Spook Light

[HVF]

Growing up in Joplin, MO in the 1940's and 50's, I have witnessed what was called the "Spook Light" or the "Hornet Spook Light," since it's near a crossroad called Hornet I went a couple of times. It appears after dark. Looking down an old country road about a quarter mile or more away, the light appeared about 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon. The nights I was there it didn't move. And it was reasonably bright. Others who saw it had different experiences.

As this video shows, the Light has been studied by some serious investigators. But they couldn't agree on a cause. It is a UFO in the sense that it is an Unidentified Floating Object. None of us at the time thought it was anything extraterrestrial, although the Flying Saucer craze was popular then.

Anyone here see anything similar. Or has anyone here seen this Spook Light? Or, better yet, has anyone got an answer as to what it really is? (By the way, the car you see with people standing behind it in the video is a 1953 Pontiac.)



Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u24EA3_2ag

 

[Mick West]

Where is the crossroads, and what direction are they looking in?

 

[NoParty]

Wikipedia sure isn't impressed:

"It is caused by the misidentification of distant car headlights."

"...headlights of cars driving east on Route 66 are unexpectedly visible in the distance..."

"The first to recognize this in print was AB MacDonald in a January 1936 issue of the Kansas City Star.[2]​ This has been demonstrated repeatedly by experiments in which fireworks, spot lights, and flashing car headlights along Route 66 have been seen by observers posted on Spooklight Road."

"...storytellers have created mythologies about the Spooklight to purport that it existed before cars[6]​[1]​ but none of these claims can be verified by any printed sources."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spooklight