The Min Min Lights: The Outback Lights That Follow Travellers

The roadside sign at Boulia, Queensland: 'For the next 120km you are in land of the Min Min Light — this unsolved modern mystery is a light that at times follows travellers for long distances, it has been approached but never identified'

About 5 min readFor more than a century, travellers on the empty roads of western Queensland have reported glowing balls of light that follow them for kilometres, then vanish. Science has a strong answer — a mirage that lifts distant lights over the horizon — but not every sighting fits it.