A friend of mine reports repeatedly seeing small orbs (quail-egg size, he says) spontaneously light up on the ground just as he lit a cigarette after dark. It happened two years running, 2020 and 2021, in the fall. They were chartreuse when they flared. They did not always flare immediately after he lit the cigarette but sometimes would activate later "as if deciding to check me out after all."
The first year, there were two close together (barely an inch apart) in a certain spot, the next year there was just one, in a different spot (under a deck). They did not always appear when he lit his cigarette. This happened daily for a couple of weeks, from a couple of hours after sunset to midnight.
The luminescence was firefly-like. It didn't just stay on - nothing was lit when he sat down for his smoke and when they did flare the light faded quickly.
There are no physical indications during the daytime of what might be happening.
When he brought this up with a friend the friend said it had to be an animal, but my friend wonders, why an animal? His thought is it could be some kind of fungus. He found a science show about bioluminescence in fungus but it didn't really match what he was seeing. For example he saw no reference to a *reactive* flare which is what seemed to be happening.
The first year, there were two close together (barely an inch apart) in a certain spot, the next year there was just one, in a different spot (under a deck). They did not always appear when he lit his cigarette. This happened daily for a couple of weeks, from a couple of hours after sunset to midnight.
The luminescence was firefly-like. It didn't just stay on - nothing was lit when he sat down for his smoke and when they did flare the light faded quickly.
There are no physical indications during the daytime of what might be happening.
When he brought this up with a friend the friend said it had to be an animal, but my friend wonders, why an animal? His thought is it could be some kind of fungus. He found a science show about bioluminescence in fungus but it didn't really match what he was seeing. For example he saw no reference to a *reactive* flare which is what seemed to be happening.
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