A STRANGE LIGHT.

Evening Star, Issue 19841, 14 April 1928, Page 5

A STRANGE LIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir —Referring to the letter in your issue ’of yesterday signed “ Aoiigu ’’ with reference to the brilliant ball or light seen by him in the eastern sky at 5e15 a.m. on 'Tuesday in close proximity to a bright star, except possibly as regards its circling movement your correspondent was under no optical illusion. The brilliant globe of light was seen by mo at the same hour from the dwelling at which 1 was sojourning on the bills mimic hundreds of feet above tlie town of Roxburgh, and a very arresting sight it was. I took it lo be tlio headlight oi a motor car coming over the crest of the hill, but as no car passed within a. lew minutes i looked out again, and the bright light was still there, hut .somewhat dimmer on account of increasing daylight. The star was also visible above it. Hie sight was certainly unusual, and caused the remark that it must bo ‘ the stai of the east.” _ . From inquiries made in likely quarters 1 think it must have been the planet Venus, which rises a little before the sun, but it so the very clear atmosphere must have made it appear more brilliant than I ever remember to have seen it. —I am, etc., Wm. R. F. Fraser. April 13.