Bright
lights, big city: UFO reported over Baytown skies
07:03
AM CDT on Monday, April 28, 2008
By
Kevin Reece / 11 News
BAYTOWN,
Texas — Lisa Fojt and her aunt, Kathy Boyd, say they saw more than the bright
refinery lights of Baytown when they crossed the Fred Hartman Bridge Saturday
night.
“There’s
no explanation. But we know what we saw,” Boyd said.
They
saw a UFO. Really.
“It
was an extremely bright light, it was a blue-green light,” Boyd said.
The
object was seen at about the same level as the top of the bridge, hovering somewhere
over Goose Creek.
It’s
a story the pair admitted they were reluctant to tell. But they saw it, and they
told.
“And
I was looking, and I’m like ‘are you watching this?’ And she’s
like ‘yes, I’ve been watching it.’ And it kind of verified to both
of us that we both saw something,” Fojt said.
Fojt
and Boyd took their search for that something online, asking a blog message board
if anyone else saw it too.
Several
others did, but several more questioned their sanity.
Still
others suggested it was a meteor that lit up the Baytown sky that night.
But
Fogt and Boyd said, as far as they’ve heard, meteors don’t make hard-banking
right turns.
“And
then it just kicked in – like, warp speed – and it was gone!” Boyd
said. “An extremely sharp turn.”
“It
just – poof! – disappeared. It was like a little triangle zap, like
you see in the movies. I mean, it just disappeared,” Fojt added.
A
recent UFO sighting in Arizona turned out to be a hoax. A man had tied road flares
to a series of helium balloons.
But
Fojt and Boyd don’t see a hoax at play here, though even that would be a
better explanation than the inevitable query:
11
News: “Had you ladies been drinking?”
(laughter)
Fojt:
“No, no, no. I kind of wish we had, you know? Maybe it would seem less real.”
The
pair swears they saw the real deal – they’d just like help finding out
what kind of deal it really was.
