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big white orb almost like a tiny planet and all of a sudden this big ray came out of it. It was all white. 20:56:03 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."
It looks like a passing comet or a giant, luminous amoeba. But this was pure rocket science. The cloud was created by a Black Brant XII sounding rocket launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket released a cloud of electrically-charged aerosols near the top of Earth's atmosphere to investigate the formation of noctilucent clouds or "NLCs."
Originally posted by Did you see them
"We were just walking and talking that sort of thing and I looked up into the sky. 20:50:42 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. 20:56:03 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."
Originally posted by Did you see them
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. 20:56:03 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."
The phones started ringing around 7:30 pm EDT on Saturday night, Sept. 19th. All along the US Atlantic seaboard, police stations and news desks received reports of strange lights in the sky. John A. Blackwell of Exeter, New Hampshire, snapped this picture of the phenomenon:
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, it refers to to sound, which means to throw a weighted line off of a ship to gauge the water's depth. It is intended here as taking a measurement.
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.