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Similar lights in the Australian desert appear related to inversion layers refracting headlights over the horizon (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s8

• midrus 8y ago
  That's what the Men in Black would say.
  • jmts 8y ago
    Or in this case (if you check the researcher's surname), the Ministry of Magic.
• sockgrant 8y ago
  Interesting. I suppose that's possible. It was a single light and it was changing colors. Its movement tended to stay within a specific range. Do you have any thoughts on the white flashes? They were the scary part. Everything was perfectly daytime for a split second, and there was no fading of the light like with lightning. It was immediately all white then immediately dark again. It creeps me out thinking about it. The light on the horizon seemed 50 miles away, but the flash was right on us, extremely bright, and blanketed everything evenly.