© John Chumack/FILE PHOTOComing to a neighbourhood near you soon? Another fireball streaks through the sky.
The U.S. Coast Guard Canal Station in Sturgeon Bay responded to a sighting of an off-shore white flare near Jacksonport Tuesday night.
"We had a call at approximately 9:15 p.m. local time of one white flare an undetermined distance off the shore" near Jacksonport, said BMC Justin Longval, executive petty officer at the station.
A white flare does not necessarily mean distress - a distress flare is red - but the Coast Guard launched its 45-foot response boat and called in an aircraft from the Air Station in Traverse City, Mich., for the search.
The Coast Guard searched by air and water for two hours without finding anything or anyone, Longval said.
A helicopter from Traverse City conducted a first-light search Wednesday morning. It found nothing.
"It's always better to report it" and make sure there is nothing there, he said.
The Coast Guard has received no reports of missing persons or vessels and concluded the sighting may not have been flare.
"Meteorite, falling star, whatever you want to call it," Longval said. There is no way to know.
Debris Field dead ahead. Earthship Titanic sails the waters of the Galaxy, full speed ahead, only this boat has no rudder, no captain to blame, no indulgence to make others feel guilty over, no profit to be had, no treasures, homes or lands to steal, no evil empires to declare noble war on, no dictators to topple or civilian populations to save via shock & awe.
Nothing to do but sweep the dirt of ignorance and failed leadership under the rug and hope nobody notices.