NASA Experiment May Have Caused Strange Light Seen in the Sky
NASA may have the answer to the light many people reported seeing in the sky Saturday night. According to NASA's web site, a rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere was conducted from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, launched on a NASA Black Brant XII Sounding Rocket. WFMZ's Stephanie Esposito reports.Viewers from all over our region called into 69 News tonight reporting a strange sight in the sky.
From Allentown and Bethlehem all the way to Berks county, everyone calling in described the same thing.
"We were just walking and talking that sort of thing and I looked up into the sky."
"There was like a big white orb almost like a tiny planet and all of a sudden this big ray came out of it. It was all white."
"All of a sudden a beam came down and it was white and blueish and all of a sudden the sky sucked it up and just closed.
>>REPORTER: Reports from Bethlehem to Berks County...
"I just keep thinking of the movie 'E.T.' "
>>REPORTER: Something unusual took place in the sky tonight.
"I would never have had time to take of picture of it. It just disappeared, the sky ate it."
>>REPORTER: So far, 69 news hasn't been able to obtain a picture... but we did get multiple witness reports.
We contacted the Lehigh Valley Airport and local communication centers and everyone said nothing was happening.
"A lot of times people hear of stuff like this and say oh it was a weather balloon or a shooting star? NO NO. It was not a shooting star and it was not a weather balloon."
>>REPORTER: One thing is for sure... tonight people are asking themselves, 'Do I believe?'
"I don't know if I believe in that sort of thing."
>>REPORTER: Some people have pointed out todays date... 9/19/09 as an odd coincidence.
Whether you believe in UFO's or not, the people who saw it agree, they've never seen anything like it before.
In Bethlehem Township, Stephanie Esposito, 69 News.
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