The 'Lighthouse Theory' - OLD THREAD - PLEASE SEE NEW ONE

[schooner]

HI Ian,

I cannot accept that the Shipwash lighthouse was the culprit either. If we assume that the Orfordness light is almost 100 feet high on a ness that is 4 metres above sea level and viewed from the forest it just shows itself through a cutting in the woods at Gedgrave then the Shipwash lightship would need to be significantly higher than the lighthouse for it to be seen above the Suffolk landscape.

Regards

Schooner

[DoRayEgon]

Yep, that's right Andy - I have seen the lighthouse's beam myself - quite dissapointing. The way some people talk, I was expecting a massive multicoloured light show, and some "trippy" illusions, but obviously not... it was just a little light on the horizon.

By the way, there's a new page about the lighthouse theory coming very soon. It's in-depth and is already looking really good.

It does if you look at it through a night scope , also the light has changed a lot since the 80's new bulbs ect, just look at the difference between different car headlight systems, chalk and cheese and that makes comparison difficult if not impossable.

[IanR]

I discovered that the meteor which was said to be over Suffolk on the 26th December 1980 would have been visible for only six seconds!
I doubt you'll see this mentioned on a debunking website.

No one knows how long the December 26 meteor lasted, so any proposed duration would be only a guess. However, fireballs commonly last a few seconds, which is long enough for many of them to be seen and reported as objects crashing to Earth. Six seconds is in fact quite long for a fireball and one of such duration would be an exceptionally spectacular sight.

Ian