A UFO in Boca Raton

   Nobody is sure what it was, but for more than three hours Monday, a neon-green light floated above homes in Boca Raton.

   A police officer drove out to see what was the fuss Monday. “One of the officers said he saw the green light,” a spokeswoman for the department told TCPalm.

   “It pretty much darted across the sky, it zig-zagged a bunch of times, did a bunch of crazy flips,” said Ryan Helfrich, 19. He said about 40 neighbors came outside and watched the lights float about a half-block from where it was first spotted. They said the object just “faded away” after midnight.

   Eric Vandernoot, an astronomer at Florida Atlantic University, guessed that it could have been a hoax. He said someone could have flashed a green laser onto a balloon or something else floating in the sky.

   “It sounds like it might be a balloon, a weather balloon,” said Dwayne Brown, a NASA spokesman. “We certainly get our share of calls. Some of the times it can be anything from a piece of falling debris from somewhere. It could be a meteorite.”

Comments

[Bobbert]

A meteorite!! Give me a break. It was obviously swamp gas.

[North Carolina John]

Hey Mr. Brown, since when have meteorites, weather ballons and falling bebris manage to change directions and such. DON"T take people for idiots.

[Tideswellman]

Thes eofficials trot out the same old tired stoies all the time...

swamp gas, balloons, lasers. Just admit its Aliens or black Projects..we know already.

[D.Blue]

Lets see......
Boca Raton is next to the Everglades (SWAMP).
Boca Raton is also full of flatulent seniors (GAS).
SO, It is settled.
It is SWAMP GAS!!!!

[Mike]

"The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."

[rick]

ok,just one thing,40 ppl outside ,ok where are the pictures.it is what it is who cares i just would like to see the pix.thats all

[Rog]

I heard the Air Force released a statement that it was a bunch of crash test dummies who went out to eat and developed a bad case of swamp gas.

[Incrediboy]

No wait...it was the angle of the dangle in portion to the mass of the....aaahh..forget it. It's all too weird anyway.

[MorganMUFON]

To date it is still UFO by definition. It was also viewed by witnesses through binoculars and film. My name is Morgan Beall and I am the MUFON field investigator assigned to this case. If you or someone you know witnessed this event please make a formal report to www.mufon.com or myself directly at morgan.fl.mufon@gmail.com

This is a serious subject matter to us and we are working hard to find the facts.

If you would like to see the reports made got to MUFONs website and use the data base to find the reports. There are photos but all were taken with a digital camera. The sighting continued a few nights later but this time it was a blue light dismissing the green laser theory. The solid object was described as the shape of a grain of rice and positioned upright.

[Terri]

Great. More illegal aliens.