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> おばさんもあきらかに危険に気づいたらしく、 ...  
>  It seemed that his aunt had also evidently noticed the danger and ...

Do あきらかに and らしく play nicely together in this sentence? It seems a bit
contratdictory to me. あきらかに is suggesting that the thing is obviously true
whereas らしく seems to be making that a mere conjecture.
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あきらかに and らしい describing the same event
This らしい can also express that something is typical of something's
characteristics. So it's more like the aunt noticed the danger, and she
appears to be behaving accordingly.
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I suspect this might be a matter of parsing.

I think you're looking at the phrase like this:

> おばさんもあきらかに（危険に気づいた）らしく

In this case, the あきらかに and らしく both apply to the core 危険に気付いた: she both
"clearly" noticed the danger, but also only "apparently" noticed it, and we
wind up with the apparent contradiction that you note.

Instead, we could parse this like so:

> おばさんも（あきらかに危険に気づいた）らしく

In this case, the あきらかに applies to the 危険に気付いた portion, and the らしく then
applies to this longer phrase: "it seems like" the aunt "clearly" noticed the
danger. Looked at this way, we avoid the contradiction.

Curious what others think, and I hope this helps. :)
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Probably what you are missing is that あきらかに is always (as far as I can think
of) a sentence modifier.

彼女は明らかに危険に気付いた can be translated _She clearly noticed the danger_ , which has
an ambiguity: (1) clearly noticed or (2) it is clear that she noticed. あきらかに
does not have this ambiguity and it is always (2). (I think _obviously_ works
similarly. It is always to the speaker that the thing is obvious).

らしい in 彼女は明らかに危険に気付いたらしい is a kind of weakener, making things indirect, as
often happens in Japanese. Literally, it is _It **seemed** clear that she
noticed the danger_ (as opposed to _It **was** clear..._). As a translation,
the second one in Eiríkr Útlendi's answer may be more natural.

So all in all, you interpreted it correctly but what you see as a
contradiction is not necessarily so.

* * *

FYI.

  * 彼女ははっきりと危険に気付いた

This one only means _She saw the danger clearly_ or _The danger was obvious to
her_. Appending らしい does not pose any contradiction - _It seemed (to me) that
the danger was obvious to her._

  * 彼女は明らかに眠っていた She was obviously asleep/It was obvious that she was asleep.

Here there is no ambiguity due to the meaning of _asleep_ (though _obviously
asleep_ may be less idiomatic). Note 彼女ははっきりと眠っていた is odd (as _to sleep
clearly_ is).

As a sentence modifier, 明らかに can be put in front. 明らかに彼女は... does not change
anything in the above sentences.
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明らかに～らしい sounds odd usually.

But this らしく(らしい) may be used when you hear something by someone.

Twitterで見たけど、社長が捕まったらしいよ  
友達から聞いたけど、教頭より校長の方が若いらしい

If you hear someone says おばさんもあきらかに危険に気づいた, then you can say
おばさんもあきらかに危険に気づいたらしく(らしい) without any problem.
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