Anchorettes don't understand the difference between vertical and horizontal, lol.
Anytime there are stories like this, ALL the stuff that is being said by the reporters has to be considered to be about 10% useful information, 20% complete distortions, and the rest just ignorant. That is why I KNEW that some of the people were reporting AGL, and some MSL, altitudes. It went up to 7-8,000 MSL—— which was 2-4,000 above the ground of that area.
Apparently they have searched his home now, by the way... no joy.