Posted on 05/05/2010 11:07:02 AM PDT by JoeProBono
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Boca Raton police fielded plenty of telephone calls Monday night about a strange light hovering in the sky.
A WPBF 25 News viewer sent home video of the floating light.
Michael Speer said he got a call from one of his friends who told him to come to Camino Real to watch the unusual light show in the sky.
"It kind of looked like a star -- just a little white light -- and it just started moving around all weird-like, making all kinds of loops and just moving really strangely," Speer said.
Speer said cars were lined up along Camino Real with people trying to sneak a peak. The show lasted about an hour.
"It was pretty crazy," he said. "I didn't expect to see so many people out there. It was wild."
An observer told police that the light was an LED bicycle light attached to a kite. That observer tried to pick it up to bring it to police, but a girl ran by him, grabbed it and fled the scene.
Even after learning the truth, though, Speer admitted the sighting had him thinking UFO.
"It crossed my mind," he said.
Boca Raton, the island of rats!
LOL, that guy thinks he is The Great White Hunter on safari!
police say the light was an LED bicycle light attached to a kite. And last year someone tied road flairs to a baloon.
That begs the question - Why didn’t we as kids think of cool stuff to do like this?
Because when we were kids a bicycle light ran on a generator rubbing against the back tire.
I did, but on a smaller scale. I slaved away for 3 weeks hand-picking potatoes as a kid to earn $35 to buy a fancy new wristwatch. It probably had enough radium on the dial to alert the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now, but in those days we were all amazed to see how it glowed in the dark.
I'd had it about a week and one night I was bunking with my Dad at our ranch. After half an hour or so, when his snores were even and robust, I decided to get smart. I held my glowing watch out at arm's length and made circles in the absolute darkness with it. It looked pretty spooky. I elbowed my Dad in the ribs and exclaimed with alarm: "Dad, what's that?"
He was a man of pure action. He snorted, sat up, and smacked my watch into the wall so hard it could never be repaired. That's how cool practical jokes in the "olden days" used to work out.
“Why didn’t we as kids think of cool stuff to do like this?”
Speak for yourself. As a kid, I clipped a baseball card into the spokes of my bike, and everyone thought I had a motorcycle. Wild, man! Really wild...
The health department made my dad build a lead box for his vials of radium compound and keep them in a safe.
It was cool watching him tape those hefty 1/4” plates into a box maybe 5 inches on each edge.
He provided special ventilators at the dial painting workstations, and also for the lead-box stash in the safe, which would vent radon to the outdoors.
Early in the 20th century, dial painters (mostly women) would arrange the tips of their radium brushes by passing them between their lips. Lotta deaths from cancer, eventually.
By the time Dad was in charge of this shop, the danger was well known and they didn’t do that any more.
Good one. Reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode when the boys were faking a flying saucer to scare the girls.
My grandmother died from cancer attributed to having done this.
A little girl ran off with it, yeah, that happens all the time.
LOL
Home made H2 to fill balloons
tied shut with connon fuse
lit
then released
pretty flash in sky
times 20, really cool.
Dry cleaner plastic bag, held open with thin strips of bamboo, held over a Coleman one burner to fill
birthday candle on bamboo
then released
floating lights in the sky.
Likely go to jail today for doing this. Don’t ask about the fireworks.
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