At approximately 7:30 p.m. the Oswego City Police Department began receiving numerous phone calls regarding strange light sources and/or balls of fire over Lake Ontario directly north of the city.
Oswego City Police Department personnel made contact with the US Coast Guard- Oswego Station and were informed of the following:
At about 5:30 p.m. the US Coast Guard received a report of an unknown object in the waters of Lake Ontario just outside of the breakwall.
Coast Guard personnel were dispatched and as a result of their operation several flares were deployed into the sky.
Residents of the area are in no immediate danger from the flares.
The Oswego City Police Department has no further information regarding this incident.
© Oswega County TodayJudy Tuso Enwright shared this image of one of the flares going off over the lake this evening.
Judy Tuso Enwright shared this image of one of the flares going off over the lake this evening.
At about 5:30 p.m., Oswego Coast Guard received a call from someone claiming to have seen something in the water just outside Oswego Harbor.
Since the caller couldn't identify whether the object was a person or perhaps just a log, a search and rescue operation got under way.
A helicopter was called in to assist with the search.
As of 8 p.m., nothing had been found and the operation was still under way.
In the area near Oswego N.Y. is a lake triangle in league with the Bermuda Triangle. Well known locally but not widely known. The great lakes are full of such triangles and areas of strange activity.