an unknown light can be freighting
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An Unknown Light Can Be Freighting
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A couple of years ago I went camping in a secluded plot of land a friend owned.
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There was no one out there that night except for me and a group of friends.
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We were all gathered around the campfire one night and noticed a beam of light coming from behind the
trees about 100 feet away.
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The light was moving around aiming at us then swinging up into the sky like a spot like.
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None of us knew what the light was or what it was coming from.
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Of course, all the girls start to get scared and run into their tents.
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While the three guys myself included muster up the courage to go see what the mysterious light is.
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The three of us start moving towards the light within the trees.
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As we get closer my friend Brad starts to get scared and decides to turn back.
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Encountering The Mysterious Light
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Now at this point it is just my friend Ian and I.
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We make it to the other side of the trees and see a clearing with a bright light emitting from the center.
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I tell Ian that I am going to get closer and see what it is, but Ian seemed to be so nervous and tells me “I
will just stay here”.
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I decide I am going to see what this light is no matter what.
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There I go by myself into the clearing walking straight to the light.
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The light seemed to get brighter as I got closer, but once I was about 20 feet away I noticed it was a truck
that just had a lot of lights on it.
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I am now wondering who this could be; we should be the only ones out here, as I walk up to the side of the
truck.
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There is a person setting up a deer blind.
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He notices me and jumps up from what he was doing.
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My adrenaline is kicking in and I am ready for whatever is about to happen, but as he turns and we make eye contact I notice that it is my friend’s dad
that owns the land.
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A sigh of relief was let out from the both of us.
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After explaining to him what happened, he apologized and said he didn’t realize that we were in
that direction.
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This encounter has always made me curious how far a flashlight or lights can be seen.
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So I did a little research about how light travels.
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How Light Travels
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The way light works is it is projected from its starting point.
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Let’s say you are using a flashlight.
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The light the flashlight emits is actually photons in a cone shape.
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The further the photons get from the source the thinner and more spread out they become.
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Eventually coming to a point where the naked eye is unable to see.
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Photons are continuous meaning that they will never stop, but after becoming so thin they basically turn
invisible.
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Can Light Be Seen At Extreme Distances
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Like I stated earlier about how light is photons and the photons thin out after so far.
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You can actually control how far you can see the light from your flashlight to a certain extent by focusing
the beam.
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The more focused you have your light the further it will go.
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On the downside the more focused the beam is, the less the light will cover width wise.
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