LiveScience.com: Strange Circles of Light Explained

This article tried to explain away “light circles” as an ordinary phenomena called “reflection”. The next thing you know, they’ll be trying to tell us that mirrors aren’t portals to a parallel universe.

“It certainly is a curious reflection of sunlight on some windows,” says Stefano Bagnasco, a physicist at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Turin, and a member of the Italian skeptic group CICAP. “I was able to directly observe some of these ’signs,’ and in each case the building in front of which they appeared was completely covered with windows. Whenever the sun was in the right position to strike this reflecting surface, it would immediately produce the phenomenon. This is something that can certainly appear as quite odd, since these reflections cannot take place when both the windows and the building in front of it are perpendicular to the ground (unless the sun is very low on the horizon). But it happens quite frequently with inclined or open windows, like those found in modern buildings.”

I don’t know about Turin, but no modern buildings ’round these parts have windows you can open!

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