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Brown Mountain

Also: Brown Mountain lights

anomaly no band 1913–2026 status · verified entity United States, Burke County, North Carolina

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Brown Mountain from Beacon Heights
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Brown Mountain from Beacon Heights

Brown Mountain from Beacon Heights, October 2016. Daytime landscape. Location context — not a photograph of any reported object.

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A ridge in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina, where lights have been reported since at least 1913. US Geological Survey studies attributed most to trains, cars and brush fires. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.

Where the pin is

35.9200, -81.7500 exact

Brown Mountain summit from public gazetteer.

Burke County, North Carolina, United States

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