Were they meteors? A comet? UFOs?
People from Maryland to Hampton Roads heard loud explosions and saw brilliant, streaking lights in the sky Sunday night.
There was no immediate explanation, the National Weather Service office in Wakefield said. The Virginia Beach 911 center had numerous calls waiting just before 10 p.m., a supervisor said.
The Weather Service said reports were made from Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border. People said they saw a streak in the sky and heard an explosion.
"It was orange, like a fireball," said Steve Wagner, who lives in the Great Bridge area of Chesapeake and said what he saw was too close to be a shooting star. Wagner was outside cooking with family when he saw the streak. He said he went inside when his daughter called, then heard an explosion that sounded like thunder.
Chris Wamsley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Wakefield office, said there could be various causes of the explosions and lights. A team of people is looking into what happened, he said.
This late-breaking news of UFO reports received from Ohio:
New Albany - 3/28/2009 The witness saw a commercial airliner traveling along a usual path when he noticed an object with lights blinking and moving slower than the aircraft. Upon observing the object with the aid of binoculars, the witness described the object as a rotating, rounded object, with three lights - two blinking (one red, one green). The object was "zipping" back and forth very quickly and was difficult to follow its movements through the binoculars.
Military personnel reported a UFO to a Missouri Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) field investigator regarding a March 1 incident over government property.
The investigator reports that the story originated in the Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri area. Fort Levenworth is nearby and just north of these two cities in Kansas.
The military personnel reported seeing a ball-shaped object at 10:30 p.m. Some of the witnesses stated that the object was 3,000 feet up, others said 200 feet. The silent object was described as a glowing gold color, slow moving, traveling only about 20 mph.
The military witnesses said that they feared being identified as they made their report.
In Elwood, Indiana on March 15, a witness reported observing 3 to 5 lights and one bright strobing light that appeared to be part of a large object, about two to three times the length of a bus. MUFON Indiana Chief Investigator Stewart Hill said the case is an "unknown."
A Pennsylvania witness in Barnesville, on March 25, saw four bright, revolving lights in a stationary position. The lights then began spinning in a circular motion. The witness pointed out that the area is over a state park with a large lake, and is wooded and very quiet.
An Ohio woman watched "unusual lights" in the sky March 28 at 3 a.m. She said the lights were rotating on a horizontal axis and were red and green. They were similar to chaser lights, she said, and blinking about 120 times per minute. While the disc-shaped object appeared to be hovering just above I-75, it then slowly descended behind some hills.
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A truly amazing UFO story has emerged from the Ukraine involving a veteran UFO hunter and some very confused townsfolk.
The residents of the Ukrainian town of Senelnikovo in the Dnepropetrovsk region had been seeing strange objects in the sky for weeks and were at a loss as to explain what they were. Many were suspecting that they were UFOs controlled by aliens. Talk of a UFO landing base near the Black Sea had been going on for decades.
A town resident called on a team of Ufologists headed by Mr Vladislav Kanuka, a veteran Ufologist with decades of experience, for help.
Posted: March 29, 2009
Date: March 23, 2009
Time: Approx: 10:04 p.m.
I just saw about an hour ago a weird orange light in the sky, over Thousand Oaks, Ca. As I was watching it, I saw it pick up speed until it eventually disappeared over the horizon toward Point Mugu. When I got home, I typed in "UFO sightings Point Mugu" and found your site w/the following entry:
Point Mugu In Southern California Orange Light Shooting Straight Up
Date: March 12, 2008
Time: 3:00 a.m.
Posted: March 29, 2009
Date: March 22, 2009
Time: 12:53 a.m.
Hello, I would like to report a possible UFO sighting which is a bit out of the ordinary in a way. So I was driving in Montreal, parallel to Sherbrooke Street, in an open area, the weather was coldish, yet no clouds and sunny. At exactly 12:53 my friend who was sitting next to me pointed to the sky, at 12 o'clock, there was three orb-like, (like ping-pong balls from distance) pearl white objects in the air at approx 1000ft above the ground and about 2km away from our vehicle.
The Pennsylvania region, including neighboring states, continue to be a hot bed of UFO activity. Among recently filed reports:
Barnesville, Pennsylvania - 3/25/2009 - A Barnesville family reported witnessing an object in a stationary position, with four very bright lights. The lights began to spin in a circular motion. One light went out, and a third light started to flicker then went out as well. A next door neighbor also witnessed the event.
Norristown, Pennsylvania - 3/25/2009 - Witness saw what he described as two bright lights in the distance which appeared to be stationary, similar to two towers with bright lights on top. The lights were moving, but at a very slow speed. After about ten minutes the lights were directly over the witness, flying at a very low altitude and speed. The lights were blinking white and would change to blinking red and blue, and then a non-blinking white light appeared. At first there were two of these objects, then two more followed. At this point, the witness began to look around him when he looked to the east and noticed three more similar objects. All of the objects exhibited the same characteristics. Finally, there was a total of 10-12 of the objects and they generally flew in pairs, at close proximity to one another, and there was absolutely no sound detected as they flew directly overhead. The entire event lasted for one hour before all of the objects flew away.
More strange lights have been spotted over Suffolk - this time not far from the county's most famous UFO incident.
The fast-moving silent light was seen to move in a pattern over Rendlesham Forest before suddenly disappearing.
UFO-logists claim the forest is still regularly visited by alien craft and is a portal to the stars, a sort of gateway by which spaceships can easily arrive and depart, and there have been many sightings in the area.
Supermarket delivery driver Justin Watson, of Ipswich, saw the latest unexplained light last week as he was travelling through the forest after making a delivery in Butley.
"As I was driving I looked into the sky to see a very bright light, what I thought was a star or very bright star/planet similar to Venus - however, I quickly noticed it was moving, at a medium speed across the sky," he said.
© Mapquest imagePoway, CA, is northeast of San Diego.
Two UFO low fly reports in two days caught witnesses off guard and without cameras in California and Texas - while three F18s apparently attempted to intercept in one case.
A Poway, California, witness was standing outside in the mid-day sunshine under a perfect blue sky March 27 when an oval-shaped bright light moved across the southern horizon over a 10-second period. Three minutes later two F18s traveling from the northeast moved into position where the witness lost sight of the object. The jets circled the area and then continued flying in a southwest direction. Thirty seconds later, a second F18 came from the same direction and "loitered" in the area for three minutes before moving southwest.
Miramar Marine Corps Air Station is just southwest of Poway.
In Texas on March 26, a witness reported watching a triangular-shaped object with 6 to 8 dim lights on the bottom moving silently across the sky at about 5,000 feet.
Kaufman County, Texas - 3/20/2009 - Two friends were driving east on interstate 80 when they noticed a very large vapor trail descending to earth. The object was a tear-drop shape, with a black center extending up half-way through the vapor trail. The object appeared to be above a thundercloud at an altitude of approximately 20,000-30,000 feet. The object then descended behind the thundercloud. The witness indicated the object was larger than conventional aircraft and appeared to be in a free-fall.
Austin, Texas - 3/23/2009 - Two witnesses traveling down a city street noticed a circle of purple lights hovering, bobbing, and doing a sort of spin to their left, while flying away from them. The object was described as being circular, possibly disc-shaped, with a ring of purple lights around it. As it bobbled, the underside became visible and there were four very bright blue lights underneath.
