Mysterious lights have been with us much longer than UFOs or UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) and they feature in the traditions and folklore of every culture. In 1972, Mark A Hall listed 46 locations across the world that have such traditions, including examples from Iraq, New Guinea, Australia, China and many in the USA. My own Spooklights: A British Survey (with Granville Oldroyd, privately published, 1985) listed half a dozen examples from the British Isles. Since then my database has expanded to include some 50 further examples collected from newspapers and folklore archives. Here is a sampler:
1864-70: The Whitburn lights, Northumberland
In 1865).
