Greifswald and the Lights over the Bay
On the evening of 24 August 1990 a group of bright lights arranged in an arc hung over the Bay of Greifswald on the Baltic coast for several hours. Hundreds of people saw them from both sides of the water, and at least five filmed them — remarkable for the time and the place: East Germany had weeks left to exist. The recordings were examined by investigators and by the military. The likeliest explanation is a Soviet army exercise with parachute flares over the Peenemünde range; some of the footage fits it, and some — by timing and altitude — does not. The footage remains one of the longest amateur video records of the phenomenon in Europe.
Fargo and the Gorman Dogfight
On the evening of 1 October 1948 Lieutenant George Gorman of the National Guard was on approach to Fargo when he saw a fast point of light beside him — no body, no navigation lights. For the next twenty-seven minutes he tried to catch it: it turned away, came head-on, and climbed more steeply than his fighter could. The chase was watched from the ground by a controller and by two men in a light aircraft. The Air Force explanation is a lit weather balloon, and it is plausible: the balloon is stationary and all the manoeuvring is produced by the pilot circling it. Gorman disagreed for the rest of his life; the transcript of his debriefing that same evening is still read as a model of a detailed report.
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