PHOTO BY CHARLES MILLER;
cropped and lightened by Charlotte.com for clarity
According to Charles Miller: "Last night just after 8:30, I was in the backyard smoking a cig and saw a light coming in toward Kings Mountain from the south-southeast. ... I went in the house and got my camera and came back out in the front yard to shoot it. "
"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. "There were, however, "No immediate reports of little green men with ray guns." read the entire story in The Charlotte Observer.
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I'd just like to point out that the above photo was light-blasted and otherwise photographically edited before it appeared on the website of the Charlotte Observer (newspaper) that same night, and then on the front page of the Charlotte Observer the next day. They really enhanced it WAY beyond the original photo.
ReplyDeleteOn top of that, the Charlotte Observer immediately released all my personal information to the national news media, after PROMISING they'd respect my privacy. This turned into a couple of weeks of hell as news outlets across the country hammered me with phone calls and emails 24 hours a day. I'll never report another sighting. I understand now why people are reluctant to openly report such sightings.