Mysterious Red light over Brook Park, Ohio
July 10th, 2005
July 10th, 2005
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Mysterious Red light over Brook Park, Ohio
July 10th, 2005 |
  
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Incident Date: 7/10/05 Time: 11pm Location: Brook Park, OH A mysterious red light was seen by numerous people in the Cleveland Area on Sunday July 10th, 2005 between 11:30pm and 12am. The news media reported on it. Someone at NASA said it was the Space Station. Cleveland Hopkins officials will not comment. Now some say it was balloons. IF YOU HAVE PICTURES OR VIDEO OF THIS OBJECT PLEASE CONTACT US News Channel 5 reported this story on Monday July 11th. (with pictures) Was it ballons? Somebody was aparently setting off balloons with lights attached. Why would somebody do this? It's not clear. Being so close to the airport it could be dangerous. The following witness report doesn't seem to match the time and description of the others below. This doesn't nesesarily rule it out as an explaination. Witness Report: "I work for Zambelli fireworks and we were doing the fireworks show for the Brookpark Homedays on July 10. While we were waiting to fire the show, around 9:15, we saw three large balloons tied together with what appeared to be a glow stick attached on the bottom, launched from the neighborhood next to the school where we were shooting the display. At least eight of us, including my eleven year old son, watched as it climbed fairly high in the sky. After about fifteen minutes, the light on the bottom flickered out and all you could see was Was it the International Space Station? An explaination was given that it was the International Space Station (ISS). The space station became visible at 11:23pm in the northwest sky at about 10 degrees altitude. It reached a maximum altitude of 27 degrees at 11:25pm in the north-northeast sky. It disappeared from view at 11:26pm at about 25 degrees in the northeast. So the ISS was visible for about 3 minutes low in the northern sky moving west to east. View the specific ISS pass details here at the Heavens Above website. Why it's NOT the International Space Station: Witness reports indicate it is highly unlikly that it is the ISS. The object was witnessed after 11:30pm and was seen moving from east to west, hovering, changing direction as well as dropping lights out of the main light. Witnesses report watching the object for up to 45 minutes! The observed motion, color, altitude as well as time and duration of this sighting are all contrary to the ISS tracking data. There is at least one video of this object. If you have any video or pictures of this object please contact us at info@clevelandufo.com Witness reports: Report #1 "This evening I was coming home
after dropping off my daughter's friend, it was between 11:30 and 12 Am.
I live on Big Creek Parkway in
Middleburg Hts. between Smith and Bagley Roads. I had my 2
teenage daughters and my niece in the car with me.
I noticed a bright red light in
the sky above my house. It actually looked like a TV tower light
except it was not blinking. I mentioned this to the
girls. They were all fascinated. We stood in the driveway
for approx. 20 minutes viewing this light. We got my husband's
binoculars but it just looked like a bigger red light in the
binoculars. Watching this light, it looked like a star, except it
would get brighter and dimmer and it appeared to be moving very slowly
in the sky. My daughters kept saying it's a meteor but I kept
telling them that meteors move very quickly across the sky. I
started wondering if it was a red star. Suddenly, it looked as
though it were falling. It zipped through the sky with such
speed. It appeared to be going north. Then it simply
disappeared.
My husband says it could be a
satellite. I personally have never seen anything like it
before. The girls are convinced we saw a UFO. Did we?
Was there anything in the
Cleveland skies that it could've been? We are all very curious
now as to what we did see."
Report #2 "Hi, I'm [sic] not sure what we saw but last night 7/10/2005 while working at Cleveland Hopkins Airport we saw a red light in the sky, just above the Ford plant in Brookpark. The light hovered for about 45 min or so..It was probably 2 to 3 thousand feet in the sky..It was not a Helicopter, Blimp or an airplane, it made no noise... The ATC tower was called and they didn't know what it was either, eventually it turned and starting moving to the East and eventually vanished in the sky, and it was a clear night..." Report #3 "I have lived in Brook Park my
whole life and this past Sunday they had the fireworks display, which
they always shoot off the weekend after the 4th. The fireworks are real
good and the Brook Park carnival is going on at the same time. As a
result the entire city is pretty much packed with people and
no place to park.
The point being that I know
there had to be MANY witnesses to this event as it only happened
roughly a half hour to an hour or so after the fireworks ended. It was
a pleasant night with clear skies and, even though the main fireworks
had ended, several local residents were still firing them off.
In other words, we were still
looking up here and there to catch the occasional display, as I'm sure
many others were as well. I also am willing to bet that there was more
than one person who filmed it as people would have had camcorders out
for the display or their backyard picnic.
Anyway, as we sat and talked in
my neighbors back yard their son suddenly said "What the heck is
that!". We directed our attention to the East and could see a rather
large and intense red light moving west towards us. It was moving at a
pretty good pace. Perhaps perception wise the speed of a really high
jetliner, but not real fast like a shooting star.
The object was really high. It
looked to still be in the atmosphere but in the higher reaches of it.
It's size and color was roughly what it looks like to see one of those
red lights on top of a tower...but it was MUCH higher in the sky as I
said. Based on this, I'm guessing it had to be a pretty big object
because you could just tell it was way up there.
As it moved from the East to the
West it was pretty much coming right over us or maybe slightly just
north. As it got over our heads we began to look for flashing lights or
even a pulse to indicate it had running lights on it. My neighbor went
into the house and got out his binoculars and we all looked through
them at it. Nothing in the way of flashing lights or a pulse indicating
running lights could be seen.
This was getting a little wierd
at this point but nothing that couldn't be explained as a satelite. By
this time, which probably was five to ten minutes from when we first
saw it approach from the east and got overhead of us, the object
stopped moving west and simply sat there. Now my interest was really
getting peaked. No running lights, a wierd redish glow, and the
object has now stopped.
In my mind I was ruling out
various things to try to explain it. It obviously wasn't a plane or sun
reflection off a satelite since it had now stopped. I have seen
satelites at night and they tend to be silver or blue and travel at a
constant speed in a straight line.
It didn't have any running
lights so it wasn't a legal aircraft. Still, the only three
possibilities I could now think of were helicopter, blimp, or balloon.
It was very high and I honestly would never think a blimp, balloon or
helicopter could get that high. There was no sound from the object
that we could hear either. My options had now narrowed it down to some
kind of high altitude balloon with a flame under it that had made it
appear to glow red.
The object sat motionless for
I'd say roughly another 5 to 10 minutes. In this span of time it
changed it's level of brightness a few times, getting a bit dimmer then
a bit brighter. It was a drastic change but enough to notice. Then a
few minutes later it began moving slightly north, then slightly
west, and then appeared to move back to the east a bit. I can't
honestly remember what sequence of order it
switched directions, but it wasn't far, just a slight
and very slow movement. Much slower than when it first approached us
from the East.
Several more minutes went by and
then the object moved a bit further west and then south. It was still
almost directly overhead but a bit off to the west of us. As it made
it's slight southward move it suddenly dropped a red light of equal or
maybe slightly smaller size out of the bottom of it. As it did this the
original light became a bit dimmer, though still visible as it move
south for a small distance and then just vanished.
All this went on while
the light that dropped out of it fell from the sky. It appeared to
be free falling as it made a slight back and fourth movement while it
fell. Sort'a like the motion of a feather falling but much less
pronounced. It also appeared to have a short red trail
of light behind it as it fell but this could have been just a
visual trick as it fell at a pretty decent pace.
It's hard to estimate time as
this all happened but I want to say the object took close to a minute
or longer to fall out of sight to the west. It probably was only twenty
to thirty seconds but it seemed longer as this object was very high and
thus took a long time to fall.
The sky over us was clear
but way to the west towards Berea and Olmsted falls there was some low
cloud cover on the horizon. We lost sight of the object as it fell
behind this cloud cover but by then it was almost to the ground. It was
then that I realized just how high and large it was because this thing
took forever to fall and looked to go down in the area of Olmsted
Falls. If I had to guess it would have been roughly in the direction of
Columbia and Bagley. Perhaps in the metroparks slightly north of there.
However, at that distance the object could have been much further away
than that when it landed.
I have never seen anything like
this in my life. Last night on the news somebody had it on film.
However, they lost the object behind trees before it dropped the other
object out of it. I'm hoping that others filmed this part of the event.
NASA or some professor they had
on the news channel said it was the space station reflecting sun light.
While this may have been a possible explaination if the object had kept
moving in a straight line, the fact that it stopped for several
minutes, changed directions, and dropped something out of it destroys
that theory for me.
My only possible explaination
would be a balloon with a flame in it. However, this doesn't explain
the height it had, the fact that it didn't seem to glow like a
fire or constantly change, or how it managed to do such diverse changes
in direction and become two objects."
Report #4 "I saw the light as it was descending for about 30 seconds. It defintiely wasn't the Space Station as was reported on Fox last night. It was not a satellite or meteor either. From my vantage point which was obscured by trees it looked like itwas to the east of Brookpark, but not by too much. My line of sight was looking north from North Royalton and is following the State rd. hill which is where most of the TV towers are situated. The light was at least as bright as the similar colored tower lights. My friend and myself both thought it looked a lot like a military flare." If you have any more information about this sighting please contact C.U.P. at info@clevelandufo.com |
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