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Limited Edition (3)
43 × 64.5” print on archival paper.
One night, while heading home after a late surf at Angourie, I had to walk the last few miles to the house along a deserted country road lit only by moonlight. The wind tossed the surrounding sugar cane making an eerie soundtrack for my growing fear. I sensed that I was not alone and the hair on the back of my neck began to prickle and stand up. Turned around to see if anyone was following, but could not see anything in the gloom. Just then, the two distant lights that I thought were stars began to hurtle towards me at unimaginable speed. Dropping to head height these twin glowing orbs of light, about the size of basketballs, came to a sudden stop only a matter of metres from where I stood immobilised with fear.
They hovered there as though observing me. I could not gauge if they meant harm but something told me to flee. Turning on my heels I ran as fast as I could towards the house with the orbs following but keeping their distance. After running some way I stopped again, exhausted. The orbs also stopped and hovered again for a while before flashing away across the sugar cane field. I had not been harmed and I never spoke of these events believing that people may think I had made it all up or lost my mind.
Many years later an old Aboriginal woman put a name to the orbs. She told me that I had been followed by Min Min lights. Her people, the Bundjalung, had always known about these phenomena, but she could not tell me if they were spirits or extraterrestrials. Sightings of Min Min lights in northern NSW and SE Queensland have become more frequent in recent years perhaps because the population along the eastern seaboard has grown considerably.
Limited Edition (3)
43 × 64.5” print on archival paper.
One night, while heading home after a late surf at Angourie, I had to walk the last few miles to the house along a deserted country road lit only by moonlight. The wind tossed the surrounding sugar cane making an eerie soundtrack for my growing fear. I sensed that I was not alone and the hair on the back of my neck began to prickle and stand up. Turned around to see if anyone was following, but could not see anything in the gloom. Just then, the two distant lights that I thought were stars began to hurtle towards me at unimaginable speed. Dropping to head height these twin glowing orbs of light, about the size of basketballs, came to a sudden stop only a matter of metres from where I stood immobilised with fear.
They hovered there as though observing me. I could not gauge if they meant harm but something told me to flee. Turning on my heels I ran as fast as I could towards the house with the orbs following but keeping their distance. After running some way I stopped again, exhausted. The orbs also stopped and hovered again for a while before flashing away across the sugar cane field. I had not been harmed and I never spoke of these events believing that people may think I had made it all up or lost my mind.
Many years later an old Aboriginal woman put a name to the orbs. She told me that I had been followed by Min Min lights. Her people, the Bundjalung, had always known about these phenomena, but she could not tell me if they were spirits or extraterrestrials. Sightings of Min Min lights in northern NSW and SE Queensland have become more frequent in recent years perhaps because the population along the eastern seaboard has grown considerably.