© Michael Brennan/Summer RockettYou may have to tilt your screen to see the cluster of lights. We added the square to show you where to look.
Charlotte, NC - Callers bombarded the WBTV phone lines Friday night to report a strange sighting in Ballantyne.
Several people claimed to see a cluster of 20 to 30 yellow/orange lights. "The lights moved in an extravagant way, not a way you'd expect a normal aircraft to move," wrote witness Michael Brennan. "The lights frequently vanished, and re-appeared many times then disappeared."
Hoping for an explanation, we made a call to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Duty Captain John Williams said he had no knowledge of any UFOs in Ballantyne Friday night or anywhere else in Charlotte.
We then showed a photo of the lights to WBTV Chief Meteorologist Eric Thomas. This was his response:
"The resolution of this picture (only 240x320... typical digital photos in this day and age are around 3,200 x 2,400) is too coarse to even hazard a guess. If they were looking north, there's a chance it was northern lights. Also, we are still within 24 hours of the peak of the Leonid Meteor shower, it's possible that could have been a big chunk which broke up into pieces creating a meteoric burst of lights. Again, I don't know if these 'lights' were moving quickly, moving slowly, or hovering. Also, occasionally atmospheric tests are conducted whereby a small missile is launched, releasing ionized gas which can sometimes be luminescent. This would result in more of a 'hovering' appearance to the light, perhaps drifting, then dissipating.".
idea just came into my mind. During Europe's dark ages we have indication but not proof unfortunately that aliens were involved in the whole mess spreading viruses we couldn't deal with and actually affecting people's mind accused of witchcraft while themselves didn't know what was going on in their heads. That's not difficult to do, strong unseen electromagnetic fields can do this to your head. If the same scenario is played all over again then the whole mess will get a lot messier than I thought. I don't like this...at all. It's one thing dealing with situations you know about and another dealing with a situation you don't know about. And what about all those telescopes turned towards the sky lately including those controlled by NASA. NASA is controlled by the USAF that's fine. We don't have defenses against something like this and the USAF knows that. What if "Skyline" isn't sci-fi after all but a warning that we are all so f...n' stupid that we are walking into a trap ? Laugh as much as you want at my comment but I'm not laughing anymore. Europe doesn't have that kind of protection and neither do the vast wastelands of Asia. There's only NOR.A.D. for this but responsible only for the U.S. and Canada. Considering the facts that we've been played before with diversions and ignored warnings that later proved to be true and also that they want us to know only what's been made public I don't think this thing is laughable anymore. And how many earthlings even on the upper levels know and how many are being kept out of the loop ? This isn't funny anymore...not that it was to begin with. And I haven't seen a credible U.F.O. report as credible as they can be, in a long time. I don't think Iran is the problem,never was in the first place that I DO know. But my best guess is that there's something they are not telling us and we are constantly ignoring while preoccupied with the usual BS.