The mysterious Cohoke Light floats along a stretch of railroad track that passes through a swampy forest in eastern Virginia. For generations, the light has thrilled and puzzled residents. Local…
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The mysterious Cohoke Light floats along a stretch of railroad track that passes through a swampy forest in eastern Virginia. For generations, the light has thrilled and puzzled residents.

For centuries, hundreds of people have reported lights moving through the skies of western North Carolina. The Brown Mountain lights are one example of our planet’s many unexplained luminous phenomena.
Earth’s atmosphere is a fluid habitat, like the ocean. Objects moving through the sky resemble marine invertebrates in at least ten major ways…