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Strange Lights on the Taiwan Straight

May 12, 2009 By: thenhbushman Show on map Category: Phenomenon, Photography

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Photos by MJ Klein

This evening I went up to the roof because evenings have been nice and cool recently.  My jaw dropped when I saw the lights coming from the Taiwan Straight:

This shot is facing west and except for a few kilometers of land in front of me, there is nothing there except the Taiwan Straight and eventually, China.

This isn’t the first time that I’ve seen strange light beams like this in Taiwan.

I took the above 2 shots in June, 2004, in Taoyuan.  I shot them out my window and I had removed the window glass to get an open view of the mountains.  In this case, I’m facing West towards the center of Taiwan.

This is the second shot from this evening.  Notice the very well developed beams to the left.  Or should I say “shadows?”  These went on for a considerable distance up into the sky.

Not sure what causes these beams (especially the ones from the East) but they sure look interesting!

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8 Responses to “ Strange Lights on the Taiwan Straight ”

1. # 1 Dennis Says:
   May 12th, 2009 at 21:23

   look lovely though

   

   thenhbushman reply on May 13th, 2009 01:14:

   they do look good, don’t they, Dennis? thanks.

2. # 2 Brunty Says:
   May 12th, 2009 at 23:18

   It is a UFO MJ, or maybe god was in all his glory after getting out of the shower

   Beautiful shots, love the ones from 2004, the mountains are pretty close to you. Must get cold there in winter. Do you get fogs there off the mountains?

   Bruntys last blog post..Day 1 New Thai School Year, Surivived. Isaan Thailand.

   

   thenhbushman reply on May 13th, 2009 01:10:

   hey Brunty, i was thinking that it looks like light shining between God’s fingers!

   i don’t live in the same place as i did in 2004, but we’re still close to the mountains. we did get some mists coming down from them occasionally. the main problem in the wintertime is the humidity and the wind. it seems a lot colder than it really is. thanks Brunty.

3. # 3 cfimages Says:
   May 13th, 2009 at 09:35

   These are cool. I’ve got some shots from Nanliao, Hsinchu that show these same type lights.

   

   thenhbushman reply on May 13th, 2009 23:00:

   Craig, i would love to see your shots of those lights! what do you think causes them? Andre and i were discussing it and we think they are caused by clouds. but the Taoyuan lights are mysterious because they were from the East while the sun was setting.

   

   cfimages reply on May 14th, 2009 07:23:

   Here’s a couple of links. Hope you don’t hate link spam!

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfimages/747874282/

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfimages/747874276/

   Feel free to use the pics here if you want (or not).

   cfimagess last blog post..Apologies: Digg is bringing lots of traffic

   

   thenhbushman reply on May 14th, 2009 20:12:

   Craig, i’m glad you posted those links – thanks! very cool shots! wonder if we should start up a Flickr group for beams?