[meteorite-list] Odd Lights, Low Sounds Cause Stir in Maine

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:48:36 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200702141748.JAA16709_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.sunjournal.com/story/199131-3/Franklin/Odd_lights_low_sounds_cause_stir/

Odd lights, low sounds cause stir
By Maggie Gill-Austern
Sun Journal (Maine)
February 14, 2007

FARMINGTON - Strange lights with no obvious cause were spotted all over
northern Franklin County Tuesday night, Sheriff's Department dispatchers
said.

"The phone was ringing off the hook," dispatcher Bill Hoyt said.

Multiple callers from multiple towns - New Vineyard, Wilton, Phillips,
Industry, and around Mt. Abram - called to report bizarre,
low-to-the-ground lights, he said.

"They were seeing, basically, a string of seven or eight lights low in
the sky, that were fixed," he said. "There (were) also reports of jet
engine noise low to the ground." One person who called worked with jet
airplanes, Hoyt said. "They were not like any lights he had ever seen."
Some people said they looked like stars.

Hoyt called a Federal Aviation Administration office in Boston, which
monitors air traffic in this part of New England, wondering if what
people saw and heard could be related to military exercises.

"They said the only air traffic was a couple of routine air flights at
40,000 feet," he said.

Hoyt doubts it was aliens.

"I think, personally, most of the time there's an explanation for
everything," he said. "But you know, I don't deny the fact that people
see things they can't explain."

"It was kind of odd," he said. "All these reports were from different
locations at the same time. Maybe it was a meteorite."

The jet-engine sounds and the fixed-ness of the light pattern make him
question that theory, though, he said.
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