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===Oceania=== {{See also|Min Min light}} The [[Australia]]n equivalent, known as the Min Min light is reportedly seen in parts of the outback after dark.<ref name="perrigrew1">{{cite journal |author=Pettigrew, John D. |title=The Min Min light and the Fata Morgana. An optical account of a mysterious Australian phenomenon |journal=Clin Exp Optom |volume=86 |issue=2 |pages=109β120 |date=March 2003 |pmid=12643807 |doi=10.1111/j.1444-0938.2003.tb03069.x |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="kozicka1">Kozicka, M.G. "The Mystery of the Min Min Light". Bolton Imprint, Cairns 1994 {{ISBN?}}</ref> The majority of sightings are reported to have occurred in the [[Channel Country]] region.<ref name="perrigrew1" /> Stories about the lights can be found in aboriginal myth pre-dating western settlement of the region and have since become part of wider [[Australian folklore]].<ref name="perrigrew1" /> [[Indigenous Australians]] hold that the number of sightings has increased alongside the increasing ingression of Europeans into the region.<ref name="perrigrew1" /> According to folklore, the lights sometimes followed or approached people and have disappeared when fired upon, only to reappear later on.<ref name="perrigrew1" /><ref name="kozicka1" />
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