This week, the South Wales Police in the UK received an emergency call on their 999 line (the same as 911 in the US). A man reported a mysterious object in the sky. This is the actual transcript of the call:Control Room: "South Wales Police, what's your emergency?"
Caller: "It's not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there's a bright stationary object."
Control room: "Right."
Caller: "If you've got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It's been there at least half an hour and it's still there."
Control: "It's been there for half an hour. Right. Is it actually on the mountain or in the sky?"
Caller: "It's in the air."
Control: "I will send someone up there now to check it out."
Caller: "OK."
Within minutes, police responded to the scene and observed the same mysterious object in the air. The transcript continues:
Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?"
Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over."
The call, according to a South Wales Police spokesperson, was not a hoax. She said, "It was 100% legitimate. There was no hoax. It was a serious call from a member of the public."
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=204958&in_page_id=2
I saw a very bright one the other morning. It was golden and shiny and slowly moved in the eastern sky. By nighttime, it was gone.
2 comments:
I've experienced times where a combination of clouds and haze makes a low moon look really strange and unrecognizable, so I don't blame the caller too much. At least he didn't call up screaming "UFO! UFO! UFO!"
Michael,
Have you ever seen the moon for a half hour and still wonder what it is? :)
I think you are very generous in giving him the "haze and clouds" excuse. But that's just me.
Thanks for the comment.
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