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[See the below URL for a picture and video of the formation, links, and the
related stories that are listed at the end of the article. --MS]
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ufo_nj010719.html
[PICTURE: At least 15 people contacted police to report seeing strange
lights in the New Jersey sky over the weekend. The lights were captured on
a video, a frame of which is here. (ABCNEWS.com)]
Emotional Resonance
Experts Probe Meaning of New Jersey Lights
By Dean Schabner
July 19 - A set of golden lights hovering silently in the night sky in a
"V" formation stopped traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, but were the
drivers seeing visitors from outer space or just a set of military flares
flaming out?
More than a dozen people, including two Carteret, N.J., police officers,
saw the lights last weekend, and several of the witnesses described a sense
of serenity that seemed to emanate from the celestial display. The gold
lights hovered for awhile, according to the witnesses, and then
disappeared.
To some, the description sounded very much like the so-called Phoenix
Lights, another V formation that appeared in the sky near Phoenix in March
1997. Like the apparition in New Jersey, the Phoenix lights were caught on
videotape.
The formation also matches reports of unexplained lights in the sky from
all across the United States, as well as England and Europe.
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said that there were no
planned military operations in the area and that air traffic was light at
the time of the reported sightings. He also said that no pilots flying in
or out of Newark Airport reported seeing anything out of the ordinary.
To Michael Hathorne - who has written several books about UFOs and hosts a
program on community television in the Tampa, Fla., area and a weekly
Webcast about unexplained sightings - what was seen in New Jersey certainly
was extraordinary.
"It's certainly unusual," Hathorne said. "From my experience it sounds like
something very anomalous, a true UFO or even an extraterrestrial craft. But
of course it could turn out to be something else. Most of them do."
[LINK: Click here to see Chris Wallace's Internet Exposé on the UFO
phenomenon.]
A Work in Progress
He said that of the more than 1,000 sightings reported to him each year,
more than 80 percent turn out to have earthly explanations.
Colm Kelleher of the National Institute of Discovery Science says that from
what he's heard, this one fits into that category. He said based on a
preliminary investigation, it sounds like the Jersey Lights were a set of
military flares.
The same explanation was given for lights seen over Arizona four years ago.
One of the half-dozen witnesses who have spoken to the institute used
infrared night-vision glasses with a rangefinder to look at the lights,
Kelleher said. He reported that the lights were just 1,800 feet up, which
should have been close enough to see the outlines of a vessel, if there was
one.
Several witnesses, including the retired military man who used the
night-vision equipment, described a kind of flare-out as the lights
disappeared. The retired military man also said that he saw smoke after the
lights disappeared, according to Kelleher.
"This is early days, though," he added. "We want to talk to more
eyewitnesses. This is a work in progress."
What struck several people who study sightings of unexplained lights or
objects in the sky was the emotional weight they gave it.
"There is something about it that strikes them deeply," said Michael
Mannion, author of Project Mindshift, The Re-education of the American
Public Concerning Extraterrestrial Life 1947-Present.
"When people tell about a sighting even 15 years later, that emotion comes
through. You don't get that a lot with things that turn out to be mistaken
sightings," he said.
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RELATED STORIES:
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- Group Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info
- UFO Tracker Shuts Down
- Chinese Report UFO Sightings
- UFOs or Light Show?
- Remembering Jimmy Carter's UFO Encounter
- Scientist Proposes UFO Study
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