Hello, and welcome to podcast UFO.
A warning today, I like to take a quick look at the Brown
Mountain Lights, the Brown Mountain Lights as a phenomenon
of lights, or what commonly referred to as ball lightning
that appear in and around the Brown Mountain down there, in
North Carolina, it's in the Pisgah national forest and it's
right along the edge of the Smoky Mountains down through
there or the Blue Ridge Mountains rather.
This has been going on for some time and it's quite an
interesting phenomenon actually, and it's an interesting area.
Lots of paranormal experiences down there and the Blue Ridge
Mountains, and this particular mountains stretches, as part of
the Appalachian Mountain, the stretches, all the way from
Georgia clure, North up into the Northeastern United States.
If you see on the map, not mountains, like the Rocky
Mountains, they're older worn down, mountains are just kind of
like a wave upon wave of That with the tops kind of worn down
and they're real neat to look at.
You can see plenty of pictures am online their forested with
typical. Northern Hardwoods.
Lots of mountains dreams, just a absolutely beautiful area.
You have the Blue Ridge Mountains that run through
there. You have, What's called the Blue
Ridge Parkway, which is a, which is a highway that goes down
through there too. It's a, it's a scenic route and
all kinds of national parks National Forest just a really
cool place. Base, were some really cool
things have happened. Now, the Brown Mountain itself.
It's, it's a mountain, it's has a, it has an elevation of about
2,300 feet, I believe. And the way most people see it
is, they go along those, this highway, the Blue Mountain, the
Blue Mountain Parkway, and they have a stop-off.
I look at area where you can pull over to the road,
literally, and you had a little higher elevation in about 2,700
feet, and you can look out over this Ridge.
This and you can see there in the, not too far distance.
You can see the Brown Mountain and it's a more or less about a
mile and a half long kind of a flat top Mountain.
You can see its distinctive, you can see it there in the distance
and in this area, there's all kinds of mountains around and of
course and gorgeous. But in this area you can see all
kinds of this light phenomenon for better term.
It looks like Globes or ball lightning that intermittently
not particularly in, but they'll you'll see him sometimes night.
Right, these lights will pop up, sometimes they'll be a lot of
them sometimes, one or two and these Globes of light will rise
up from the ground and it appears and float, you know, One
Direction or another across Horizon, sometimes they make
little Maneuvers really, very strange.
Very neat. Looking thing.
Now, this phenomenon has been going on for a long time.
I reportedly back in, they can trace the archaeologists, at
least back to 1200 ad. They have reports that The I
believe was a Cherokee and Choctaw live down there and they
fought quite a few battles over this particular area.
And the old medieval Legends say that as many of the, the Indian
Braves would be killed in battle their wives and mothers to come
out after the battle with their lanterns and try to find them in
the dead and wounded and carry him off.
And then the native folklore these lights.
Those are the lights of these long dead in didn't ended
maidens that came out there to try to find They're dead and
wounded and husbands and Sons. And you know that's that's their
idea of what's going on there. But it shows that this
phenomenon has been occurring for a very long time and we can
trace it back to historical times under President George
Washington, George Washington, sent a team down there to survey
the area shortly after he became president and what they reported
when they got down there, they reported the lights to them.
There were these Already Globes were ball, lightning, whatever
you want to call up, floating up from, you know, in the distance
and drifting off, one way or another making strange Maneuvers
and they reported this. And now at the time I can't see
where they were debunked or made fun of or I will turn into
social outcasts. They would just they just said
this is what we saw, they reported it and it was left that
it was unexplained phenomenon. Now in 1913 I believe it was
September, 24th is reported account was considered I think
pretty good account. Ain't a people seeing these
light phenomenon again and they reported it.
And by this time the Pisgah National Forest have been
established, bunch of land down there that had belonged to the
Vanderbilts have been turned over to the government, sold, or
whatever. And the government was, was fast
building up this National Park system that we have today where
we have this Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge Mountains, they
stretch all the way from down in Georgia core up into you know in
Northeastern United States when you have the Apple Cantrell.
It's all part of this system so that was beginning to be
developed back then. And I suppose, the government
was naturally, curious about this phenomenon has been
reported. And now that this was a National
Force, the government had the authority and they had a reason
to investigate. So this is 1913 and they sent
down a couple debunkers. I would even bother to call them
investigators. And the debunkers decided that
the only thing people had seen was locomotive you going through
there because I guess there was a train track, the head went
through that area. Now, how a train floats, 200
feet above the forest, floor is beyond me, but that was the
explanation. They offered.
It was nothing but the headlamp on the train.
Well, two years later 1915, the flood washed out the whole train
track and everything, no train left and it was reinvestigated.
But this time the government debunkers decided that it was
headlights. From automobiles can imagine it
would have been that many in 1915 that it was people carrying
lanterns. And I think they even bothered
to report another another train engine headlight which I don't,
I don't even know how you could do that.
If there's no train track, but it was pretty clear, they were
just down to debunk. Well, as the years of going on
the reports of these lights has continued, you know,
intermittently over the years. People have taken pictures of
them, and of course, a lot of the doubters and debunkers, have
claimed, you know, that photographs for fakes hoax,
whatever. But there are plenty of people
on the record that have actually had some pretty close up.
Experience with these lights, there was a, an experience and
experience with a couple Park Rangers.
I have the video posted that seen the lights up.
Up close. They described Elijah rising up
in the ridge moving back and forth.
No explanation. There's also an astronomer down
there from one of the universities in North Carolina.
He's a lot of really good Research into it and just
recently they have taken some pretty high quality pictures and
you can see the pictures were taken from a vantage point up on
a ridge, overlooking out over the outer, the rolling mountains
and overlooking Brown Mountain. Just looks like little Camp
fires almost, but they're not can't fire.
It's a little balls of light and they're all suspended above the
valley. Very interesting.
They've got video, some high-quality video of these
balls of light, rising up out of the valley near the Brown
Mountain or the Brown Mountain, and then moving left or right,
it's pretty indisputable, and there's some good, there's some
good research has been done on it, some of the, some of the
look ports, they'll send a look reporter down and they'll do
some good research, but they're really kind of the sad thing is
that with most of your local reporting, they've always got to
throw on a little debunking line at the very end and try to make
fun of anybody who would think that this could be possibly a
paranormal or UFO phenomenon and one of the things I noticed that
I thought was really kind of hypocritical actually is a lot
of these news reports you'll watch and I've been through a
few of them. They go through the history, the
Brown Mountain phenomenon and it's very interesting and they
do cover the part about the Native Americans, which we've
all covered. And whenever they talk about the
Native Americans, folklore, that the lights are of, you know,
long-dead native women out looking for their men, you know,
the news reporter. He relays the story in hushed
tones and reverence because the last thing he wants to do is
insult the Native American population and that's fine.
But if the interview See who's doing hard scientific research
and they bring up the notion that this could possibly be some
kind of paranormal phenomenal, phenomena or UFO.
Phenomena, they immediately break into laughter.
They start making jokes about UFO and little green man.
And actually, it's kind of obnoxious, when you see this as
many times as I have, as you research these stories, you have
to wonder if these news reporters, are they just that
scared of the afraid of the nose?
Ocean of paranormal or UFO phenomena or are they actually
being paid by somebody to put this nonsense out there?
We've all seen the UFOs Shore as we've all seen how they act
toward UFO researchers and when you put that into context,
there's a couple of videos out there were, somebody has taken a
new story like that whatever the current news story is and
they've downloaded 15 or 20 local news reports on that story
and the reports are verb. Them exact same thing.
It's like when they talk about fake news, it's like it's all
except all the even the local news is manufactured somewhere
to Big warehouse and then just spoon fed to us.
And that's the thing I run into you over and over again, with
these UFO, phenomena of space, there's something like Brown
Mountain. This is no one's trying to to
claim it's a specific thing but it is a very interesting
phenomena or these lights appear, they energy plasma,
whatever people have reported, this phenomena occurring that
area even in parking, lots So people are having experiences
with it up close and people are having experiences with it at a
distance but even it seems like a common thing as you watch the
news coverage because it's in a National Park area National
Forest. When you watch local news cover,
this phenomena, a well-documented phenomenon, they
aren't able to just cover it and leave it as an unexplained
phenomena. They have to always bring up the
angle. Could it be UFOs?
Could it be a lie? Could it be paranormal and then
try to debunk that notion? They're creating a strong man.
They're debunking it. They're making fun of it and
they're trying to make the notion that people who think
UFOs or paranormal phenomena are possible, are somehow crazy.
So that's the angle that I really took away from it.
Lots of good stuff out there in this particular area of the of
the country at there in the Blue Ridge Mountain Area.
It's part of the Appalachians, there is so much.
Cool. Paranormal type stuff, that's
been reported, everything from alien, abductions to Bigfoot to
the Kentucky Lizard, Man. Lots of really fun stuff and
here right in the dead center of all that, you know, paranormal
phenomenon, that UFO phenomena sets, Brown Mountain with these
lights. So it really has to make a
person wonder. Is it a natural phenomenon
somehow that's creating ball lightning or as you're something
else? That's really going on there
that we We just can't put her finger on.
Well, that's all for today, over and out UFO.com.