“What was that floating bright, glowing object hovering over the Valley Monday evening ? Did you see it? Some thought it was a UFO, a weather balloon or even an alien spaceship.”
Actually It’s a project of the
Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, which according to its web site, launches large, unmanned, high-altitude research balloons — and recovers the experiments they carry — for NASA and universities around the world.
Though the Columbia balloon facility is located in Palestine, Texas, the former-UFO HASP balloon was launched from Fort Sumner, N.M. — not far from Roswell, site of a famous 1947 crash of either a Cold War spy balloon project or an alien spacecraft — depending on whom you believe.
The mystery was soon solved when a local reporter identified the mysterious lights as four members of a skydiving team, the Arizona Sky hawks, who jumped with bright magnesium flares for a Halloween show.
It’s a good reminder that just because one or more people can’t identify something in the
sky doesn't mean that it’s unknown or unexplained.
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