Searching for The Brown Mountain Lights
Clip: Season 3 | 4m 36s
Astronomers search for western North Carolina's mysterious Brown Mountain Lights.
For more than 100 years, mysterious lights have shone over western North Carolina's Linville Gorge and Brown Mountain. In that time people have attributed the lights to everything from swamp gas to train lights to aliens and yet no one knows exactly what they are. Watch as two Appalachian State University Astronomers use special cameras to investigate the lights.
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Searching for The Brown Mountain Lights
Clip: Season 3 | 4m 36s
For more than 100 years, mysterious lights have shone over western North Carolina's Linville Gorge and Brown Mountain. In that time people have attributed the lights to everything from swamp gas to train lights to aliens and yet no one knows exactly what they are. Watch as two Appalachian State University Astronomers use special cameras to investigate the lights.
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