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44 = NEXUS Another style of light-energy emission event being observed ing film exposure times or variations in the beam's actual light- involves orange-red- coloured forms hanging statically in the emission intensity. night sky. Commonly pencil-beam-shaped (vertical or at 45 On the original colour photos one can see beside the orange degrees), but including rare spherical forms, this style of event has beam a band of weaker red lines, then blue lines, then an even been reported since about 1985, with an apparent increase since weaker band of red lines, and then blue lines again, as follows (to about 1990 but with many more sightings reported since 1993. the left of the major beam): O RRR BBB rrr bbb, and so on. Some 100 such events have been reported. Note that similar spectra also exist to the right side of the beam. Luckily, in this case, an alert amateur meteor astronomer, expe- The spectral lines are distributed either side of the major orange rienced in night-time astrophotography, has captured one such beam across a considerable width of sky—at least twice the length case on film. John Goldsmith photographed this beam from his __ of the visible beam length and possibly more. These photos also home in Bedfordale (east of Fremantle in the Darling Ranges) at — suggest that a 'ghost' basal tail of the central major beam goes about 9.50 pm on 24 May 1990. John's photographs are shown on much lower, possibly to ground level. the following pages. The photos were taken in the dark at about 9.50 pm (sunset here I took a compass reading (at the spot indicated by John in WA on 24 May 1990 was at about 5.30 pm). Note that the Goldsmith near his telescope observing platform) across the trees _near-vertical white line on the left hand side of image no. 2 is an as visible in photos 2-4. The bearing was about 262-263 degrees _ original film glitch and not an event of the time. magnetic (local deviation is a degree or less as is the compass and It was originally suggested that this beam was an effect created reconstruction accuracy). The beam bearing is on a direct line to _ by a ground-based laser, but checks by atmospheric scientists who the "prohibited" area of the Fremantle Garden Island Naval Base. employ such devices in Australia and the USA have completely This "island", or promontory, is riddled with underground installations from World War II when it was used as a submarine base by the US Navy/British Royal Navy/Royal Australian Navy. The southern end of Garden Island is occupied by HMAS Stirling—our current submarine base—where most of the Australian Collins Class subs are to be based. Naval yards are also present under the beam bearing on the mainland. Although we cannot deduce the exact range of the beam, it has to be fairly close to the as it appears at high altitude observer as it is in front of the . with no connection from ground clouds and lights up some of | Photo #1 of orange light beam over Fremantle Garden Island | jeyel, [It also has no conical sec- them. It is therefore a good bet Naval Base on 24 May 1990 (© John Goldsmith) tion diverging upwards, and it that this beam was hanging above, or very close to, the Garden has exotic parallel harmonic spectral lines. Island naval facility. In 1991 a Japanese astronomy magazine published an article John Goldsmith had come out of his house that night to do with a very poor black/white version of the photo, suggesting the some astronomical telescope work. He saw the orange beam main beam was caused by refraction of ships' lights by a horizon- hanging vertically in the sky and raced back inside for his camera. __ tal layer of different density air. If so, why has this effect not discounted such a theory. One major problem is that the light- form appears well up in the atmosphere and is not connected to any ground-based laser. Another problem is the large width of the beam when com- pared to normal pencil-thick laser probes which are normally only visible within two kilome- tres of the beam. In addition, there are harmonic spectral lines visible across the image. Another suggestion was that the beam is a searchlight, yet it cannot be a normal searchlight Being used to capturing transient meteorite events, he knew exact- been previously documented anywhere over the world's oceans? ly how to set up the photo. He used 400 ASA film on settings of I now have many eyewitness accounts of such vertical orange 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 120 seconds and 120 seconds for photos _ beams seen at night over land over the past two years here in WA. 1 to 4 respectively. These land locations are generally uninhabited and have no light John stated that the beam lit up some clouds and was not as sources (such as searchlights, etc.) for refraction by air layers as bright as the images captured on film—probably due to light cap- _—_ suggested by the Japanese magazine. ture in the exposure time, or perhaps his recall of the intensity is a One 1996 Brisbane beam event report was very significant as bit out. The beam did not appear to move around or change much _ the observers saw very-high-voltage, blue-white discharge over the five to six minutes that it was in view, but John was con- _ streamers issuing from their house wall-mounted mains power centrating hard on the camera. box as an orange beam hovered nearby in the sky. Members of A video reconstruction utilising his four photos, each registered another household reported their power box hummed violently as on the same bright stars, demonstrates that, indeed, the beam loca- the orange beam hovered some distance away in the sky. tion is entirely static over the duration of the event. Finally, after This data confirms the probability that Tesla-style longitudinal about five to six minutes, the beam just faded away to nothing. scalar EM potentials were involved in this Brisbane event (and There was no sound event. therefore were possibly present during the other beam events), The stars are seen to move over the exposure time, and possibly probably created by a remote Tesla EM transmitter and issuing the centre of orange light intensity changes a bit, downwards from local space-time 'vacuum' at the standing wave target node, along the beam. The overall beam light energy varies up and i.e., the beam location. down in intensity from photo to photo—possibly due to the vary- One quite feasible explanation for the orange beams is that they JUNE - JULY 1997