Page 31 - The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper - June 2015 Edition

Fireball Sighting In State Of New York 31
UFO 2015: My Orange
Fireball Experience
Cheryl Costa
The last thing I expected on this trip was an
orange fireball sighting.
For nearly two years, I’ve been
reporting UFO stories and sightings that other
people have had. Yes, of course, I’ve had a few
UFO sightings in my youth and young adult
years, but nothing I can cite in recent years. That large black saucer-shaped object moving slowly
is, until this past week.
On June 6, 2015, there were seven of us
in a van returning from a conference in
Philadelphia. All of us were exhausted from
attending three days worth of conference
presentations and lectures. For the most part, the
return trip was uneventful. We stopped once on
Interstate 476 near Allentown for fuel and to get
something to eat. All of us thought the highlight
of the return trip was watching American
Pharaoh win the Triple Crown.
Later in the trip, we were on Interstate
81 northbound about 20 minutes north of
Scranton, PA near the exit for PA state route
374. As I was riding shotgun at about 9:05 p.m.
in the twilight blue northern sky, I saw an
Orange light. My first thought was it’s some
commuter aircraft with his front headlights on.
Then driver remarked, “What kind of aircraft is
that?… it’s really odd.”
The light appeared to be flying in a
zigzag manner, sort of like a bumble bee,
moving southward toward us. The driver and I
observed as it just seemed to stop and hover.
After a few minutes, we drove by its position to
the left of the highway. I laid my head on the
dash board and looked up at it as we passed.
If you held your arm out with a quarter,
that’s how big it appeared to be. The object was
clearly within the confines of the valley, so I
estimated its height to have been at 800 to 1000
feet. It was perfectly round and had a bright
pulsing orange luminance. I lost sight of it after
50 yards or so further down the highway, due to
tree cover.
The driver looked at me wide-eyed,
“Holy crap, we just saw an orange orb!”
I pulled out my phone, turned on the
voice recorder and logged all the details that we
both recalled while it was fresh. The driver and
I talked about orange fire ball UFO for 30
minutes after the sighting, with questions from
the other passengers who didn’t get to see what
we saw.
Like everyone I’ve ever interviewed, the
image of that object is indelibly in my memory.
Let’s look at some recent UFO sightings from
around New York State
May 28, 2015: at about 1 a.m. a resident
of Middle Grove, NY observed two star like
objects traveling north to south on either side of
Cassiopeia.
May 28, 2015: at about 9:40 p.m. a
Middletown, NY couple saw a bright sphere
shaped object west of town. They report that a
light was illuminating through some circles in a
cross pattern, with the brightest light in the
center.
May 29, 2015: at about 10 p.m. several
Coram, NY residents witnessed several
spherical objects flying in a formation pattern
that would be nearly impossible for known air
crafts to do in such close quarters and at such
high speed.
May 30, 2015: at about 9 p.m. a
Hamburg, NY resident reported observing a
from north to south. Although the object was
low, he reported it was so smooth that he
couldn’t see any distinctive features.
June 3, 2015: at about 9:45 p.m. A
Bouckville, NY resident witnessed three bright
brassy orange illuminated objects, flying in
loose formation, seen at an approximate altitude
of 1500 feet moving southeast to northwest.
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a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one
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Was it a ghost? An
extraterrestrial? UFO
appearances have been caught
on camera at a Buddhist
Monastery and Jewish
Synagogue.
Buddhist monks in China have reportedly
sighted a UFO at their monastery in China. The
visitation which occurred around 11 p.m. took
place in the Baita Temple located in Anhui,
China and was captured by surveillance
cameras. In the footage of the UFO, a saucer
shaped object is seen hovering around the
temple before entering the temple hall where it
hovers at an increased frequency before flying
off away from the camera’s reach. The incident
has elicited both skepticism and excitement
about the possibility of an extra-terrestrial or
paranormal visit. To the monks however, they
have been left astonished with the strange
sightings.
The first person at the scene, Father Shi
Xing Kong said he was responding to the alarms
which went off when the UFO flew in to the
Temple’s main hall. When he first got outside,
he could not see anything out of place, but after
looking at the security monitors he was
surprised by the UFO which is seen as a bright
white saucer shaped object. The discovery was
only possible after the object got into the main
hall where infra-red alarms were located and
were triggered.
The sighting as expected has triggered
off a debate and speculation online as to what
could the UFO actually be. To many skeptics, it
is not an extra-terrestrial visitation. Several
explanations have been put forward although
none quite explain everything and others have
already been dismissed. For instance, one
explanation is that the object was likely caused
device like a drone or toy plane. However the
shape, and the heavy downpour that night rule
out such a cause. To others, the image was
certainly caused by a ball of lightening given
the weather and the bright light. This has been
dismissed by a meteorological expert who says
such a ball of lightening would have lasted only
few seconds and not the several minutes that the
image is seen in the footage.
The meteorologist offered his
explanation of the incident sighting an insect to
be a possible cause. The expert cites previous
experience with such videos where an insect
flies close to the monitor and causes the glaring
effect. This too has not convinced many and
given the lack of a cause that explains all the
aspects captured on the footage, people on
social media have continued to speculate on the
probability of an alien visit.
A synagogue in Ukraine had a similar
experience. Rabbi Michael Oishie of the
Zaporizhia synagogue shared CCTV footage
that depicted another ball of light floating
around that looks a lot like the one that appeared
in China. Viewers of this footage posited that
angels or ghosts might be making appearances
at religious institutions. It was also suggested
that these UFO appearances are instances of
“ball lightning” which is a natural observed
phenomenon which still does not have an
explanation, although several hypotheses have
been proposed over the years. []