Post by swamprat on Apr 3, 2011 15:36:35 GMT -6
Or "sky lanterns"?
ABC News
UFOs Over Chicago? Strange Lights in Sky Caught on Video
Row of Unexplained Lights Seemed to Move and Blink Together
By DEAN SCHABNER
April 3, 2011
A strange group of lights moving together across the Chicago sky Saturday night has some residents there wondering if what they saw were UFOs.
One of those people, Nicole Dragozetich, caught the unexplained phenomenon on her cell phone video camera.
She said she was driving down 35th Street and Western on Chicago's South Side at approximately 8 p.m. Saturday when she noticed at least a dozen people stopped in their tracks, staring at the sky.
The video she shot shows a line of several lights seeming to fly together low in the nighttime sky. The lights were orange, and they all seemed to blink together.
At first they were traveling in a straight line, but then formed different patterns.
On the video voices of the people watching the lights can be heard saying, "They came from Roswell," and "That's creepy. I want to know what it is."
Mark Bishop, meteorologist ABC station WLC-TV in Chicago said there were no unusual weather occurrences in the area Saturday evening reported by the National Weather Service.
Read more and see video: abcnews.go.com/Technology/ufos-chicago-strange-lights-sky-caught-video/story?id=13286974
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NBC Chicago
Woman Spots UFOs Over Southwest Side
Community group says it released "sky lanterns" last night
Sunday, Apr 3, 2011 | Updated 3:51 PM
Were the strange lights over Chicago’s Southwest Side last night the work of alien intelligence? Secret military test-flights? A bizarre, slow-moving meteor shower? The answer seems to be much more mundane than all that.
Nicole Dragozetich, 31, spotted the lights around 8 p.m. at 35th and Western. As she was heading to pick up her takeout dinner from a local restaurant, she noticed people standing in front of their homes, staring into the sky. So, she stopped to take a look herself, and immediately spotted a group of strange, slow-moving lights.
“You could see them – just moving down the street. And they took form. At one point, it looked like an arrow,” Dragozetich told CBS2Chicago.
Dragozetich said the lights were orange, at the pattern they made was at times symmetrical, at times not.
It turns out, an organization was holding a rally against child abuse nearby at 35th and Archer, and released several "sky lanterns" at 7:30 p.m. A representative of the group, known as the Baby James Foundation, told CBS he thinks that's what Dragozetich saw.
Read more: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Woman-Spots-UFOs-Over-Southwest-Side-Chicago-lights-in-the-sky-119149179.html#ixzz1IUvbniMk
ABC News
UFOs Over Chicago? Strange Lights in Sky Caught on Video
Row of Unexplained Lights Seemed to Move and Blink Together
By DEAN SCHABNER
April 3, 2011
A strange group of lights moving together across the Chicago sky Saturday night has some residents there wondering if what they saw were UFOs.
One of those people, Nicole Dragozetich, caught the unexplained phenomenon on her cell phone video camera.
She said she was driving down 35th Street and Western on Chicago's South Side at approximately 8 p.m. Saturday when she noticed at least a dozen people stopped in their tracks, staring at the sky.
The video she shot shows a line of several lights seeming to fly together low in the nighttime sky. The lights were orange, and they all seemed to blink together.
At first they were traveling in a straight line, but then formed different patterns.
On the video voices of the people watching the lights can be heard saying, "They came from Roswell," and "That's creepy. I want to know what it is."
Mark Bishop, meteorologist ABC station WLC-TV in Chicago said there were no unusual weather occurrences in the area Saturday evening reported by the National Weather Service.
Read more and see video: abcnews.go.com/Technology/ufos-chicago-strange-lights-sky-caught-video/story?id=13286974
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NBC Chicago
Woman Spots UFOs Over Southwest Side
Community group says it released "sky lanterns" last night
Sunday, Apr 3, 2011 | Updated 3:51 PM
Were the strange lights over Chicago’s Southwest Side last night the work of alien intelligence? Secret military test-flights? A bizarre, slow-moving meteor shower? The answer seems to be much more mundane than all that.
Nicole Dragozetich, 31, spotted the lights around 8 p.m. at 35th and Western. As she was heading to pick up her takeout dinner from a local restaurant, she noticed people standing in front of their homes, staring into the sky. So, she stopped to take a look herself, and immediately spotted a group of strange, slow-moving lights.
“You could see them – just moving down the street. And they took form. At one point, it looked like an arrow,” Dragozetich told CBS2Chicago.
Dragozetich said the lights were orange, at the pattern they made was at times symmetrical, at times not.
It turns out, an organization was holding a rally against child abuse nearby at 35th and Archer, and released several "sky lanterns" at 7:30 p.m. A representative of the group, known as the Baby James Foundation, told CBS he thinks that's what Dragozetich saw.
Read more: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Woman-Spots-UFOs-Over-Southwest-Side-Chicago-lights-in-the-sky-119149179.html#ixzz1IUvbniMk