Strange Lights Over South Carolina

What Was That? Strange Lights In Upstate Skies

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Dozens of WYFF 4 viewers called and e-mailed us to report seeing some strange blue lights in the night sky Wednesday.

The lights appeared at about 8:15 p.m., according to the reports.

Reports came from areas near Paris Mountain and also from Gaffney.

"A blue light streaked across the sky in the Gaffney area. The light ... moved from the Greenville-Spartanburg area toward Huntersville, N.C.," Terry Coyle said. "The object had a bluish green tail about two miles long."

Law enforcement agencies also report receiving calls about the lights, and WYFF4.com correspondent Scott Wilson of Gastonia, N.C., also said he saw similar lights in the direction of the Upstate.


There are reports of similar sightings from as far away as Europe. Click here for a story reported by the BBC about strange lights in the night sky above Wales.

Source:http://www.wyff4.com/weather/10841468/detail.html

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911 Callers Report Lights In The Sky

Emergency dispatchers around Charlotte handle wacky 911 calls each night. But Wednesday, agencies got the same type of unusual call:
A hovering light was in the sky.
Others described it as a plane that might be in trouble. A blueish glow. A fire in the sky. A light moving too slow to be a plane.
The calls came into Iredell, Lincoln, Mooresville and Huntersville emergency dispatchers around 8 p.m. -- with even a dispatcher's dad calling in a sighting and one Lincoln County officer reportedly seeing it.
Even stranger, the National Weather Service's Greer, S.C., office got similar calls around the same time in their area. But folks in between, in York, Gaston and Cleveland counties, had no 911 reports.
Take note, the Federal Aviation Administration had no reports of plane crashes. Huntersville police also dispatched an officer to look for the mysterious object.

Source:http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/breaking_news/16539378.htm