Seeker - issue 2
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Wertman said a rash of UFO sightings occurred in 2009 and 2010 , when Lake Erie remained frozen . A young man called local news stations after seeing strange lights eight or nine nights in a row . Wertman , who never watches the news , got involved after MUFON ’ s Louisiana state director notified him and put him in touch with the young man reporting the lights .
“ He said he had been seeing things multiple nights in a row . They always appeared in the same direction and disappeared the same way . To me , it sounded like aircraft ,” Wertman said .
It took four nights , but Wertman finally got to view the objects for himself . He used a phone app to look at aircraft flight patterns and determined it was planes coming from the Minneapolis area and headed for a landing at the airport .
Even so , he went out another night with movie cameras , high powered binoculars and two teams , one in Euclid and one in Lakewood . Wertman talked to a Delta pilot about flight paths , air speeds and altitude . Mathematical formulas proved the objects were on the typical flight path to the airport .
“ When they come in from that direction , they come in and make this big turn and head southwest . That ’ s when they begin their flight path for landing ,” Wertman said .
He said planes produce a type of optical illusion when they make the 90 degree turn . Although planes are at least two miles apart , they look like they are close and appear to move faster while the lights dim heading southwest , he said . “ It gave the appearance of two balls moving around each other ,” he said . How could people mistake planes for UFOs ?
“ Sometimes , when it happens , is when aircraft is heading directly at them , the landing lights are there . They see those , but not the lights on the wings ,” Wertman said .
Other reports of balls of light over the lake are probably Chinese lanterns , Wertman said . He said he gets a lot of reports around July 4 and holidays when people tend to light the lanterns . The Coast Guard said the strange orbs of light over Lake Erie are attributed to television and radio towers on the Canadian shore across the lake . Wertman said that a far fetched theory because of the distance from Cleveland to Canada , but is possible .
Whatever the reason , Ohio will likely continue to remain a hotspot for sightings as long as people remained interested in seeing something unusual .
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