> So it wasn't car headlights in 1883 and "no ashes or other evidence of a campsite". ... and also not little green men from Mars nor up-close sightings of bal

> So it wasn't car headlights in 1883 and "no ashes or other evidence of a campsite". ... and also not little green men from Mars nor up-close sightings of ball lighting in 120 years. The distances here are large (potentially 10's of miles with mountains) and the phenomena occur at dusk/night/dawn. It would be very hard to localize such lights by merely eyeballing it and then walking for hours over rugged desert to where it looked like it came from.