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Earlier this month, what has been referred to as a ghost city appeared over the Xin’an River in the eastern Chinese city of Huanshan. For approximately four hours, buildings, mountains and trees could clearly be seen just above a thin cloud of mist that hovered over the river. The event had occurred following extensive rain and high humidity. Consequently, most reports refer to the phenomenon as a mirage, while others speculate that the appearance of the city was due to a vortex revealing another dimension. Despite the speculation, it is not known what created the vivid image, though the term mirage will be used for the purposes of this article.
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Video taken by the UK news network ITN, showed a woman looking upon the scene and saying, “It’s really amazing; it looks like a scene in a movie, in a fairyland.” This is not the first occurrence of a mirage in China. In 2006, the China Daily, an English language publication, printed four pictures of mirages off the coast of the Shandong Province. Mirages have occurred throughout the world, from Iceland to Japan, and have been the subject of the recounts of historical events. Despite the documentation and the endless number of pictures that can be found on the Internet, the clarity of the Xin’an event sets it apart and allows for much skepticism as to whether it was indeed simply a mirage. Mirages are optical illusions created by the bending of light rays as they pass through air with a high degree of variation in temperature.
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What was not determined from the news footage or the various articles about the event was whether any investigation took place at the site. The mirage lasted for four hours. During that time,were there any accounts of someone traveling along the river and changing their perspective of the city? As one moved closer to the image, did it disappear or actually appear in all dimensions from all angles? Was a boat taken to the image? Were any high-powered lenses used to look at the image? If this was a mirage, would any moving objects or people whose images were duplicated be shown in motion, more like a video feed? Or, would they be still? If anyone has found accounts beyond the general articles that are online and, essentially, provide the same information, please let us know.
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