The mother ship landed, and this just walked out of it!
Posted on 09/21/2005 10:34:46 AM PDT by woofie
Dozens of people from Jacksonville to Ft. Pierce flooded the U.S. Coast Guard late Tuesday with calls about a mysterious ball of fire seen flying in the sky, according to a Local 6 News report.
Callers flooded the newsroom of Local 6 News partner Florida Today after they saw the object over the Space Coast Tuesday night.
"Starting at about 7:30 last night, we started receiving calls here in the newsroom," Florida Today online news editor Dave Larimer said. "In fact, the Coast Guard station in Port Canaveral got more than two dozen reports of people seeing a bright light in the sky over the ocean."
From Fort Pierce to about five miles south of Jacksonville, reports came in to Coast Guard offices starting about 7:30 p.m., said Dan Yates, a Coast Guard petty officer in Port Canaveral.
Yates said one caller who was walking his dog near the Sebastian Inlet described the object as "huge, like a giant fireball."
Yates said callers to the Coast Guard station thought a boater might have been in trouble. "A lot of people thought it might have been a flare that might have gone up," Yates said of other callers.
"One person thought this fire ball went into the ocean," Larimer said. "The Coast Guard said it probably didn't and it was just his perspective. We know it was not a rocket launch and we know the Air Force was not doing anything."
Experts said it could be a piece of space junk or a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere.
The Coast Guard base near Jacksonville also received calls.
Babs Angel, a public affairs spokeswoman for Patrick Air Force Base, said no local military activity was taking place Tuesday night.
The sun emitted a large burst of energy just recently (last week) and they may be from that.
"Its the mother ship the guy was talking about on Hannity the other night."
Was he a kook or what?
I heard that!
Good thing I just got home or I would have laughed myself off the road.
That's a good one! HA!
Considering the time (the moon didn't rise until around 9:30 p and this thing was seen around 7:30 p), it was most likely the setting sun reflecting on a silver jetliner from Miami moving north to D.C. or NYC.
Ball Lightening!
They're Triffids! Don't look. Cover your eyes!
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