There are stories of them since the times when only Indigenous
People lived in Australia, but even today, nobody really knows what
they are.
According to the stories, they are like
balls of light that hover above
the ground, sometimes come near to and follow people, sometimes go out
and reappear elsewhere, and generally over the time have scared a lot
of people.
They appear, more so during the summer months, in the western Queensland
and New
South Wales, but one
of the towns that has claimed the fame and turned the phenomenon into
tourist dollars is Boulia
in outback
Queensland. There you
have a whole information centre built to the lights.
So what is it? Nobody really knows. It is believed that it is an
optical illusion, like mirage, but still, what causes it?
There are different hypothesis that suggest it could be caused by
swarming bioluminescent insects, some geophysical phenomena, and even
an
optical illusion that comes from other light sources such as car
lights, however all the hypothesis have big enough weaknesses that none
has succeeded to be established as the answer.
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