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Category: Light that arrives from the wrong direction

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The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

  • Fata Morgana – Stacks a distant coast into towers, stretches a lighthouse into a column, hangs a ship above the sea. It cannot move any of them sideways.
  • Min Min light – The light that follows travellers across western Queensland. Shown in 2003 to be a mirage of a car 300 km away, and still officially unexplained.
  • Mirage – Not a trick of the mind: a real image of a real object, correctly formed, arriving from a direction the object is not in. It photographs, which settles it.
  • Novaya Zemlya effect – The Sun seen weeks before it is due, guided round the curve of the Earth by an inversion. Recorded in 1597 and disbelieved for three centuries.

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