SOMERVILLE — Somerville police were flooded with phone calls this morning after residents reported seeing a large tube-like object fluttering through the sky.
Police said they were swamped with phone calls after a flurry of callers reported to radio station NJ 101.5 that a UFO was flying above the area. Residents then began calling the Somerville Police Department to report the object.
“I first noticed when all our mechanics started looking up at the sky,” said Terry Weil, a sales associate at Honda Autosport in Bridgewater. “It looked like a big black strip fluttering in the air. Maybe a cylinder.”
Somerville Police Lt. Donna Young said authorities were not sure what the object was, but said it caused no problems other than tying up police phone lines shortly before noon.
“We have no idea what it was but it did not cause any problems here in Somerville,” she said. “We are under the impression that it might be a weather balloon or something like that, but regardless, it did not cause any problems whatsoever.”
The Air Traffic Control Tower in Morristown did not have any pilot reports of the object, nor did officials at Solberg Airport in Hunterdon, Somerset Airport in Bedminster and Blairstown Airport in Warren County.
UFO in Central Jersey skies startles residents
BRIDGEWATER — Just a few days after residents were startled by the sight of a low-flying plane in the skies over Central Jersey, residents reported another out-of-the-ordinary sight in the sky late this morning.
Residents of Somerville and Bridgewater called police departments to report what they said was an unidentified flying object in the sky.
Terry Weil, a sales associate at Autosport on Route 22, said his attention was drawn to the clear, blue sky at about 11 a.m. when he noticed mechanics at the dealership looking into the heavens.
Weill said he saw “something” in the in sky over the highway. He described it as a cylindrical long silver object.
“It was hard to tell what it was,” he said, speculating it might have been a rogue weather balloon.
Weil, laughing, said it was the first time he had ever seen a UFO.
On Sunday a hydraulic problem has forced a Tokyo-bound Continental Airlines plane to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says Flight 9 landed safely Sunday afternoon about an hour after it left Newark.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the pilots burned off and dumped fuel over Central Jersey to make the airplane lighter before returning to the airport because of “a hydraulic problem.”
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