I noticed this article on the Internet and it made me think of the "Paulding Light."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2008/09/astronomers-spo.html

I'm a wife,mother & grandmother, who was just trying to understand some strange experiences. I had a burning desire to know more of the 'whys'. I wanted logical answers,to seemingly illogical occurrences.
My personal journey for answers, eventually led me
to work with a physicist.

I wouldn't mind people's comments as much,if they got the stories straight! So much of what I have said, has been misconstrued, taken out of context & COMPLETELY mangled on various websites, including here.For heaven sakes, if you're going to quote me, make sure you get it right! I won't address all the inconsistencies now.

Yes, you can see car lights from highway 45. We have proved that countless times. Yes,there is a 'real' mystery light,which is seen on rare occasions, NOT every night. The area has numerous anomalies, one of which distorts distance car lights. I hope to write a book to set the record straight,about what we have learned so far, including paranormal experiences,maps, experiments, photographs & dispel the myths. The problem with video recorders will also be addressed.

It has been said,"Truth is stranger than fiction." 'Think outside the box' & be willing to open your mind to other realms of possibilities. Bring back that inquisitive child you once were, & look at what science has discovered to be 'truths'. This is not your grandparents science.

Let's not forget Unsolved Mysteries! Hello people, it's a TV show! Do you honestly think they do any REAL investigations? I've been studying this area for 11 years.

So, before casting judgments about someone/something you know nothing about, I suggest reading a few good books & learn more about the incredible & complex universe we live in!

I've read every book mentioned below except, Physics of the Impossible, which is on my list to read this winter.
BOOKS:
1. Michael Talbot, 'Holographic Universe'

Dr.Michio Kaku, (The bio was taken from the Coast to Coast website.) IMHO, Dr. Kaku is this century's Einstein.
2. Beyond Einstein : The Cosmic Quest for the Theory
of the Universe,Introduction to Superstrings.
3. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel
Universes, Time Warps & the Tenth Dimension.
4. Einstein's Cosmos Visions: How Science Will
Revolutionize the 21st Century.
5. Parallel Worlds: A journey Through Creation,
Higher Dimensions & the Future of the Cosmos.
6. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific
Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force
Fields, Teleportation & Time Travel.
BIO:
Dr. Michio Kaku is an internationally recognized authority in theoretical physics & the environment. He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College & the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has lectured all around the world & his Ph.D level textbooks are required reading at many of the top physics laboratories. Dr. Kaku graduated from Harvard in 1968, summa cum laude, & number 1 in his physics class.

He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkley Radiation Laboratory in 1972. He held a lectureship at Princeton University in 1973. He then joined the faculty at the City University of New York, where he has been a professor of theoretical physics for 25 years. His goal is to help complete Einstein's dream of a 'theory of everything', a single equation, perhaps no more than an inch long, which will unify all the fundamental forces in the universe.
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And,... BTW, I DO get freaked out sometimes!

I always thought the light was Bill Roth with a maglight. But if he stood there with Vikki and Jerry, my theory is shot.

George from San Diego: this light has been a mystery for years, decades. i doubt its a sign that the power lines are going to cause a fire.

I was at the Paulding light as a kid, don't remember much of it. I'd like to go back. Its just something thats neat, why all the bickering and arguing over it?

Mike P, looks like you figured it out. No reason for anyone to go there anymore I guess.

Kind of sounds like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!! You can never get it. Anyways, I've never been to see the light, but I think it'll be a cool adventure when my kids get older.

This light that you see at sunset, is the wiring connections arcing, because of high voltage in the wires.

These are signs to linemen that there might be a power
outage or worst there might be a fire to the surrounding area very soon. These kinds of arcs are very scary to linemen, this is because of the wire arcing and falling to ground.

Some please call the electric company to have it
check out.

i've been to the light many times. friends and i have even ventured towards the light, and honestly there is no way it is headlights. sometimes you'll walk towards it and it will disappear, and people standing back at the guard rail will say that it was right next to you. i've heard some people say that they've walked to about where it should be and they turn around and it is behind them. headlights have been ruled out for many years. i think swamp gasses would be a more reasonable explanation but i'm still not sure about that one.

were you aware that when ripleys/unsolved mysteries investigated this phenomenon, that they closed off the highway that you supposedly were seeing lights from? the light was still there, but how could this be with no cars going through?

For all the 'have to believe people', I will return at a later date to see if anything different appears than what over 30 people including myself saw this past Sunday night!!! Maybe the boogie-man train conductor thingy had another appointment that particular night. As I said before, that night was very clear without distortion from any atmospheric conditions whatsoever. Maybe I was robbed of a great "paranormal" event!! Next time, I will pray for some light, almost invisible condensation in the air. If I get any other experience, I will be sure to post it out here for EVERYONE to read and admit my belief!!! For those of you who did not take the time to read my first explanation 'completely', NOT EVERY RED LIGHT WAS A STATE CRUISER!!! Get real!! Taillights/brakelights were BY FAR the most common culprit!!! The police lights just made a very interesting 'dancing' red light scenario 2 or 3 times over an hour with cameras/naked eyes only. To be more specific, there is currently a construction zone throughout that entire stretch of M-45 visible from Robbins Pond Road. They were patroling it more frequently than normal, for obvious reasons... Again, common sense.. But for now, We will just leave it at, "I WAS ROBBED!!!" I WANT TO SEE THE CONDUCTOR DUDE! Maybe even the Elf and Sasquatch that was also mentioned. That would be a memorable weekend!! Gaze on, the area does need tourism.

That thing keeps getting turned on without us knowing about it.

Sends up some low freq beam that excites the swamp gas in the area and poof it's gone.

Anyone have headaches lately?

No really, I think it is Sasquatch calling his home planet.

The first time I went to see the light, it was less than fascinating. Not much activity, and not very bright. I was curious to see it better and returned about a year later. We sat in our car and were the only ones there. At one point, the light was so close and so bright that it lit up the woods around us and I literally thought I was going to get hit by a train! I was so scared I locked the doors and made the driver leave immediately! I don't care what anyone says, it was not someone standing out there with a flashlight, nor was it car lights. Or a police cruiser. (That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.) There could be cars in the distance, but those are secondary to the light I saw. Previous to seeing what looked like a big train coming at me, there were blue, white, and red lights, as well. Sometimes at the same time. I don't care what anyone else believes, I am fascinated by the Paulding Light. I have seen the Unsolved Mysteries episode as well. It was about 20 years ago now. It aired on a Wednesday night...strange, the things you remember...

are you serious? cars! i have never seen car headlights/taillights float around the way that light does. also how do you explain the way that light remains on. if it were lights from a vehicle the light would go on and off as the vehicles went past. i am not supersticious, i do not beleive in gosts or any of that stuff but that light is definetly not man made.

I knew that it would ruffle feathers, but have you personally seen the 'evedince' that NASA and Unsolved Mysteries collected? I know the local website states many things, but has anyone looked into them. Please post some links to pages, and I will gladly look at them. I have searched the Unsolved Mysteries website which has all of their shows archived and could not find the episode. BTW, it was an amazing telescope. He turned it around to view Jupiter and 4 of its moons in amazingly clear detail- I would call that powerful enough to view cars only 20-25 miles away. Do we have to get the mythbusters up here to prove it? Like I said, several people there that night were able to look through the TELESCOPE (NOT BINOCULARS), and everyone could see it as plain as can be. I went there hoping to find an interesting phenomenon, just like everyone else. I love the supernatural, but this was way too easy to figure out. Did you ever think that this is a livelyhood for the area, and they WANT to keep this up for business-true or NOT. Just b/c a website claims something, does NOT mean it is true. We have to use common sense along with fascination. Does ANYONE have any data from NASA? I truly desire to see something from them. I would love to see something different than I saw that night!!!

It's really strange that NASA and Unsolved Mysteries have been there trying to figure out what causes the light, and they were unable to find any evidence such as what you are describing. Too bad the experts weren't there when you were there - you could have helped them out! Really, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I don't know how you saw cruisers and stuff. That must have been some fancy telescope!

So, Mike, from Negaunee, you think that in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that there are cars going by at such a steady pace that the light could be as constant as it is? Also, you mention that the colors from the light are people getting pulled over by the cops. I don't think THAT many people are getting pulled over by the cops in that same area every night that the light does change colors. I'm not saying that it IS a ghost light and I'm not ruling out other possibilities, but perhaps you should go again sometime and bring a more open mind.

We just visited the 'Paulding Light' just this past Labor Day weekend. We were standing exactly where the pictures were being taken. With just our eyes, you could pick out headlights in mid dusk. With our telephoto lens, we could distinguish even clearer that it was not a mystery but a optical illusion of distance and air disturbances. A very nice gentleman brought a very high powered electronic, automated telescope. He allowed us to look through his expensive toy which confirmed our previous thoughts. With this accessory you could pick out the headlights, and, OH YES, the changing of colors, that was bright taillights, and an occasional police car pulling someone over. You could actually pick out the cruiser, and what body style of other vehicles (ie. sport utility, van, sedan, etc...) This gentleman was nice enough to let anyone that was watching that night to look for themselves. The brightness of lights also depended on dim or bright lights, and which road they were on. There are at least 3 roads that are visible from that location. Upon driving up M-45 you find a long stretch of the highway that slowly climbs (also descending in direction of the viewing point) for well over 2-3 miles!! This perfectly unchanging incline in perfectly parallel to the same geographically straight power lines that you are standing under at the viewing location. The night we were there, the air was clear, so distortion was at a minimum. On hazy, foggy days, or any other condition thought of to produce water vapor or heat/cold transfer from the ground, this 'light' would appear to dance, morph, and distort. Again, sorry for the clarification to all the believers in the supernatural whereabouts to this light.

I, too, have seen the Paulding Light on several occasions since the 1970's. You DO have to witness it for yourself to believe it. During the day, it's not there at all, no sign of anything unusual either. Supposedly it was once featured on Unsolved Mysteries years ago, but I've never been able to find the story on the Internet. Not only is the light interesting to witness, but also the throngs of people who congregate there nightly. I've been there in the middle of winter on a bitter cold night, and there were at least a few dozen brave souls there, too. It's always interesting to listen to the opinions and the reactions of those folks in the darkness. If you've never seen it for yourself, it's a must see for any Yooper or tourist. Thank you TV6 for the story on this mystery. It's long overdue and the video certainly accurately captures what it looks like, too, but a first hand view is highly suggested, especially for those skeptics out there.

i went twice last year and met a women there who has been studying for the last 10 years. she was hired by a physist. she had amazing photos on her camera. and was very knowligable on the light. soundslike you did not run into her. to bad. some times she is the only one out there. which happened to me and my husband and it got close. And thatis what she told me the more people out there the less it has appeared in the last feew years. she let me know that night it wasn't the light. she said you will know it. i am energy sensitive and she asked me questions already knowing i was which was weird but i had my own theories of a portal and she agreed that was what they were looking at and definitly some magnetic energy that they picked up on there equipment. she also said one night by herself she never gets creeped out and some guys in suits showed up didn't pay attention to her. she said she left. she said defintly not a wedding party which she often sees in the summer months. this women is out there in the winter. those photos i saw of winter time were very cool. hope you get out there again and run into her. some peole thinks she is crazy but i can tell you depends on how open you are.

For those of you who have not seen the Paulding Light, it is a sight. I was a skeptic until I was there. My family and I have visited many times, different hours of the night, and still are amazed. If you have not been to see the Paulding Light, it's time for a road trip!!