Crime & Safety

Lakewood Brothers Report 'Fireball-Looking Object' Over Lake Erie

Residents claim they saw a UFO, but police received no reports.

Two brothers claim they saw what appeared to be an unidentified flying object over Lake Erie in Lakewood on Tuesday. 

The unnamed Lakewood residents told Examiner.com that they were working on a car in the driveway when they saw “fireball-looking object” coming from the south at around 7:30 p.m.

According to the Examiner, the brothers logged their testimony into the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

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No photos or videos of incident were taken, according to the report.

“I definitely know the difference between airplanes (commercial, small craft, and military) and helicopters,” one of them reported. “This was 110 percent not any of these. It was not a meteor as it moved too slowly. It was definitely under intelligent control."

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However, the didn’t receive any calls about the sighting.

Capt. Ed Hassing said there were no reports made during the time in question. 

“People call for a lot of things,” he said. “We’ve had helicopters flying low, but they usually turn out to be something that can be explained.”


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