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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''The Green Ray'' is a letter written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published in [[The Occult Review]] in october 1922.<br />
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== The Green Ray ==<br />
[[File:occult-review-1922-10-the-green-ray-p243-244.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Occult Review]] (october 1922, p. 243-244)]]<br />
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''To the Editor of the Occult Review.''<br />
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Dear Sir, — I have twice seen the Green Ray, once in the Mediterranean and once in the Atlantic. One needs a perfectly clear sunset without a trace of haze. Then just as the upper rim vanishes — or possibly a second later — there rises what is more like a puff of green smoke than anything else I can describe. I presume that it is an effect of refraction from the light shining through the curve of water, but I have never heard any scientific explanation.<br />
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As to the noise heard by the Irish ladies, I should guess that it was a meteorite flying low but slantwise to the earth's surface. That would, I think, produce the ever-increasing roar, and also enough atmospheric disturbance to bend the branches.<br />
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Yours faithfully, <br />
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br /><br />
CROWBOROUGH. <br />
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