Amateur Astronomer Jim Gillard of the Twillingate Observatory says whatever may have fallen into a pond near Badger wasn't a bird or a plane but it wasn't space junk either. VOCM's Renell LeGrow explains.

Dawe's Pond has certainly been the topic of conversation for many here in central this week - on Monday, Gillard made the trek west of Badger after reports that something struck the frozen pond with force, driving water up through the ice, freezing again in an odd ripple effect. Something certainly out of the ordinary, Gillard says, but today, he's confident in saying it was a natural occurrence.

Gillard says at 3:00 this morning, he left Twillingate and headed again to the area - this time to check out reports of two other similar discoveries on two other ponds, close in proximity to Dawe's Pond. Since Monday, enough slush has melted for a closer examination, and now he says cracks in the ice seem very natural and common. He says had it been a meteor, there would have been particles left behind. It's all still puzzling, and he has no idea what happened, but he says it's safe to rule out anything that might have dropped from outer space.

Meanwhile, a woman in central says she witnessed something unusual in the sky Sunday evening. Katrina says she saw two objects in a clear sky at about 7:40 Sunday evening over Grand Falls-Windsor.

She described both as dark, rectangular objects, with smoke coming from them, falling from the sky.

Katrina says they objects were big enough to pick out their shape, but says she has no idea what they were.

She says she could tell it wasn't an airplane. She was startled by the sight, and never thought to take a picture.