1900
094 I 1900 Fabani, Carlo, Un fenomeno luminoso ossia
la fiammella di Berbenno, in "Atti dell'Accademia
Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei", - Sessione VII del 18
giugno 1899, published in vol. LIII, 1900, pp. 15-49
*
496 E 1900 Huntington, Ellsworth, Electric Phenomena
in the Euphrates Valley, in "Monthly Weather Review",
vol.28, 1900, pp. 286-287
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
584 E 1900 Electric Phenomena in the Euphrates Valley,
in "Monthly Weather Review", vol. 28:290, 1900
(Intemountain Electric Discharge. Cit. in 222)
585 E 1900 Notable Lightning, in "Monthly Weather
Review", vol. 28:290, 1900
(Intemountain Electric Discharge. Cit. in 222)
550 D 1900 Müller-Erzbach, Über die
Beobachtungn von Irrlichtern, in "Meteorologische
Zeitschrift", 1900, p. 505
(IF in Germany, Cited in 548)
611 E 1900 Spurious Daylight Observations of Leonids,
in "Observatory", 23:68, 1900
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles. Cit. in 222)
338 E 1901 …in "Folk-Lore", vol. 18?, London,
1901, pp. 209-10
(Earth light in Lorne, Scotland. Cit. in 199)
095 E 1901 Lang, A., Spectral Lights, in "Folk-Lore",
London, vol. 18?, p. 343, 1901
096 I 1902 Uno strano fenomeno luminoso, in "Corriere
delle Puglie", a. XVI, n. 217, August 8, 1902, p. 1 *
(EL in Berbenno, Italy)
097 E 1902 Dixon, H. T., Flames from Mud on a
Sea-Shore, in "Nature", vol. 66, n. 1702, June 12, 1902,
p. 151 *
(IF-like phenomenon seen in the United States)
612 E 1902 Marwick, E. E., Curious Phenomenon, in
"English Mechanic", 75:417, 1902
(Luminous aerial bubbles. Cit. in 222)
098 F 1902 Pozzi-Escot, A. E., …, in "Bull. Soc.
Chim. Fr.", 27:346, 1902
(Phosphine and ignes fatui)
569 E 1903 Geikie, Archibald, Summer Lightning, in
"Nature", vol. 68, p. 367, 1903
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
099 E 1904 Newell, William W., The Ignis Fatuus, Its
Character and Legendary Origin, in "Journal of American
Folklore", vol. 17, 1904, pp. 39-60
100 E 1905 Penhallow, D. P., A Blazing Beach, in
"Science", vol. 22, 1905, p. 794
101 E 1905 Fryer, A. T., Psychological Aspects of the
Welsh Revival, in "Proceedings of the Society for
Psychical Research", 19:80, 1905
456 E 1905 Evans, Beriah G., Merionethshire Mysteries,
in "Occult Review", Pt. I, n. 3, March 1905, pp.
113-120
457 E 1905 Evans, Beriah G., Merionethshire Mysteries,
in "Occult Review", Pt. II, n. 4, April 1905, pp.
179-186
458 E 1905 Evans, Beriah G., Merionethshire Mysteries,
in "Occult Review", Pt. III, n. 5, June 1905, pp.
287-295
697 E 1905 Ganong, W. F., Current Notes on
meteorology: On the fact basis of the fire (or phantom)
ship of Bay Chaleur, in "Bullettin of Natural History
Society New Brunswick", vol. 24 (5), 1905
(About a light phenomenon manifesting itself in the Bay
Chaleur, Canada, area)
102 E 1906 DeC. Ward, R., The fire-ship of Bay
Chaleur, in "Science", vol. 24, n.s., n. 616, October 19,
1906, p. 501
(About a light phenomenon manifesting itself in the Bay
Chaleur, Canada, area)
426 E 1907 Maxwell, Sir William George, In Malay
Forests', Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1907, pp. 84-95 and
Appendix II *
(The Author, an explorer, describes its experience with a
couple of "balls of light" on the west coast of Malay
peninsula in 1895, then tells about EL often seen in two
hamlets of Argyllshire, Scotland, and says he has
received many accounts of similar phenomena from a
certain number of countries)
615 E 1907 Turner, H. H. et al., On Seismological
Investigations, in "Report of the British Association",
1907, p. 87,
(Enhanced Rock Luminosity. Cit. in 222)
103 E 1907 Penhallow, D. P., A Blazing Beach, in
"Popular Science Monthly", 70:557, 1907
104 E 1907 Ganong, W. F., Mysterious Lights, in
"Journal of the Society for Psychical Research", 13:8,
1907
440 E 1907 Gurney, J. H., Ornithological Report for
Norfolk (1907), in "The Zoologist", England, pp. 1, 2, 5,
6, 14, 15 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
410 E 1907 Digby Pigott, T., A luminous owl, in "The
Times", London, December 14, 1907 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
408 E 1907 Letters to the editor, in "The Times",
London, December 26, 1907 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
613 E 1907 …, in "Scientific American", 96:90,
1907
(Enhanced Rock Luminosity. Cit. in 222)
614 E 1907 …. In "English Mechanic", 85:10,
1907
(Enhanced Rock Luminosity. Cit. in 222)
411 E 1908 Digby Pigott, T., Luminous Owls, in "The
Times", London, January 7, 1908 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
409 E 1908 Rawnsley H. D., Luminous birds, in "The
Times", London, January 14, 1908 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
412 E 1908 The luminous Owl, in "Eastern Daily Press",
Norwich, January 16, 1908 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
413 E 1908 Luminous owl at Hellesdom, in "Eastern
Daily Press", Norwich, February 7, 1908 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
414 E 1908 The luminous owl, in "Eastern Daily Press",
Norwich, February 8, 1908, p. 9 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
531 I 1909 Lombroso, Cesare, Ricerche sui fenomeni
ipnotici e spiritici, Turin, UTET, 1909, p. 295
(Some hints on IF as "paranormal" phenomena)
415 E 1910 The luminous Owl, in "The Zoologist",
England, n. 826, April, 1910 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
613 E 1910 …, in "New York Tribune", September
22, 1910
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles. Cit. in 222)
105 I 1911 Licò, Nigro, (aka Grillo, prof.
Niccolò), Dizionario di psichismo scienze occulte
- simbolismo, Società Editrice Mareggiani, s. l.,
1911, pp. 193-194 e 214-215 [Ristampa anastatica a
cura della (Tipolito Alba), s. l., s.d. [press:
1988] *
455 E 1911 Evans-Wentz, W. Y., The Fairy-Faith in
Celtic Countries, London, Frowde, 1911, pp …
(The "corpse candles" and ignes fatui in Great Britain.
Cit. in 391)
570 E 1911 Brunton, Lauder, A Pseudo-Aurora, in
"Nature", vol. 87, p. 278, 1911
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
617 E 1911 A Singular Effect, in "Scientific
American", 104:103, 1911
(Enhanced Rock Luminosity. Cit. in 222)
106 E 1912 Jack-o'-Lantern, in "English Mechanic",
96:454, 1912
599 E 1912 M., J. McV., St'Elmos Fire, in "Nature",
vol. 89, p. 7, 1912
(Electrified Light Patches. Cit. in 222)
498 E 1912 Knoche, Walter, Curious Lightning in the
Andes, in "Scientific American", vol. 106, p. 464,
1912
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
578 E 1912 Strange light of the Andes, in "Literary
Digest", 45:840, 1912
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
451 E 1912 The Yellow Light, in "The Daily Mail",
London, 25 December, 1912
(A EL in the Fermanagh Couny, Ireland, since six or seven
years. Cit. in 258)
438 E 1913 de Sibour, Count L., The Existence of
Luminous Birds, in "Knowledge", England, September 1913,
pp. 321-322 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
705 E 191 No Explanation, in "The Observer",
Charlotte, North Carolina, 24 September, 1913 *
(One of the oldest sources about the "Brown Mountain"
EL)
573 E 1913 Silent Discharges, in "Knowledge", 10:26,
1913
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
698 E 1914 De Visser, M. W., Fire and ignes fatui in
China and Japan, in "Mitteilungen des Seminars fur
Orientalische Sprachen an der Koniglichen
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin", vol. 17 (erste
abteilung: Ostasiatische Studien), 1914, pp. 97-193 *
(A long study about fire and ignes fatui in chinese and
japanese folklore. Pages from 162 to 193 are dedicated to
IF, EL and other similar phenomena)
418 E 1915 W. P. Drury, Lieut. Colonel, R. M. B. I.,
Intelligence Officer, Report on the Dartmoor Floating (or
Balloon) light, Intelligence Office, Plymouth Garrison,
Cumberland Block, Devonport, 4th December 1915. Admiralty
131/119 *
(Intelligence document on a strange light reccuring over
Dartmoor, England)
419 E 1916 Lieutnant R. N. V. R. Montague Eliot,
Commander in Chief's Office, Devonport, 31st March, 1916.
Armiralty 131/119 *
(Intelligence documents on a strange light reccuring over
Dartmoor, England)
420 E 1916 Lt. Colonel P. Drury, Garrison Intelligence
Officer, Intelligence Office, Plymouth Garrison,
Cumberland Block, Devonport, 1st April, 1916. Abnormal
Lights on Dartmoor. Admiralty 131/119 *
(Intelligence documents on a strange light reccuring over
Dartmoor, England)
107 E 1916 Luckiesh, M., An Unusual Experiment with
Ignes Fatui, in "Scientific American Supplement", 82:384,
1916
601 E 1916 Acharius, E., Account of an Extraordinary
Meteoric Phenomenon, in "North American Review", 3:320,
1916
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles. Cit. in 222)
108 E 1917 Peterson, Joseph, Some Striking Illusions
of Movement of a a Single Light on Mountains, in
"American Journal of Psychology", 28:476, 1917
109 E 1919 Sington, T., A Mistery, in "English
Mechanic", October 17, 1919, 110, pp. 152-3
110 E 1919 A Mistery, in "English Mechanic", 110:128,
1919
(The same as 109?)
111 E 1919 Samford, Fernando, Ignis Fatuus, in
"Scientific Monthly", vol. 9, 1919, pp. 358-362
112 E 1920 …, in "Scientific American"
(Supplement), May, 1920
(Some cases of ignes fatui)
113 E 1921 Smith, David J., Will-o'-the-Wisp?, in
"English Mechanic", 113:178, 1921
114 E 1921 Carrington, dr. Hereward, Death: Its Causes
and Phenomena, New York, Dodd, Mean and Co., 1921
(On the possible causes of "corpse lights")
608 E 1922 Ball Lightning, in "Meteorological
Magazine", vol. 57, 1922, p. 46
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles. Cit. in 222)
115 E 1922 Smith-Gordon, Lionel, Ball Lightning, in
"Meteorological Magazine", vol. 57, 1922, p. 336
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles. Cit. in 222)
116 E 1922 Mansfield, George R., …, U. S.
Geological Survey, 1922, pp. 13
117 I 1922 Pappalardo, Armando, Dizionario di Scienze
Occulte, Milan, Hoepli, 1922 (2nd ed.) pp. 166 and 318,
ristampa anastatica by Edizioni Cisalpino - Goliardica,
Milan, 1986 *
Note: A first edition in 1910
118 I 1922 Licò, Nigro, (aka Grillo, prof.
Niccolò), Occultismo, Milan, Manuali Hoepli n. 68,
1922, pp. 335-341, Ristampa anastatica by Edizioni
Cisalpino - Goliardica, Milan, 1988 *
Note: First Edition, Milan, Hoepli, 1905. Same text as
118.
416 E 1923 Barn-Owl (Tyto Alba), in "British Birds",
vol. XVI, n. 9, February 1, 1923 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations)
408 E 1923 Ghost on the Hills of Warwickshire, in
"Evening Dispatch", Birmingham, February 12, 1923, p.1
*
(Primary source on the ELs of South Warwickshire)
409 E 1923 Dancing "ghost". Radiant village spectre,
in "The Daily Mail", London, February 13, 1923, p. 7
*
(Primary source on the ELs of South Warwickshire)
410 E 1923 Will-o'-the-Wisp. Probable explanation of
the Fenny Compton Ghost, in "The Birmingham Mail",
Birmignam, February 15, 1923, p. 7 *
(Primary source on the ELs of South Warwickshire)
411 E 1923 Elusive Hill Ghosts, in "Evening Dispatch",
Birmingham, February 16, 1923, p.5 *
(Primary source on the ELs of South Warwickshire)
412 E 1923 Burton Dassett "Ghost". A puzzling
Phenomenon, in "Royal Leamington Spa Courier and
Warwickshire Standard", February 16, 1923, p. 5 *
(Primary source on the ELs of South Warwickshire)
413 E 1923 Tracking a Warwickshire village "Ghost", in
"Birmingham Gazette", Birmingam, February 20, 1923, p. 5
*
(Primary source on the ELs of South Warwickshire)
119 D 1923 Barrenscheen, H. K., Beckh-Widmanstatter,
…, in "Biochem Z.", 140:279, 1923
(Phosphine and ignes fatui)
348 E 1923 … in "Minneapolis Journal", June 26,
1923
(Various ELs in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Cit. in
199)
120 E 1925 Hausman, Leon Augustus, The Mystery of the
Will-o'-the-Wisp, in "The Mentor", 13:58, 1925
121 E 1925 The Queer Lights on Brown Mountain, in
"Literary Digest", 87:48, 7 November, 1925
336 E 1925 .., in "Minneapolis Journal", December 16,
1925
(ELs in Buffalo Basin district, near Beechy, Canada,
since 1912. Cit. in 199)
689 I 1925 De Ritis, Beniamino, Ortona, Rome, T.
Aquino, 1925, pp. …
(Some pages about the so-called "Lume di San Tommaso", a
strange "meteor" seen sometimes on a church in Ortona, on
the Adriatic Sea, since13th century)
122 E 1926 Chater, Melville, Motor-Coaching through
North Carolina, in " The National Geographic Magazine",
vol. XLIX, n. 5, May 1926, pp. 517-518 *
(The Brown Mountain EL)
123 R 1927 Rudakov, K. I., … , in "Zentbl.
Bakt.", 70:202, 1927
(Phosphine and ignes fatui)
128 R 1927 Liebert, F., …, in "Zentbl. Bakt.",
72:369, 1927
(Role of phosphine in marsh gas ignition is challenged on
thermodynamic grounds)
129 E 1928 Will-o'-the-Wisp, in "Science", vol. 68,
sup. XII and XIV,October 5, 1928 *
(Two close-up observations of IF in Germany in 1927 and
in 1914)
584 E 1929 Talman, Charles Fitzhugh, Static
Electricity Flares on Pikes Peak, in "American
Meteorological Society Bulletin", 10:78, 1929
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
130 E 1930 Robinson, H. W., …, in "The Field",
155:230, 1930
604 E 1930 Electrical Phenomena near Weymouth, in
"Nature", 126:262, 1930
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles. Cit. in 222)
131 E 1931 Cawood, W., Patterson, H. S., A Curious
Phenomenon shown by Highly Charged Aerosol, in "Nature",
vol. 128, n. 3221, July 25, 1931, p. 150 *
(Electrical optical phenomena in aerosols)
593 E 1931 Unusual Lightning Phenomena, in
"Meteorological Magazine", 66:41, 1931
(Large-Scale St. Elmo's Fires. Cit. in 222)
132 E 1931 Talman, Charles Fitzhugh, …, in "New
York Herald Tribune Magazine", July 19, 1931
(On the "Japanese Lights" seen at least since 1893 and on
mysterious lights on the Andes)
583 E 1931 Strange Kinds of Lightning, in "Literary
Digest", 111:22, October 10, 1931
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
133 E 1932 Talman, Charles Fitzhugh, Ball Lightning,
in "American Mercury", vol. 26, 1932, p. 69
(Luminous Aerial Bubbles)
134 E 1932 Viosca, Percy Jr., Spontaneous Combustion
in the Marshes of Southern Louisiana, in "Science",
75:461, 1932
135 E 1932 van der Pohl, Balthasar, Bead-Corona on
Radio Antenna, in "Nature", vol. 130, n. 3287, October
29, 1932, p. 662 *
(Optical phenomena near radio antennas)
136 I 1932 Napoletano, Raffaele, I fuochi di
Sant'Elmo. Studio critico, Nola, Tipografia Rubino, 1932,
fig., p. 78 *
(A literary review on the origin of the myth of Saint
Elmo)
137 E 1932 Talman, Charles Fitzhugh, What Is
Will-o'-the-Wisp?, in "Nature Magazine", 20:7, 1932
138 E 1936 Humphreys, W. J., Ball Lightning, in
"Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society",
76:613, 1936
(Saint Elmo's Fires. Cit. in 222)
139 E 1936 AP Dispatch, February 28, 1936
(The Ringold ghost lights, near Pasco,Washington)
140 I 1937 D'Amato, A., La leggenda di S. Elmo, in
"Lares", vol. VIII, n. 4, December 1937, pp. 319-320
*
(Literary notes on the origin of Saint'Elmos legend)
141 E 1937 …, in "Fortean Society Magazine",
1:16, October 1937
142 E 1937 …, in "The New York Times", August 1,
1937
(The "Blue Sparks" of Khartoum, Sudan and similar
phenomena in Kano, Nigeria, are perhaps a sort of
discharging static electricity)
143 E 1938 Botley, Cicely, Mary, St. Elmo's Fire in
Egypt, in "Meteorological Magazine", 73:96, 1938
(Saint Elmo's Fires. Cit. in 222)
699 E 1938 Rudkin, Ethel H., Will O' the Wisp, in
"Folk-Lore", London, vol. 49, 1938, pp. 46-48 *
(Details about EL seen in Willoughton, in Lincoln County,
UK, and in Cammeringham - "Cammeringham Light" &endash;
in Harpswell)
514 E 1938 Science and Supertstition Lock on Lights,
in "The Leader-Post", Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, vol.
XXX, no. 279, November 29, 1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
515 E 1938 Scoffing Unbeliver Sees Ball of Fire in
Midnight watch, in "The Leader-Post", Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada, vol. XXX, no. 280, November 30,
1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
516 E 1938 Strange Crab Emblem now on Letters coming
from Tabor District, in "The Leader-Post", Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada, vol. XXX, no. 281, December 1st,
1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
517 E 1938 Party from Esterhazy Glimpses Spooky Glare,
in "The Leader-Post", Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, vol.
XXX, no. 282, December 2, 1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
518 E 1938 Iron Gates to Graveyard now Bared, in "The
Leader-Post", Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, vol. XXX, no.
283, December 3, 1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
519 E 1938 Tabor Mystery is Reported Seen 23 miles
away, in "Morning Leader", Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,
December 5, 1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
520 E 1938 Burial Sites Proper Cemetery Trusters
Defend Conduct at Tabor Cemetery, , in "The Leader-Post",
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, vol. XXX, December 7, 1938
*
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
521 E 1938 Light Scares People, in "The Leader -Post",
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, vol. XXX, December 9, 1938
*
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
522 E 1938 Tabor Light appears four Times in Night, in
"The Leader-Post", Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, vol.
XXX, no. 292, December 14, 1938 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
577 E 1940 B., C. F., Glow Discharge on Mt. Wachusett,
in "American Meteorological Society, Bulletin", 21:206,
1940
(Mountain-Top Glows, Cit. in 222)
730 E 1940 Botley, Cicely Mary, The Air and its
mysteries, New York &endash; London, D. Appleton Century
Co., 1940, it. trans.: L'aria e i suoi misteri, Milan,
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1942, pp. 165-171 in the
italian translation
(Part of a chapter concerns Saint Elmo's Fires in
different areas of the world. A canadian EL in St.
Lawrence Bay is explained as a Saint Elmo's Fire)
779 H 1940 Szakaly, Ferenc, …, in "Kis Ujsag",
newspaper, Hungary, 18 August 1940
(EL seen in Bata, Hungary, in Augsut 1940 and in
1936)
144 E 1941 Blackwell, John W., Will-o-the-Wisp of the
Esperanza, in "Texas Folklore Society, Publications",
vol. 17, 1941, p. 118
337 E 1941 Fort, Charles, The Books of Charles Fort,
Henry Holt, New York, 1941, pp. 295-6, 625-8
(Earth lights in Wales; in Durham, England; in northern
Norkolk, England, in Warwickshire, England, in Northern
Ireland)
532 I 1941 Bozzano, Ernesto, Popoli primitivi e
manifestazioni supernormali, L'Albero, Verona, 1941, pp.
130-131
(Some notes on strange lights seen in Africa and on IF as
"paranormal" phenomena)
145 E 1942 Clark, R. E. D., …, in "Sch. Sci.
Rev.", 23:138, 1942
146 E 1944 Randolph, Vance, Ozark Ghost Stories,
Haldeman-Julius Publications, Girard, Kansas, 1944
(The "Ozark Spook Lights")
632 E 1946 …, in "The Kansas City Star", May 9,
1946
(The "Ozarks Spook Light". Cit. in 324)
467 I 1946 Eredia, Filippo, Pioggia di stelline sulle
braccia e sulle mani, in "Il Giornale d'Italia. Quinta
Edizione", Rome, 20 August, 1946, p. 3 *
(Saint Elmo's Fires)
147 I 1946 Misteriosi fuochi si sprigionano da un
antico mosaico, in "Corriere della Sera", Milan, October
27, 1946, p. 3 *
(Ignis Fatuus in Rome)
148 I 1946 Danza di fuochi fatui nelle campagne
vicentine, in "Corriere d'Informazione", Milan, December
9-10, 1946, p. ... *
(Ignis fatuus-like phenomenon in the italian province of
Vicenza)
149 I 1947 Alippi, Tito, Quelle misteriose luci..., in
"La Domenica del Corriere", a. XLVIIII, n. 5, February 2,
1947, p. 8 *
(The author, a geophysicst and parapsychologist, tells
about an Ignis Fatuus phenomenon in 1946 in Vicenza
province, and recaps the history of Berbenno's mysterious
fire often seen in the 19th century. Some sketchy details
about German cases)
710 E 1947, Gaddis, Vincent H., Visitors from the
Void, in "Amazing Stories", June 1947, pp. 159-161 *
(Some remarks about the "Ringold ghost lights", seen near
Pasco, Washington, and the "Brown Mountain lights")
150 E 1947 Randolph, Vance, Ozark Magic and Folklore,
New York, Columbia University Press, 1947, pp. 232-5
151 E 1948 Arnold, Kenneth, Phantom Lights in Nevada,
in "Fate", vol. 1, n. 3, Fall 1948, pp. 96-98
(Observations of strange circular lights at low level: a
series in 1922, again in 1927, and others in 1930, like
someone carrying a lantern, or an approaching car)
431 E 1948 Gaydon, A. G., Spectroscopy and Combustion
Theory, Chapman and Hall, 1948
(Chemistry of IF. Cit. in 251)
152 E 1949 Harden, John, The Devil's Tramping Ground,
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, 1949
(Antiquity of the Brown Mountain light)
153 E 1950 Sanborn, William B., An Electrical "Bath"
in Yellowstone, in "Natural History", vol. 59, June 1950,
p. 258
(Electrified Light Patches. Cit. in 222)
154 E 1950 voce: Ignis Fatuus, in "Chamber's
Encyclopaedia", 7:381, 1950
155 E 1951 Thomson, G., The Will-o'-the-Wisp, in
"Weather", 6:63, 1951
544 E 1951 Farwell, George, Land of Mirage, Australia,
1951
(Min Min light of Australia. Cited in 542)
156 Bessor, John Philip, … in "Fate", March
1951
(Interviews with eyewitnesses of the Brown Mountain
Lights. Cit. in 223)
621 Gaddis, Vincent, Electrical ghosts, in "Fate",
April 1951
157 E 1951 Partington, J. R., General and inorganic
chemistry, London, Macmillan, 1951, p. 598
(The role of phosphine in the ignition of marsh gas)
158 E 1951 UP Dispatch, April 13, 1951, and several AP
releases during March and April, 1951
(Suffolk, Virginia, USA, earth lights)
159 E 1952 …, in "Fate", vol. 5, n. 1, January
1952
(Phantom lights in the Oklahoma Panhandle)
160 I 1952 Rif (pseud.), Il fiammeggiante fantasma non
si lasciò bastonare dai carpigiani, in "Il Resto
del Carlino" (edizione di Reggio Emilia) , 6 June 1952,
p. 4 (Cronaca di Reggio) *
(A little spheric light appeared many times in 1927 over
Correggio countryside, in the Po Valley. The author
associates it with methane later discovered in the
area)
367 I 1952 N. C., Fiamme, esplosioni e boati
terrorizzano un paese dell'Abruzzo, in "Giornale
d'Italia. Edizione del pomeriggio", Rome, 11 June 1952,
p. 3 *
(Mysterious fires and explosione from the ground in the
central Appennines region of Italy)
161 I 1952 Fiamme, esplosioni e boato terrorizzano un
paese dell'Abruzzo, in "Il Tirreno", Leghorn, June 11,
1952 *
162 I 1952 Terrorizzato dai fuochi fatui un turista in
un cimitero, in "Il Giornale d'Italia. Edizione del
pomeriggio", Rome, August 2, 1952, p. 2 *
(A man is followed and scared by a group of ignes fatui
near an old church in the italian region of Trentino)
163 E 1952 … in "Globe and Mail", Toronto,
Canada, September 5, 1952
(The "light" of Lake Simcoe, near Brechin, north of
Toronto)
523 E 1952 Wenzel, Rubena, Mysterious Yarbo Ghost
Light, in "Star Phoenix", Saskatoon, Canada, October 15,
1952, p. 27 *
(A EL in Saskatchewan, Canada)
346 E 1952 White, N. I. (ed.), Frank C. Brown
Colletion of North Carolina Folklore - vol. I., Durham,
North Carolina, 1952, pp. 684-5
(Earth light in Watauga County, North Carolina. Cit. in
199)
620 I 1953 Il Monte Pellegrino si è
elettrizzato, in "Notiziario di Messina e della
Calabria", Messina, Italy, April 12, 1953, p. 6 *
(Diffuse electric discharges on a mountain in Sicily)
164 E 1953 Bessor, John Philip, Mysterious Lights of
Australia, in "Fate", vol. 6, August 1953, pp. 87-90
(cit. in 223)
165 E 1953 Field, Henry, The Track of Man, New York,
Doubleday and Co., 1953, pp. 92-93
(An earth light in the Iraqi desert. Cit. in 188 and in
199)
543 E 1954 Terris, G. B. M., …. In "North
Queensland Naturalist", Australia, January 1954
(Sightings of the Min Min light in Australia. Cited in
542)
166 I 1954 Un misterioso globo infuocato sorvola la
provinciale di Filicaia, in "La Nazione Italiana" (Lucca
Edition), Florence, November 22, 1954, p. 2 *
(A spheric light is often seen near the ground in a
village in Tuscany, Italy)
167 E 1954 Minnaert, M., The nature of light &
colour in the open air, New York, Dover, 1954, pp.
352-353
450 E 1954 Corbett, Jim, The Temple Tiger, and More
Man-Eaters, New York, Oxford University Press, 1954
(EL in a temple on a mountain of Northern India. Cit in
308 )
168 E 1955 AP Dispatch, January 29, 1955
(Lights in La Grande, Oregon)
662 E 1955 …, in "Evening Observer", La Grande,
Oregon, 29 January 1955
(The father of "flying saucers", Kenneth Arnold,
investigates about EL of the Blue Mountains, Oregon. Cit.
in Gross, Loren, UFOs: A History 1955, January-June,
Private Publication, Fremon, California, 1992)
169 E 1955 Dorson, Richard M., Folklore in the News:
Phantom Ship, in "Western Folklore", vol. 14, 1955, pp.
137-8
170 E 1955 Robson G., …, in "Marine Observer",
vol. 25, 1955, p. 95
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
171 E 1955 …, in "The Kansas City Star", October
2, 1955
(The "Ozark Spook Light")
526 E 1955 Jessup, Morris K., The Case for the UFO,
London, Arco Publishers, 1955, pp. 172-174 *
(Some notes on reiterate falling of "fireballs" in a very
confined area in the United States in 1951-2 and on EL in
Brown Mountain, NC, in Great Britain in 1908 and in
Wales)
790 E 1956 Eerie Blue Lights Are Seen Over Cemetery,
in "Oshkosh Daily Northwestern", Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
United States, 18 April 1956, p. 15 *
(The Silver Cliff, Colorado, "phantom lights")
791 E 1956 Colorado Folks See ghost Lights Dancing in
Cenetery, in "The Sheboygan Daily Press", Canada, 18
April 1956, p. 1, 20 *
(The Silver Cliff, Colorado, "phantom lights")
792 E 1956 Dancing lights in Cemetery Taunts Colorado
Residents, in "The Lethbridge Herald", 20 April 1956, p.
12 *
(The Silver Cliff, Colorado, "phantom lights")
172 E 1956 …, in "Fate", October, 1956
(Phantom lights in Loudonville, Ohio)
439 E 1956 MacGregor, Alasdir Alpin, The Ghost Book,
London, R. Hale, 1956, pp. 202-224, chapter XVI: "Phantom
Lights" *
(One of the most comprehensive pictures of ELs phenomena
in England)
541 E 1956 Ignis Fatuus, in "The Encyclopedia
Americana", vol. 14, New York, Washington D. C., Chicago,
Americana Corporation, 1956, p. 572 *
(A review of the phenomenon of IF with a rebuttal of
methane hypothesis for its origin)
173 E 1957 Moran, Paul, … in "Coronet", July
1957
(The earth lights of Chinati Mountains, Texas)
174 E 1957, …, in "Life", October 24, 1957
(The "Maco Lights" of North Carolina)
783 E 1957 Creighton, Helen, Bluenose Ghosts.
Reprinted Halifax, Nova Scotiza, Canada, 1994, p.
118-120
(The canadian "Teazer Light")
175 E 1958 Crane, T. C., Unidentified Phenomenon, in
"Marine Observer", 28:81, 1958
76 E 1958 …, in "Ford Times", June 1958
(The "Ozark Spook light")
542 E 1958 Min Min, in "The Australian Encyclopedia",
vol. VI, Sidney, Angus & Robertson, 1958, p. 91 *
(The Min Min EL in Queensland is discsussed since the
beginning of the 20th Century)
771 I 1958 Vercellin, Clorinda, Racconti e proverbi
della Valle del Lys, Italy, 1958, p. ?
(The Author says she spoke with some old witnesses of a
series of Ghostly EL often seen in November 1877 on Mount
Ciamoseira, in the Aosta Valley, in northern Italy)
471 E 1959 Lampasas Couple 'Victims' of Mysterious,
Fast-Flying Lights, in "Lampasas Record", Texas, January
29, 1959 *
(Two persons spotted for at least six weeks EL near the
soil or coming out of it. In one occasion, they were so
scared they had a slight car accident)
177 E 1959 Ives, Ronald L., Notes and Queries: The
'Phantom Ship' of the Gulf of California, in "Western
Folklore", vol. 18, 1959, pp. 327-8
178 E 1959 Tsubota, G., …, Soil. Pl. Fd., Tokyo,
5:10, 1959
(Phospine and ignes fatui)
336 E 1959 Blofeld, John, The Wheel of Life, Rider,
1959
(Earth lights in the sacred chinese mountain of Wu T'ai.
Cit. in 199 and in 368)
340 E 1959 …, in "Fate", July 1959
(Earth lights in Lamar County, Alabama, since 1895 and in
Cedar County, Missouri. Cit. in 199)
180 I 1959 Piombi, Giulio (a cura di), Superstizioni e
leggende della montagna reggiana, pp. 1, 6-7 e 26-27.
Supplemento a: "Notiziario della seconda Circoscrizione
Scolastica della montagna reggiana, 1959, Ristampa
anastatica: Felina (Reggio Emilia), La Nuova Tipolito,
1993 *
(Some narratives on ignes fatui and EL by pupils in a
primary school in the italian mountains of the province
of Reggio Emilia, collected in 1949-50)
700 E 1959 Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilisation
in China. Vol. 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the
Heavens and the Earth, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1959, it. trans.: Scienza e civiltà in
Cina. Volume terzo. La matematica e le scienze del cielo
e della terra. Parte seconda. Meteorologia e scienze
della Terra, Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1986, pp.
677-678 *
(An account about a SE from a chinese source of the year
1432)
179 E 1960 Spook Light, in "Science News Letter",
77:189, 1960
436 E 1961 …, in "North Australian Monthly",
January 1961
(Early accounts on the Min Min Light. Cit in 435)
181 E 1961 …, in "Westways", April, 1961
(Dancing earth lights along a road in the southern
California desert near Julian)
182 E 1961 Fuller, Curtis, …, in "Fate", May
1961
(Lights in Saratoga, Texas and against alleged mechanisms
for ignes fatui production. Cit. in 223 and 266)
183 I 1962 Rocchi, Francesco (ed.), Leggende del mare,
Bologna, Cappelli, 1962, pp. 85-92 *
(Saint Elmo's Fires in Italy)
545 I 1962 Maragliano, Alessandro (edited by Vidosso,
Giuseppe, Maragliano, Iria), Tradizioni popolari
vogheresi, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1962, pp. 331-332,
346-348, 352i. *
(IF and EL in the Voghera, Italy, area)
184 E 1962 …in "Charlotte News", North Carolina,
mid-March 1962
(The Summerville, North Carolina, USA, lights)
402 E 1963? Lael, Ralph I., The Brown Mountain Lights,
United States, circa 1963
(An alleged UFO-contactee says that the Brown Mountains
ELs are extraterrestrial craft. Cit. in 223)
185 E 1964 Bayless, Raymond … in "Fate",
September-October 1964
(The "Ozark Spook Light")
343 E 1964 Edwards, Frank, Strange World, Lyle Stuart,
1964, pp. 35-9
(The earth lights of Joplin, near Hornet, Missouri, Burke
County, North Carolina, Nansemond County, Virginia, and
Presidio County, Texas)
186 E 1965 …, in "Fate", January, 1965
(The light in the cemetery of Silver Cliff, Colorado)
187 E 1965 Gannon, Robert, Balls O'Fire, in "Popular
Mechanics", vol. 124, September 1965, p. 116
342 E 1965 …, in "Annals of Iowa", des Moines,
Iowa, vol. XXXVII, Spring 1965 pp. 561-73
(An earth light is seen near a farm of Warren County,
Iowa since 1874 up to 1947. Cit. in 199)
188 E 1967 Gaddis, Vincent H., Mysterious Fires and
Lights, New York, Dell, 1967, pp. 11-98 *
(The "Foo Fighters" of WWII and during the Korean War;
the "Japanese Lights" seen at least since 1893; theories
of "living UFOs"; "gizmos" on the radr screens; infrared
phtos of UFOs; oddities of lightnings; ball lightnings;
strange fireballs and strange fires; incredible
heat-blasts; the "devil's fires" of Siam; similar "fires"
in Tanzania, in the Andes in Arizona and in Brazil; an
electrical theory of UFOs by the technical writer Victor
Black; earth lights in the Iraki desert; the "Luz del
dinero" in Peru; the "Min-Min" light in Australia; the
"Waimea light" in the Hawaii; the "Iliamna Lights" in
Alaska; the "ghost lights" or Marfa Lights of the Chinati
Mountains, Texas; the light of the Brown Mountain, North
Carolina; the "Ozark Spook light"; the "Maco Lights" of
North Carolina; the lights of Summerville, North
Carolina; the "Phantom Light of Ringold", Washington;
lights in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.; lights in Saratoga,
Texas; lights of Suffolk, Virginia.; lights beetwen
Gonzales and Galvez, Louisiana; lights in the cemetery of
Silver Cliff, Colorado.; lights in Loudonville, Ohio;
phantom lights in Jersey City, New Jersey;
will-o'-the-wisps; globes of light in Rigstead Bay,
England; theories on conventional mechanisms for
low-level atmospheric phenomena; St. Elmo's Fire, other
mysterious lights in Khartoum, Sudan, Kano, Nigeria, and
near Julian, California.; lights in La Grande, Oregon, in
Nye County, Nevada and near McDermitt, Nevada; The
Oklahoma Panhandle Lights; phantom light of Lake Simcoe,
near Brechin, north of Toronto, Ontario; a mysterious
light in Maryland in 1952; mysterious lights as savers in
disasters)
732 E 1967 Shadbolt, Maurice, Paradise in Search of a
Future, in "National Geographic Magazine", vol. 132, n.
202, August 1967
(An EL in Cook Islands, Polynesia)
345 E 1967 …, in "Fate", November 1967
(Earth light on a river near Llano, Taos County, New
Mexico. Cit. in 199)
778 I 1967 Kolosimo, Peter, Fuoco magico sulle acque
del Giappone, in "Clypeus", Turin, Italy, vol. 4, n. 4-5,
December 1967, p. 3-5 *
(According to the Author, on July 31st of each year,
strange lights called "Shiranui" are seen at dawn over
the sea in front of Kumamoto, east of Nagasaki, Kyshu
island, Japan, and near Oshima, south of Tokyo)
571 E 1967 Botley, Cicely, Mary, Howell, W. E.,
Mystery on Mount Adams, in "Mount Washington Obeservatory
News Bulletin", 8:9, March 1967
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
780 H 1967 Szakaly, Ferenc, …, in
"Tükör", weekly magazine, Hungary, 19 December
1967
(The Author remembers the EL he reported in source nr.
779)
324 E 1967 Loftin, Bob E., Spooksville's Ghost Lights,
Private Publication, 1967, pp. 28 *
(A collection of news, folklore, gossips. Etc. about the
well-known EL of the Ozarks Mountains or Hornet,
Missouri, "light")
189 E 1968 Bailey, Herbert, Come see the Flying
Saucers, in "Argosy Magazine", December 1968
339 E 1968 Hervey, Michael, They Walk by Night, Ace
Publ. Co., 1968, pp. 63-5
(Earth lights in New Guinea. Cit. in 199)
631 E 1968 Loftin, Robert E., Identified Flying
Saucers, 1968, pp. …
(Some pages about "Ozarks Spook Light". Cit. in 324)
734 E 1968 Painter, Roger, The Brown Mountain Lights,
in "Search", United States, July 1968, pp. 50-58
190 E 1969 Linehan, Edward J, The Rockies' Pot of
Gold: Colorado, in "The National Geographic Magazine",
vol. 136, n. 2, August 1969, p. 201 *
(ELs at the Silver Cliff cemetary).
347 E 1969 …, in "Flying Saucer Review", London,
November-December, 1969
(EL in Cass County, North Dakota, in 1968. Cit. in
199)
191 E 1970 "Will-o-the-Wisp", in Cavendish, Richard
(ed.). "Man, Myth & Magic", England, 1970, vol. 22,
p. 3031 *
(A general introduction with a particular attention to
the "evil" tradtion annexed to the phenomenon)
600 E 1970 Stocks, H. G., Hanga Elibovu Elisbonu
Pezulu, in "Air Facts", 35:55, October 1970
(Electrified Light Patches. Cit. in 222)
546 E 1970 Mysterious Lights are Recalled, in "Capper
Weekly", Topeka, Kansas, April 21, 1970 *
(IF/EL in Kansas in 1900-1910)
335 E 1970 …, in "Winnipeg Free Press", Canada, 7
December 1970
(On the earth lights seen in an area north of Woodridge,
Manitoba. Cit. in 199 and in 257)
344 E 1970 Sanderson, Ivan T., Invisible Residents,
New York, World Publishing Co., 1970, p. 71-74 *
(Earth lights of Lake Wanaque, New Jersey in 1966-67
are said to be spotted in the area at least since
1920)
192 E 1971 Markson, Ralph, Nelson, Richard,
Mountain-Peak Potential-Gradient Measurements and the
Andes Glow, in "Weather", vol. 25, 1971 (or 1970?), p.
350
(The so-called "Light of the Andes" phenomenon and
other lights on mountains' peaks. Cit. in 206, p. 38 and
in 222)
194 I 1971 Zeppegno, L., Guida all'Italia leggendaria
misteriorsa insolita fantastica, Milano, Mondadori, 1971,
vol. 4, pp. 134-135 *
(In Ortona, in the Abruzzo region, a "meteor" is said
to appear sometimes over a church's pinnacle)
504 E 1971 Mansfield, George R., Origin of the Brown
Mountain Light in North Carolina, United States
Geological Service Circular 646, 1971, pp. 18
559 E 1971 Sandell, Roger, UFOs in Wales in 1905, in
"Flying Saucer Review", vol. 17, n. 4, Jualy-August 1971,
pp. 24-25 *
(EL and othe anomalous phenomena in the Welsh religious
revival of 1905)
565 E 1971 Sharp, Alan W., The New Ufology &endash; A
critique, in "Merseyside UFO Bulletin", England, vol. 4,
n. 5, December 1971, pp. 62-63 *
(The Author says he saw more than a time IF, and relates
it to "superstions" concerning the "little people")
572 E 1971 Young, J. R. C., The Andes Glow, in
"Weather", 26:39, 1971
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
579 E 1971 Latham, J., Mountain Peak Potential
Gradients, in "Weather", 26:80, 1971
(Mountain-Top Glows. Cit. in 222)
483 E 1972 Akers, David W., Report on the
Investigation of Nocturnal Light Phenomena at Toppenish,
Washington, August 1972, unpublished ms.
560 E 1972 Sandell, Roger, More on Welsh UFOs in 1905,
in "Flying Saucer Review", vol. 18, n. 2, March-April
1972, pp. 31-32, iii *
(EL and othe anomalous phenomena in the Welsh religious
revival of 1905)
195 E 1972 Kamra, A. K, Visual Observation of Electric
Sparks on Gypsum Dunes, in "Nature", vol. 240, November
17, 1972, pp. 143-144 *
(Strange optical electrical phenomena in New Mexico)
196 E 1972 Bessent, Malcolm, The lights of Brown
Mountains, in "New Horizons", 1:3, Summer 1972
197 E 1972 Hynek, Joseph Allen, Powers, R. T., The
Tri-State Spook Light, in "New Horizons", 1:6, Summer
1972
198 E 1972 ..., in "Winnipeg Free Press", Canada, 5
December 1972
(EL in Woodridge, Manitoba, Canada)
199 E 1972 Hall, Mark A., A "Ghost Light" Survey, in
"INFO Journal", vol.3, n. 1, whole n. 9, pp. 19-21,
Autumn 1972 *
(A listing of 46 locations of re-occurring "ghost lights"
in USA, Australia, Canada, Irak, Great Britain,
Venezuela, China and New Guinea)
200 I 1972 Ingham, M. F., La luminescenza dell'aria,
in "Le Scienze", italian edition for "Scientific
American", n. 44, 1972
(in biblio FLA)
201 E 1972 Burford, J. R., Bremmer, J. M., …, in
"Soil Biol. Biochem.", 4:489, 1972
(Vapour phase chromatography fails to detect phosphine in
the gases evolved from soil/phosphate mixtures)
193 I 1972 Violi Guidetti, Lisa, I fuochi di
Sassatella, in Deputazione di Storia Patria per le
Antiche Province Modenesi, Biblioteca &endash; Nuova
Serie n. 21, Frassinoro e le valli del Dolo e del
Dragone. Atti e memorie del Convegno di Studi tenuto a
Frassinoro il 5-6 giugno 1971, Modena, Aedes Muratoriana,
1972, pp. 167-169 *
(Ignes Fatui are localized in an old vulcanic area in the
Appennines section of Emilia, Italy)
710 E 1972 Mishoe, Philip B., The Lights of Brown
Mountain, Dorrance, Philadelphia, 1972, p. 236
781 E 1972, Hobana, Ion, Weverbergh, Julien, UFO's
From behind the Iron Curtain, Corgi books, London 1972,
p. 198-199 *
(The sources nr. 779 and 780, dealing with a EL seen in
Hungar in 1936 and in August 1940 are cited in this
work)
202 E 1973 Clark, W., 21 mystery sightings baffle
scientists, in "The Sunday News", Detroit, December 2,
1973
(On the Piedmont, Missouri ELs and about Harley D.
Rutledge studies. With two photos. See Schneider e
Malthaner 1977, pp. 213 e 215)
403 E 1973 UFO sightings Make Missouri Professor a
Believer in South, in "Kansas City Times", December 8,
1973
(About Harley Rutledge experiences in Piedmont, Missouri,
area. Cit. in 242)
331 E 1973 Mac Manus, Diarmid, The Middle Kingdom,
Great Britain, Colin Smythe, 1973
(An encounter with a Will-o'-the-Wisp in Ireland. Cit. in
251 and 266)
511 E 1973 Wright, Elwood, Kenney, Pat, The Enigma
Lights of Marfa: An Unexplained Phenomenon, 1973
unpublished ms.
203 I 1974 La misteriosa fiammella di Berbenno, in
"Bollettino della Società Storica Valtellinese",
Sondrio, n. 27, 1974, pp. 48-52 *
204 E 1974 Klass, Philip, J., UFOs Explained, Random
House, New York, 1974, pp. 74-84 *
(A skeptical review of the Brown Mountain, North
Carolina, "lights")
628 E 1974 Epstein, Jack, …, in "Phisics Today",
March 1974
(A tentative explanation through antimatter for H.
Rutledge's "lights" observed in Piedmont, Missouri. Cit.
in 453)
328 E 1974 Rothovius, Andrew E., Aerial Phenomena in
Canada During the Great Earthquake of 1663, in "INFO
Journal", n. 13, May 1974, p. 29 *
670 E 1974 Connelly, Dwight (ed.), Southeast
Missouri's Dr. Harley Rutledge To Resume On-Site Summer
Research, in "Skylook", n. 79, June 1974, p. 18
(About "Project Identification")
558 E 1974 Rutledge, Harley D., Light Flashes in the
Sky, in "Phisics Today", vol. 27, 11, September 1974
(Frequent obeservations of lights in a restricted area,
and a response to a critic for Piedmont, Missouri field
observations. Cit. in 222 and in 453)
353 E 1974 Moser, Don, Big Thicket of Texas, in
"National Geographic", October 1974, pp. 524-525, 528
*
(A photo is shown of the Saratoga, Texas, earth
light)
430 E 1974, Birchby, S., Will o' the Wisp, in "Quest",
n. 18, June 1974
(ELs and IF cases. Cit. in 251)
484 E 1974 Akers, David W., Investigation of Nocturnal
Light Phenomena, 1973 Sighting Reports from Toppenish,
Washington, unpublished ms.
205 E 1975 Fieux, R., Gary, C., Hubert, P.,
Artificially triggered lightning above land, in
""Nature", vol. 257, 18 September 1975
(in biblio FLA)
460 I 1975 Riciputi, Harold, Fuochi fatui sull'Hudson,
in "Il Giornale dei Misteri", Firenze, Tedeschi, n. 47,
February 1975, p. 34 *
(A story is told of a "trick" organized along the Hudson
River to smuggle drug using little fiery balloons taken
many times for "ignes fatui")
629 E 1975 Taylor, John H., …, in "Phisics
Today", March 1975
(An ectotoptic effect in the retina of the eye is
suggested as a cause for H. Rutledge's "lights"
observations in Piedmont, Missouri. Cit. in 453)
485 E 1975 Akers, David W, A Statistical Summary of
Reports from the Toppenish UFO Study, unpublished ms.
490 E 1975 Devereux, Paul, York, Andrew, Portrait of a
Fault Area, Part 1, in "The News", July 1975, pp.
5-19
491 E 1975 Devereux, Paul, York, Andrew, Portrait of a
Fault Area, Part 2, in "The News", October 1975, pp.
8-20
665 E 1975 Heaton, Harold I., Taylor, John H.,
Rutledge Harley D., Lights in the sky [letters],
in "Phisics Today", October 1975, p. 9
(About Rutledge's "Project Identification")
422 E 1976 Miles, Elton, Tales of the Big Bend,
College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1976,
pp. 149-167, 178-179, chapter: "The Marfa Lights" *
(A vast picture of the legends surrounding the Marfa
Lights)
708 E 1975 Arnold, John F., …, in "Beyond
Reality" magazine, United States, 1975
(Cit. in 204)
549 D 1976 Hamm, F., Naturkundliche Chronik
Nordwestdeutschlands, Germany, Landbuch Verlag, 1976
(IF sightings in Germany up to 1903. Cited in 548)
206 E 1977 Corliss, William R, Handbook of Unusual
Natural Phenomena, The Sourcebook Project, 1977, italian
trans., Il libro dei misteri naturali, Milano, Armenia,
1984, pp. 31-40 and 72-78 *
323 E 1977 Wiedenmann, C. L., Results of the New
Jersey 'Spook Light' Study, in "Vestigia Newsletter",
vol. 1, n. 2, Spring 1977, pp. 1-4
334 E 1977 Helms, Harry H., UFOs that Haunt, in
"Saga's UFO Report", October 1977
("Spooklights" and other "haunting" lights and
apparitions. Cit. in 223 and in 266)
401 F 1977 Viéroudy, Pierre (aka Berthault,
Pierre), Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme, Paris,
Tchou, 1977, pp. …
(Repeated encouters with a a low-level ball of light in
France. Cit. in 223)
417 E 1977 Menzel, Donald H., Taves, Ernest H., The
UFO Enigma: The Definitive Explanation of the UFO
Phenomenon, Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company,
p. 58 *
("Luminous owls" as triggers of ELs observations in
Norfolk, England, between 1907 and 1922)
407 E 1977 Case of sighting of a EL in Warminster,
Wiltshire, England. Report by Andy Collins, dated
February 19, 1977, pp. 4. *
(A little light is seen by a group of paranormal
investigators)
462 E 1977 Michell, John, Rickard, Robert, J. M.,
Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, London, Thames &
Hudson, 1977, pp. 26-27
(On Ignes Fatui)
429 E 1977 Michell, John, Rickard, Robert J. M.,
Phenomena: A Book of Wonders, London, Thames &
Hudson, 1977, pp. …
(IF and ELs cases. Cit. in 251)
651 E 1978 Oldham, Laporte, UFO windows and magnetic
faults, in "MUFON UFO Journal", January 1978
207 E 1978 Wagner, William S., Visvanathan, T. R.,
Earthquake lights, A Potential Aid in Earthquake
forecasting, in "E.O.S", vol. 59, n. 4, 1978, p. 329
*
("Strange Lights" in the United States seen as EQLs)
630 E 1978 Wagner, William, Earthquake Lights in
Alaska: A Summary of the Evidence, in "Mines &
Geology Bulletin", vol. XXVII, n. 2, pp. 6-8, June 1978
*
(References to recurrent light phenomena on the mountains
around Lake Iliamna, and other areas of Alaska)
208 I 1978 Cartier, Daniela, L'enigma delle luci
fantasma, in "Il Giornale dei Misteri", Florence, Corrado
Tedeschi, n. 82, January 1978, pp. 18-20 *
(A general review of "ghost lights" in the US, clearly
based on Helms 1977)
488 E 1978 Derr, John S., Sprinkle, R. Leo, Multiple
Phenomena on Colorado Ranch, in "APRO Bulletin", vol. 27,
pp. 5-8 et seq., 1978
209 E 1978 Arnold, Larry, E., Ahoy, Mate! Which
Flamin' Phantom Ship Sails Thar?, in "Pursuit", 11:144,
1978
210 E 1978 Meteoritic Night &endash; Glow, in "Sky
& Telescope", June 1978
(in biblio FLA)
329 E 1978 Pattison, Chris, I met a Min-Min globe!, in
"Psychic Australian", vol. 3, n. 6, June 1978, pp. 10-13,
25 *
(Description of direct encounters with the light known as
"Min-Min")
529 E 1978 Goodavage, Joseph F., Skyquakes,
Earthlights and E. M. Fields, in "Analog", 9, 1978
482 E 1978 Wagner, W., Hube, R., McGrath, J., Spook
Light. The Vestigia Update, in "Vestigia Newsletter",
vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1978, pp. 1, 3-7
725 E 1978 Brandon, Jim, Weird America, New York, E.P.
Dutton, 1978, pp. ?
(Notes about the "Marfa Lights")
211 I 1979 Di Pietro, Pericle, Lazzaro Spallanzani,
Modena, Aedes Muratoriana, 1979, pp. 66-70, 161-171 e
236-238 *
(18th Century-end studies by Lazzaro Spallanzani on the
production of natural gases on the mountains betwwen
Emilia and Tuscany, Italy)
212 I 1979 Conti, Sergio, La fiammella di Berbenno, in
"Il Giornale dei Misteri", Florence, Corrado Tedeschi, n.
95, February 1979, pp. 14-15 *
(Even if on the ground of an isolate and secondary
source, the author drew the attention of the italian UFO
community on the Berbenno's mysterious fires)
652 E 1979 Report on Current Research, in "Michigan
Anomaly Research", vol. 1, n. 1, 1979
(UFOs and faults)
213 E 1979 Peterson, Alan W., Airglow Events visible
to the naked eye, in "Applied Optics", vol. 18, n. 20, 15
October 1979, pp. 3390-3393 *
(During IR photographic observations covering several
years, some naked-eye airglow events are recorded)
524 E 1979 Collins, Andy, The Lights of the Damned, in
"Strange Phenomena", England, n. 1, 1979, pp. 22-24
704 E 1979 …, in "MUFON UFO Journal", n. 140,
1979, p. ? *
(In October 1828, in the Cassadega swamp, in New York
state, during the inght a who went lost is followed and
saved by a strange light moving some feet over the
water)
214 E 1980 Mills, Allan A., "Will o' the Wisp", in
"Chemistry in Britain", London, vol. 16, pp. 69-72,
February, 1980 *
(A comprehensive chemical study of the triggering
mechanisms of "ignes fatui" and a refutation of the
phosphine-ignition model)
671 E 1980 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: NATIONAL
ENQUIRER, 1980/06/24, On Dr. Harley Rutledge's Research
Into Missouri Sightings, in "The MUFON UFO Journal", n.
149, July 1980, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
650 S 1980 Forshufvud, Ragnar, UFO, ett fysykalist
fenomen, in "UFO-Sverige-Aktuellt", vol. 1, n. 1, 1980,
pp.
(UFOs as phenomena triggered by electrical discharges in
the earth's crutst)
215 E 1980 Mc Clure Kevin, Mc Clure, Sue, Stars and
Rumours of Stars, Privately Published, 1980 *
(The most comprehensive study of the "Welsh lights" often
seen in 1904-05, then connected to a religious
revival)
216 E 1980 Bearden, Thomas, E., The Excalibur
Briefing, Strawberry Hill Press, San Francisco, 1980, pp.
9-16
(The activity of Vestigia Group in the 1970s. Cit. in
257)
397 E 1980 Story, Ronald D., Encyclopedia of UFOs,
"Swamp Gas", 1980
398 E 1980 Eberhart, George, A geo-bibliography of
anomalies, 1980
(A list of more than 80 references on ELs and alike. Cit.
in 223)
399 E 1980 …, in "Full Moon", Honolulu, Hawaii,
July 1980
(A EL in Hawaii. Cit. in 223)
619 E 1980 Oliver, Norman, The Harston Affair, in
"BUFORA Journal", vol. 11, 1, 1980, pp. 21-23
(High-incidence of EL in an area of central England. Cit.
in 620)
672 E 1980 Hall, Richard H. (ed.), Six-Year UFO Study
- 34 UFO Sightings In Region Called 'Incredible' By
Physicist [Dr. Harley Rutledge], in "The MUFON
UFO Journal", n. 152, October 1980, p. 4
(About "Project Identification")
726 E 1980 Walser, Richard, North Carolina Legends,
Raleigh, NC, Department of Cultural Resources, 1980, pp.
?
(Notes about the "Marfa Lights")
217 E 1981 Rutledge, Harley D., Project
Identification. The First Scientific Field Study of UFO
Phenomena, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
1981 *
(An "on field" study of alleged atmospheric light
phenomena in Piedmont, southern Missouri, between 1973
and 1980)
673 E 1981 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: "Project
Identification" By Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, in "The MUFON
UFO Journal", n. 157, March 1981, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
674 E 1981 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: THE STAR,
1981/06/09, On Dr. Harley D. Rutledge's Study Of UFOs, in
"The mUFON UFO Journal", n. 161, July 1981, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
675 E 1981 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: "Project
Identification" By Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, in "The MUFON
UFO Journal", n. 162, August 1981, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
218 E 1981 Moravec, Mark, Ghostlights, in Proceedings
of the Sixth ACUFOS Conference, Adelaide, Australia,
1981
219 E 1981 Moravec, Mark, PSIUFO Phenomena: A Study of
UFOs and the Paranormal, ACUFOS Report D-14, Gosford, New
South Wales, Australia, 1981
220 I 1981 Ossola, Franco, Dizionario Enciclopedico di
Ufologia, Milano, SIAD, 1981, volume 1, "Fuochi fatui"
and
"Fuochi di Sant'Elmo", pp. 399-401 *
221 E 1981 Letter, from Mrs. Marlene-Bravo Rongstad to
Dr. Joseph Allen Hynek, 26 January 1981, reproduced in
Aldrich, Jan L., Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on
the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, UFO Research Coalition, 1997,
p. 121-122 *
(A woman remembers sightings of an earth light in the
Quilali, Nicaragua, area, beginning in 1945. The
phenomenon appears to be well-known in the
centro-american country)
400 E 1981 Kingsley, William, …, in "Pursuit", n.
54, 1981
(The Watersmeet light, England. Cit. in 223)
432 E 1981 Earp, Frank, Of Boggarts and Things, in
"Northern Earth Mysteries", n. 11, February 1981
(A personal experience with a EL/IF. Cit. in 251)
499 E 1981 Long, Greg, Yakima Indian Reservation
Sightings, in "MUFON UFO Journal", n. 166, December 1981,
p. 3
634 E 1981 Devereux, Paul, Letter, in "Common Ground",
n. 2, August 1981, pp. 6-9, and replies from Hilary Evans
and Jenny Randles, pp. 10-12 *
(A critical essay on Evans and Randles skeptical
positions)
500 E 1982 Long, Greg, UFO "Menagerie" on Yakima
Indian Reservation, in "MUFON UFO Journal", n. 168,
February 1982, p. 8
501 E 1982 Long, Greg, Recent Indian Reservation
Sightings, in "MUFON UFO Journal", n. 169, March 1982, p.
8
676 E 1982 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: "Project
Identification" By Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, in "The MUFON
UFO Journal", n. 167, January 1982, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
665 E 1982 Sheaffer, Robert, Project Identification
[review], in "Skeptical Inquirer", vol. 6, no. 3,
Spring 1982, p. 68
(A strongly critical reivew of Rutledge's "Project
Identification")
502 E 1982 Long, Greg, Memories of a Lookout: UFOs on
the Yakima Indian Reservation, in "MUFON UFO Journal", n.
170, April 1982, p. 7
677 E 1982 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: OMNI,
1982/05, Anti-Matter/UFO Update On Dr. Harley Rutledge's
Research In "Project Identification", in "The MUFON UFO
Journal", n. 171, May 1982, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
678 E 1982 Leet, William D., Review Of A Book Review:
Book Review By Mark Rodeghier, IUR, January 1982, CUFOS,
Of "Project Identification: The First Scientific Field
Study Of UFO Phenomena" By Harley D. Rutledge, in "The
MUFON UFO Journal", n. 174, August 1982, pp. 16-17
(About "Project Identification")
679 E 1982 Farish, Lucius, In Others' Words: FATE,
1982/09, Book Review By Allan Hendry Of "Project
Identification" By Dr. Harley Rutledge, in "The MUFON UFO
Journal", n. 174, August 1982, p. 19
(About "Project Identification")
507 E 1982 Rutledge, Harley D., Letter to the Editor,
in "APRO Bulletin", vol. 30, no. 11, 1982
635 E 1982 Devereux, Paul, Letter, in "Common Ground",
n. 6, 1982, p. 24 *
(On the so-called "Dyfed Triangle" as a high-incidence EL
area)
435 E 1982 Bauer, N. W., A Mystery Unsolved &endash;
The Story of the Min Min Light, in "Royal Geographic
Society of Australia Bulletin", vol. 17, n. 1, January
1982, pp. 11-21 *
(An important panorama of stories and legends about the
Min Min Light)
222 E 1982 Corliss, William R., Lightning, auroras,
nocturnal lights, and related luminous phenomena. A
catalog of geophysical anomalies, Glen Arm, Maryland, The
Sourcebook Project, 1982, pp. 92-101, 104-110, 123-125,
127-128, 167-179 *
(An enormous number of bibliographic references to
geological and meteorological anomalies seen in the
atmosphere and near ground)
404 E 1982 Bord, Janet, Bord, Colin, FSR Bookshelf -
12: Project Identification By Dr. Harley D. Rutledge, in
"Flying Saucer Review", vol. 27, n. 4, February 1982, pp.
19-21 *
(A favourable review of Harley Rutledge's book, even if
the bulk of the experiences are seen as some kind of
"creation" by the observers. Cit. in 242 and in 453)
495 E 1982 Hanners, David, Marfa Lights Convince Pair
of Geologists, in "Dallas Morning News", July 4, 1982, p.
AA2
(Cit. in 267)
223 E 1982 Evans, Hilary, BOLs, in "The Probe Report",
vol. 3, n. 1, July 1982, pp. 6-19 *
646 E 1982 Earth Emits Ghostly Lights, in "Science
Digest", July 1982
(Cit. in 267)
473 E 1982 Rutledge, Harley D., Letter-to-the-Editor,
in "Science Digest", September 1982, p. 8
(Rutledge reply to a critic of the legitimity of his
on-field study)
224 E 1982 Letters, in "The Probe Report", vol. 3, n.
2, October 1982, pp. 3-6 *
(Some letters &endash; one of them from Hilary Evans
&endash; about "BOLs")
225 E 1982 Randles, Jenny, Under intelligent control?,
in "The Probe Report", vol. 3, n. 2, October 1982, pp.
14-16 *
(Some suggestions regarding EL, "windows areas",
etc.)
226 E 1982 Pippard, Brian, Ball of Fire?, in "Nature",
vol. 298, 19 August 1982
(in biblio FLA)
227 E 1982 Robins, Don, The Dragon Project and the
talking stones, in "New Scientist", October 21, 1982, pp.
166 &endash;171 *
(Ultrasound are recorded from ancient stone circles in
England)
228 E 1982 Devereux, Paul, Earth Lights,
Wellingborough, England, Turnstone, 1982 *
229 E 1982 Devereux, Paul, Forrest, Robert, Straight
lines on an ancient landscape, in "New Scientist", 28-30
December 1982, pp. 822-826 *
(The "ley lines" theory and its possible relatioshpi with
alleged unknown forms of natural energies)
230 E 1982 Role of Naturally Occurring gas hydrates in
Sediment Transport, in "Bulletin of the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists", 66:589, 1982
(in biblio FLA)
332 E 1982 …in "Fate", 1982
(A report dealing with spooklights in Brunswick, Georgia,
in 1938. Cit. in 266)
424 E 1982 Namiki, Shinichiro, Ghost Light Appeared
and Disappeared Repeatedly!, one page report, 1982 *
(A EL is seen in Japan in July 1982)
655 I 1982 Maclellan, A., The lost world of Agharti:
the mystery of vril power, London, Souvenir Press, 1982,
it. trans.: Agharti il mondo sotterraneo, Milan, Piemme,
1998, pp. 18-21
(The author tells about his sighting of a "green light"
in a cave linked to some local legends. Then, the
expericence is explained as a case of ignes fatui)
715 E 1982 J. H., [Harney, John], Review of:
Devereux, Paul, Earthlights, in "Magonia", n. 11, 1982,
p. 19 *
(A critical analysis of the first book about ELs)
231 S 1983 Perelman, Yakov Isidorovich, Problemas y
experimentos recreativos, Editorial MIR, 2nd ed., Moskva,
1983, pp. 104-105
(cited in 275)
680 E 1983 Rutledge, Harley D., Project
Identification: Author's Response, in "The MUFON UFO
Journal", n. 179, January 1983, p. 9
(About "Project Identification")
681 E 1982 Hendry, Allan, Letter: Reviewer Response To
Author [Harley Rutledge], in "The MUFON UFO
Journal", n. 182, April 1983, p. 14
(About "Project Identification")
666 E 1983 Rutledge, Harley D., ?, in "Skeptical
Inquirer", vol. 7, no. 3, Spring 1983, p. 83
(A reply to Sheaffer's critique. Cfr. n. 665)
649 E 1983 Mattsson, Dan, Mattsson, Carl-Anton,
Kolmården. A swedish UFO window, in "AFU
Newsletter", AFU, Sweden, n. 25, September 1982 &endash;
April 1983, pp. 1-6 *
(An area in southern Sweden is examined under the light
of possible fault-lines and geomagnetic triggering for
anomalous aerial phenomena)
232 E 1983 Coleman, Loren, Mysterious America, Faber
& Faber, Boston, 1983
(Long sections about "spook lights" in the United
States)
233 E 1983 Randles, Jenny, The Pennine UFO Mistery,
Granada Press, London, 1983
234 E 1983 Randles, Jenny, review of Devereux, Paul,
"Earthlights…", in "The Probe Report", vol. 3, n. 3,
January 1983, pp. 18-19 *
(An almost enthusiastic response to Devereux's first
ideas on ELs and apparently similiar phenomena)
239 E 1983 Randles, Jenny, Warrington, Peter, The
neglected Science of UFOs, in "New Scientist", vol. 99,
10 February 1983, pp. 380-381 *
(The Authors offers the concept of "Unidentified
Atmospheric Phenomena" as a catch-all idea for natural
unknown luminous phenomena linked to geophisical
events)
238 E 1983 Devereux, Paul, McCartney, Paul, Robins,
Don, Bringing UFOs down to earth, in "New Scientist",
London, vol. 99, 1 September 1983, pp. 627-630 *
(One of the most comprehensive presentation of
"Earthlights" approach)
656 E 1983 Campbell, Steuart, Letter, in "New
Scientist", 15 September 1983, p. 799 *
(Critics of the EL theories enounced by Devereux et
al.)
235 E 1983 Devereux, Paul, UFO and Faults, in "New
Scientist", 20 October 1983, p. 217 *
(A defense of the EL theory against the skeptical author
Steuart Campbell)
240 E 1983 Shilton, Pam, The Min Min Light, in
"Journal of Meteorology", England, vol. 8, 1983, pp.
248-250 *
(Some experiences with the Min Min Light)
463 E 1983 Mc Clure, Kevin, Serious Faults, in "Common
Ground", n. 7, 1983, pp. 7-10
(Critics of earthlights theory)
465 E 1983 Devereux, Paul, The "Earthlights" Debate
for Defence, in "Magonia", n. 12, 1983, pp. 8-12 *
(An overall defence by the "father" of the earthlights
theory)
508 E 1983 Simon, Cheryl, Looking Out for Luminous
Phenomena, in "Science News", 124, 1983, p. 412
237 E 1983 Campbell, Steuart, UFO data, in "New
Scientist", 15 December 1983, p. 799
(in biblio FLA. Cit. in 257)
241 E 1984 Mulholland, Derral, What Are Those Lights?,
in "Science", vol. 84, 5 (2), March 1984, p. 32
(Marfa's Lights. Cit in 405)
406 E 1984 …in "The Wall Street Journal", …
March, 1984
(Marfa's Lights. Cit. in 405)
242 E 1984 Rutledge, Harley D., UFOs: A Phenomenon of
Nature, in "The Probe Report", vol. 4, n. 1, 1984 pp.
10-12 *
(About "Project Identification" by Harley Rutledge)
362 E 1984 Rogerson, Peter, Review: Rutledge, Harley,
Project Identification, in "Magonia", England, n. 17,
October 1984, p. 20 *
(A strongly critical evaluation of "Project
Identification" authored by Harley Rutledge)
330 E 1984 Frizzell, Michael A., Investigating the
Brown Mountain Lights, in "INFO Journal", n. 43, 1984, p.
22
(Earth lights and ignes fatui in North Carolina)
492 E 1984 Evans, Hilary, Mysterious Spheres and
Lights, in "INFO Journal", vol. 10, whole no. 45, 1984,
pp. 4-6
497 E 1984 Kaczmarek, Dale, The Ozark Spooklight, in
"INFO Journal", 10, whole no. 45, 1984, pp. 13-15
509 E 1984 Vardeman, J., Ghost Light of Screven, in
"INFO Journal", 10, whole no. 45, pp. 16-17
405 E 1984 Stacy, Dennis, Ghost lights remain as
Marfa's Top Attraction, in "Fort Worth Star-Telegram",
August 5, 1984 *
(ELs in Marfa still a mystery despite the attempts to
explain it)
464 E 1984 Letters, in "Common Ground", n. 9, 1984,
pp. 11-15
(A debate on earthlights theory)
556 I 1984 1984, Cosio, Tavio, Roche, Sarvan e Masche,
Cuneo, Centre Prouvençal Coumboscuro, 1984, pp.
223-235, 281-282 *
(A legend about a yellow "light" seen every night after
WWI in a village in the Cuneo province, on a nearby
little river)
243 E 1985 Mullard, Jonathan, The Linley Lights, in
"The Ley Hunter", n. 97, Wales, Winter 1985, p. …
*
(A british ELs wave in 1913-14)
244 E 1985 Devereux, Paul, New Jersey Light, in "The
Ley Hunter", n. 98, Wales, Spring 1985, p. … *
(Studies of ELs by Vestigia group in which sudden changes
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