Officer Sights Strange Lights Over Lisbon
LISBON. -- Another "flying object" has made its appearance in the district.
This time it was a glowing disc-like light sighted over
Lisbon early today by Police Officer Richard Koffel, who failed
to obtain confirmation from sheriff's Deputy Dave Brothers, 10 miles away near Salem.
Koffel said the meteor he saw on the midnight turn several weeks
ago didn't compare with what he witnessed at 5:20 a.m. today
as he stood in the Eagles Home parking lot.
He said the light was about 60 degrees up the eastern sky
and had no distinct outline except for being "round and flat with a little
peak at the top."
He said it appeared to glow "like those radiation things on TV."
He notified the sheriff's office by radio, asking
the night deputy to take a look. When Koffel glanced at the
sky again, the light had changed shape to a long shaft -
an elongated teardrop. This remained until sunrise, dimming
as the sky brightened. [Noctilucent cloud?]
"Look east and tell me what you see," was Koffel's request of Brother.
The deputy radioed, "Stars and clouds."
Koffel said there were no clouds here and the sky was full of stars. "The atmosphere was
so clear you could see for miles."
The light was much bigger than a full moon and didn't seem
to be far away, he said. It did not move although the last visible
portion, after it changed shape, was lower in the sky.
The County Jail radio man heard no other reports of the light
from this area, but did overhear a conversation near Columbus in
which two hunters were so alarmed at a light that they had seen
"they were never going back in the woods after dark."
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