudy, especially early, with early lightning. Some clearing late, with stars rising at angles ** ANOMALISTIC light appears high above ridge, at ~ 0:18, 0:25, 0:34, and 0:43 in. This appears on BOTH CAMERAS and does not change position over the timer interval, meaning it is not a star. It is too high to be a town light.”

The video above is the first recording where both cameras picked up an object at the exact same time. Though excited, the scientists meticulously analyzed the images and determined the object was indeed physical, or at least visible. The Brown Mountain Lights are still there.

The first written mention of the bright orbs comes from a 1913 article published in the Charlotte Observer.

“The mysterious light that is seen just above the horizon almost every night form Rattlesnake Knob, near Cold Spring, on the Morganton road, about seven miles from here, is still baffling all investigators. All theories as to its origin or nature have either been exploded or fall through from lack of evidence to support them.”

Back then, the lights would appear quite regularly and the U.S. Geological Survey even sent experts to investigate. They concluded that the lights were caused by a combination of car and locomotive headlights, strange air currents and other assorted phenomena. But when a flood struck the area in 1916, the strange orbs kept appearing. The flood had been devastating, with more than 50 homes completely destroyed, railroads damaged and covered in debris, bridges collapsed and swept away along with the roads and power lines. With no headlights and no electricity in the area, a different explanation for the Brown Mountain luminous phenomenon had to be found.

In 1922 a second investigation was attempted and could only find natural causes for the lights, although those who saw them insisted the orbs showed intelligent behavior and certainly weren’t optical illusions.

From will-o’-the-wisp to ghost of an innocent woman to swamp gas and giant fireflies, many strange theories attempted to solve the enigma but none offered definitive proof. And how could one do that? Besides photographic and video evidence, nothing can be done; you can’t trap a glowing orb that may or may not be from this world.

More than 100 years have passed since people first began hearing about the weird lights on Brown Mountain and our knowledge on the subject is still slim. Perhaps videos like this one will arouse the interest of the scientific world and one day some real investigations can be done.

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At the ECETI Ranch near Mount Adams in Washington state, James Gilliland has been gathering people and calling in Starships for many years. He has had thousands of guests visit the ranch, from filmmakers like Danny Dyer to other celebrities, military generals, scientists, and many many skeptics.

Almost every night at the ECETI Ranch, so called “UFOs” fly-by, flare up, and even fly into and out of the Mountain itself. Even the most intense skeptics tend to change their tune after experiences at the Ranch.

Coming up September 29th to October 2nd, you can join a series of speakers at ECETI Ranch and experience extraterrestrial contact yourself.

Visit the ECETI Site to register for this event, which is hosted by Laura Eisenhower, the great granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower. Speakers include Adam Apollo, a well known leadership ambassador who has spoken at the White House and United Nations on the future of human technology and consciousness, and James Gilliland, who has led thousands of groups in viewing extraterrestrial craft in many places, including a series of events in Australia.

Check out some of the experiences at ECETI and see some of the sightings for yourself in the Contact Has Begun video on Gaia.

This is the story of James Gilliland. From UFOs and ETs, to orbs and near death encounters, James has led an incredible life. He tells us his personal story, leading us through account after account of encounters with other-worldly beings of all types. His story not only tells the journey of one man through an incredible life, it also tells the story of a mankind to come.

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The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most famous case of mass destruction because it was greatly popularized by mankind’s vested interest in dinosaurs. While the scientific consensus is that no dinosaur survived to our times, there are multiple cryptid sightings that would suggest at least some of them might still be around. Below you will find five of the strangest sightings related to this subject.

Some 66 million years before our time, the Earth was struck by a 6 mile wide space rock that was going 45,000 miles per hour. The devastating impact was more than two million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, the biggest explosive device mankind ever built.

But it wasn’t the blunt force of the hot that killed off the majority of our planet’s animal life. In the period following the asteroid hit, the world was engulfed in flames, shook by earthquakes and drowned in emissions from volcanic eruptions. The unrelenting global acid rain that followed, coupled with the atmospheric ash blocking sunlight resulted in plant life being greatly diminished. As the plant eaters died, they determined the fall of the entire food chain, rapidly causing the extinction of the behemoths that ruled the planet for over 160 million years. The dinosaurs were gone forever. Or were they?

Mokele Mbembe

The deepest river in the world is the African Congo and the surrounding jungle is the world’s second largest. Modern humans have explored only a fraction of the Congo rainforest so it is pretty clear that there are countless secrets still left to discover.

Since times immemorial, tribes who make their home in the Congolese forests have been religiously passing down a legend that makes them shiver. They unwillingly talk about Mokele Mbembe, a beast whose name literally means “the one who stops the flow of rivers.” Tribe members who swear they’ve seen it describe a fearsome creature with the body of an elephant, a long tail and a neck ending with a small head. Although the cryptid feeds on plants, it is said to be highly territorial and therefore aggressive.

Mokele Mbembe prefers resting its cumbersome body in deep waters and would sometimes flip over and drag under any boat that dared cross certain river bends.

This description fits an animal that resembles extinct sauropods such as the Diplodocus orArgentinosaurus.

The earliest expedition to go in search of this fabled beast took place in 1776. While the members of the expedition failed to discover the creature, they did bring back caster prints. The circumference of Mokele Mbembe’s paws measured over three feet, lending further credence to the idea that it is indeed a dinosaur. Over the course of the following centuries, more than 30 official expeditions attempted to capture the cryptid or its image, but they could neither prove nor dismiss its existence. All the while, the tribal stories about Mokele Mbembe still strike campfire fear in the hearts of those who d by Revcontent

Pterosaurs or winged lizards were commonplace in the world of dinosaurs. Their specialized wings allowed them to traverse vast distances of the Cretaceous without expending too much effort. The largest pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan the size of a bus and could easily pick up a human and swallow him whole.

Between 2001 and 2002, several Pennsylvanians forwarded reports detailing their encounters with a huge, long-necked flying creature that resembled a bird but had one key distinction: it lacked feathers. The witnesses description was reminiscent of a wave of sightings that occurred in Texas  in 1978 and 1982.

Similar sightings have been reported halfway around the world, in the Congo River basin, where locals told tales of a creature making its nest in the high hills. The large flier reportedly had such a bad attitude towards boats and their passengers that it was nicknamed Kongamato, meaning the Overturner of Boats. It was most active at dusk, when it probably went out to feed. Cryptozoologists are convinced ts smooth skin and teeth-packed beak are a clear indicator that the animal could very well be a pterosaur.

A 1988 expedition that went looking for the enigmatic creature turned up nothing except for a quick glimpse that revealed a huge black shadow with white stripes gliding in the distance. Short as it was, the sighting was enough to cement the idea that the majestic Quetzalcoatlus might not be so extinct after all.

Giant Snakes

No, snakes weren’t dinosaurs but they were already here when the dinosaurs arrived. And while palaeontologists haven’t been able to figure out what metabolism dinosaurs had, we do know that snakes slither the same way they did 200 million years ago. But they did grow bigger. Way bigger.

The largest snake to have undulated his body on the face of the Earth was Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which is synonym with 40 feet of pure, constricting terror. That is the biggest specimen according to fossil records that were discovered, but we would be perfectly safe in assuming they could grow even longer.

As over-the-top as that might seem, the South American continent is home to legends of even larger snakes. The Amazon’s murky waters could, in theory, offer them the cover to reach over 150 feet in length. Locals call the giant snake Yacumama, Mother of the Water. No official sighting exists but those who’ve seen it swear on their lives the animal is real.

The longest recorded Anaconda measured roughly 25 feet in length but that doesn’t even come close to the Yacumama’s reported size. If rumors of its existence are true, this serpent could be an undiscovered species of Anaconda or even a surviving T. cerrejonensis. Either way, it doesn’t look like it enjoys publicity so we might never get to see one.

Ngoubou

Stories about this African cryptid have only surfaced in recent years, and only by accident. While researching legends about Mokele Mbembe in Cameroon, two cryptozoologists heard a rumor about another massive beast. Members of a local tribe said it footsteps made the earth tremble and its roar scared off predators.

Although smaller in size, the animal was well equipped and aggressive enough to fight rhinos and elephants over territory. Hunters who came face to face with Ngoubou said it looked vaguely similar to a rhino but had six horns arranged in a semicircular manner around a bony frill. You don’t need to be Roy Chapman Andrews to recognize a Triceratops-type dinosaur (like Styracosaurus) when you hear its description.

The cryptozoologists became convinced they were onto something when they showed the tribesmen pictures of dinosaurs. When showed a triceratops, the men said it looked just like Ngoubou, only it had fewer horns. They took the issue very seriously and insisted they weren’t mistaken.

Burrunjor

Above: Aboriginal cave painting depicting a Burrunjor. Below, a plaster print recovered by ranchers. 

Photo Credit: Rex Gilroy

In their heyday, dinosaurs like T. rex and Allosaurus were the top dogs. If they would have been present when man made his first appearance, it would have probably been the last one. Nowadays, it seems apex predators such as these guys are only present in movies and our imagination. And don’t forget Australia.

The Aboriginal people of Australia huddle around the fire to sing legends about an enormous reptile that is basically a pair of giant jaws walking around on two feet. Its only shortcoming are its two tiny arms.

During the 1950s, it seems this creature made a leap from legends into reality when ranchers looking for their missing cattle found its tracks in the dirt. The footprints were far too large to have been left behind by any known Australian creature so, naturally, the farmers recoiled in fear when they heard commotion near the river. Ignoring the loud, guttural grunts, one of them decided to investigate but came back running when he spotted the silhouette of a humongous bipedal lizard disappearing into the scrappy bushes.

The next day, their missing cattle turned up. Some bitten in half, others in smaller pieces, all very dead. That sounds like a perfect description of T. rex behavior.

Strange as they are, sightings such as these ones are far from being isolated events. Encounters with scaly and feathery beasts resembling dinosaurs come from many places and times. Legends involving the Loch Ness monster and its Icelandic counterpart, Lagarfljótsormur date back centuries. Native Americans in modern-day Canada have been retelling stories about Ogopogo since their oral history can remember. Strange things might be lurking in Earth’s dark forests and deep oceans, things that are eerily-reminiscent of the saurian form.

Photo credit: Swordlord3d/Discovery/DeviantArt

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most famous case of mass destruction because it was greatly popularized by mankind’s vested interest in dinosaurs. While the scientific consensus is that no dinosaur survived to our times, there are multiple cryptid sightings that would suggest at least some of them might still be around. Below you will find five of the strangest sightings related to this subject.

Some 66 million years before our time, the Earth was struck by a 6 mile wide space rock that was going 45,000 miles per hour. The devastating impact was more than two million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, the biggest explosive device mankind ever built.

But it wasn’t the blunt force of the hot that killed off the majority of our planet’s animal life. In the period following the asteroid hit, the world was engulfed in flames, shook by earthquakes and drowned in emissions from volcanic eruptions. The unrelenting global acid rain that followed, coupled with the atmospheric ash blocking sunlight resulted in plant life being greatly diminished. As the plant eaters died, they determined the fall of the entire food chain, rapidly causing the extinction of the behemoths that ruled the planet for over 160 million years. The dinosaurs were gone forever. Or were they?

1. Mokele Mbembe

The deepest river in the world is the African Congo and the surrounding jungle is the world’s second largest. Modern humans have explored only a fraction of the Congo rainforest so it is pretty clear that there are countless secrets still left to discover.

Since times immemorial, tribes who make their home in the Congolese forests have been religiously passing down a legend that makes them shiver. They unwillingly talk about Mokele Mbembe, a beast whose name literally means “the one who stops the flow of rivers.” Tribe members who swear they’ve seen it describe a fearsome creature with the body of an elephant, a long tail and a neck ending with a small head. Although the cryptid feeds on plants, it is said to be highly territorial and therefore aggressive.

Mokele Mbembe prefers resting its cumbersome body in deep waters and would sometimes flip over and drag under any boat that dared cross certain river bends.

This description fits an animal that resembles extinct sauropods such as the Diplodocus orArgentinosaurus.

The earliest expedition to go in search of this fabled beast took place in 1776. While the members of the expedition failed to discover the creature, they did bring back caster prints. The circumference of Mokele Mbembe’s paws measured over three feet, lending further credence to the idea that it is indeed a dinosaur. Over the course of the following centuries, more than 30 official expeditions attempted to capture the cryptid or its image, but they could neither prove nor dismiss its existence. All the while, the tribal stories about Mokele Mbembe still strike campfire fear in the hearts of those who d by Revcontent

Pterosaurs or winged lizards were commonplace in the world of dinosaurs. Their specialized wings allowed them to traverse vast distances of the Cretaceous without expending too much effort. The largest pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan the size of a bus and could easily pick up a human and swallow him whole.

Between 2001 and 2002, several Pennsylvanians forwarded reports detailing their encounters with a huge, long-necked flying creature that resembled a bird but had one key distinction: it lacked feathers. The witnesses description was reminiscent of a wave of sightings that occurred in Texas  in 1978 and 1982.

Similar sightings have been reported halfway around the world, in the Congo River basin, where locals told tales of a creature making its nest in the high hills. The large flier reportedly had such a bad attitude towards boats and their passengers that it was nicknamed Kongamato, meaning the Overturner of Boats. It was most active at dusk, when it probably went out to feed. Cryptozoologists are convinced ts smooth skin and teeth-packed beak are a clear indicator that the animal could very well be a pterosaur.

A 1988 expedition that went looking for the enigmatic creature turned up nothing except for a quick glimpse that revealed a huge black shadow with white stripes gliding in the distance. Short as it was, the sighting was enough to cement the idea that the majestic Quetzalcoatlus might not be so extinct after all.

3. Giant Snakes

No, snakes weren’t dinosaurs but they were already here when the dinosaurs arrived. And while palaeontologists haven’t been able to figure out what metabolism dinosaurs had, we do know that snakes slither the same way they did 200 million years ago. But they did grow bigger. Way bigger.

The largest snake to have undulated his body on the face of the Earth was Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which is synonym with 40 feet of pure, constricting terror. That is the biggest specimen according to fossil records that were discovered, but we would be perfectly safe in assuming they could grow even longer.

As over-the-top as that might seem, the South American continent is home to legends of even larger snakes. The Amazon’s murky waters could, in theory, offer them the cover to reach over 150 feet in length. Locals call the giant snake Yacumama, Mother of the Water. No official sighting exists but those who’ve seen it swear on their lives the animal is real.

The longest recorded Anaconda measured roughly 25 feet in length but that doesn’t even come close to the Yacumama’s reported size. If rumors of its existence are true, this serpent could be an undiscovered species of Anaconda or even a surviving T. cerrejonensis. Either way, it doesn’t look like it enjoys publicity so we might never get to see one.

4. Ngoubou

Stories about this African cryptid have only surfaced in recent years, and only by accident. While researching legends about Mokele Mbembe in Cameroon, two cryptozoologists heard a rumor about another massive beast. Members of a local tribe said it footsteps made the earth tremble and its roar scared off predators.

Although smaller in size, the animal was well equipped and aggressive enough to fight rhinos and elephants over territory. Hunters who came face to face with Ngoubou said it looked vaguely similar to a rhino but had six horns arranged in a semicircular manner around a bony frill. You don’t need to be Roy Chapman Andrews to recognize a Triceratops-type dinosaur (like Styracosaurus) when you hear its description.

The cryptozoologists became convinced they were onto something when they showed the tribesmen pictures of dinosaurs. When showed a triceratops, the men said it looked just like Ngoubou, only it had fewer horns. They took the issue very seriously and insisted they weren’t mistaken.

5. Burrunjor

Above: Aboriginal cave painting depicting a Burrunjor. Below, a plaster print recovered by ranchers. 

Photo Credit: Rex Gilroy

In their heyday, dinosaurs like T. rex and Allosaurus were the top dogs. If they would have been present when man made his first appearance, it would have probably been the last one. Nowadays, it seems apex predators such as these guys are only present in movies and our imagination. And don’t forget Australia.

The Aboriginal people of Australia huddle around the fire to sing legends about an enormous reptile that is basically a pair of giant jaws walking around on two feet. Its only shortcoming are its two tiny arms.

During the 1950s, it seems this creature made a leap from legends into reality when ranchers looking for their missing cattle found its tracks in the dirt. The footprints were far too large to have been left behind by any known Australian creature so, naturally, the farmers recoiled in fear when they heard commotion near the river. Ignoring the loud, guttural grunts, one of them decided to investigate but came back running when he spotted the silhouette of a humongous bipedal lizard disappearing into the scrappy bushes.

The next day, their missing cattle turned up. Some bitten in half, others in smaller pieces, all very dead. That sounds like a perfect description of T. rex behavior.

Strange as they are, sightings such as these ones are far from being isolated events. Encounters with scaly and feathery beasts resembling dinosaurs come from many places and times. Legends involving the Loch Ness monster and its Icelandic counterpart, Lagarfljótsormur date back centuries. Native Americans in modern-day Canada have been retelling stories about Ogopogo since their oral history can remember. Strange things might be lurking in Earth’s dark forests and deep oceans, things that are eerily-reminiscent of the saurian form.

Photo credit: Swordlord3d/Discovery/DeviantArt

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