Was it a UFO or is there an explanation for it?
Strange, red, blinking lights could be seen across Morris County on Monday night, and officials thought they had figured out what caused them.
Now, they're not so sure.
Between 8:30 and 9 p.m., the Hurley family in Whippany captured images of a bizarre object in the sky and contacted WCBSTV.com.
"It was unsettling for sure," said Cindy Hurley. "It was something you've never seen before, and a very strange pattern."
Eleven-year-old Kristin was the first to spot them, a group of three lights together, and two lights together, seen in the horizon through the trees. "I looked up outside. I was really scared and saw five red lights," she said.
The family all went out onto their deck to look at the strange sight. Paul Hurley, a pilot who works at Morristown Airport, said they weren't planes.
"I've been in aviation for 20 years and never seen anything like it," he told CBS 2.
Paul was one of several people who e-mailed WCBSTV.com after witnessing the lights.
"Red lights in the sky over the Morristown-Morris Township area, 5 red lights in a weird pattern over the area," one viewer wrote.
"The formation of 5 lights were first noticed over Cedar Knolls and then as they approached the Madison/Morris Township border the rear half of the formation slowly faded and appeared to drop from the sky and then the front part of the formation went out one by one," wrote another.
At 8:28, the Hanover Township police received the first of seven 911 calls.
"It looks like flares attached to balloons," said a caller.
Paul Hurley, who called the Morristown Airport control tower, says the lights had also been spotted from there, and they caused no interference with flight operations. Between those officials and the Morristown Police, the best guess as to what the lights were: nothing more than a prank, roadside flares attached to helium balloons. Yet, they left rather quickly.
"It like, it took off, very strange," said Paul.
There's been no report of any recovered, and police don't know who released them.
The Federal Aviation Administration tells CBS 2 news, with the exception of laser lights and weather balloons, there is no regulation on releasing balloons or lights into the sky.
My own experience viewing a UFO in late 2006 still sits with me. When it happened, I was so scared that I called my ex-girlfriend pleading with her to just believe me, which she did but in that "i'll tell you I believe you because you're crazy and you scare me" way. I wasn't quite ready for it. Here's what went down: I was in my room in my old apartment in Atlanta, getting ready to go to sleep. It was about 2 in the morning when I looked out my 4th story window which overlooked the rest of the complex. An unearthly light was shining in the sky, pretty far up there. I thought it was a satellite, but its lights were morphing between red and white. About 4 seconds of realizing that what I was seeing I had seen before in Youtube videos of UFOs, it took off at a speed which was extremely unusual, which shocked me and I called my ex. Now, this doesn't quite stand up to Ben Fairhall's experience (which brought back creepy memories) but I know enough now that it was real. I was deep into conspiracies and higher dimensions at the time, which may have manifested it.
I've been through periods of dreadful paranoia recently concerning evil entities, well not recently (there are more concerning world events that need attention paid to them) but for the past 2 years. I've "gotten over" it, it seems to be a phase everyone who mistakenly lusts for awareness passes through.
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