Air carrier flight crew reported being distracted during an approach to dal by bright lights; which ...

Narrative:

While landing on 31L I was distracted by multiple very bright white lights that appeared to be on the west end of 31L facing directly down the runway. They gave the illusion of an aircraft on the runway with landing lights on. This was very distracting during the landing flare especially; and then rollout. I have not noticed these lights before. I queried ground control about it. Controller used his binoculars and relayed to me it looked like some lights at a gas station across the lake at the west end of the runway. I don't know if this is a recent lighting upgrade at this location; but I definitely feel an evaluation should be done as they appear during the landing flare and seem to be level with the runway.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported being distracted during an approach to DAL by bright lights; which appeared to emanate from a source outside the airport boundary.

Narrative: While landing on 31L I was distracted by multiple very bright white lights that appeared to be on the west end of 31L facing directly down the runway. They gave the illusion of an aircraft on the runway with landing lights on. This was very distracting during the landing flare especially; and then rollout. I have not noticed these lights before. I queried Ground Control about it. Controller used his binoculars and relayed to me it looked like some lights at a gas station across the lake at the west end of the runway. I don't know if this is a recent lighting upgrade at this location; but I definitely feel an evaluation should be done as they appear during the landing flare and seem to be level with the runway.

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Attributes
ACN	1667640
Time
Date	201907
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DAL.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 459 Flight Crew Type 13000
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Air carrier flight crew reported being distracted during an approach to dal by bright lights; which appeared to emanate from a source outside the airport boundary.