STRANGE lights recently appeared over the sky in a small town near where a UFO supposedly landed back in 1964.
Numerous residents saw the lights that appeared on Friday night over Harrisonburg, Virginia, about 125 miles southwest of Washington DC.
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They likely spotted a Starlink satellite, which was supposed to be visible in the area at around 9pm that night, local ABC, Fox, and CBS affiliate WHSV reported.
A similar situation unfolded in May when lights were spotted over Keezletown, just five miles away from Harrisonburg.
WHSV’s Stephanie Penn provided a similar explanation for these lights in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
«Turns out it’s the Starlink satellite constellation, which uses a low orbit to deliver broadband,» she said.
These incidents were far from the first time strange lights appeared over this part of the country.
Starting in December 1964, about 50 unexplainable airborne objects were spotted in the sky over the Shenandoah Valley during a six month period, according to WHSV.
The sighting spree began when Horace Burns claimed that he saw a 125ft wide flying saucer near Fisherville, about 30 miles south of Harrisonburg.
Members of Project Blue Book, a top-secret government research group, were brought to investigate in January 1965.
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«This is an unusual sighting,» David Moody, one of the investigators, said at the time.
«If it was routine, we wouldn’t be here.»
In the few weeks before investigators arrived, there were several other sightings, including when a 10-year-old spotted a reported metallic ship over a nearby town.
«This thing has gotten completely out of hand,» Augusta County Sheriff John Kent said in February 1965.
UFO sightings continued in the area for a time, but eventually fizzled out.
Blue Book investigators remained until the spring of 1965 and released a report saying no evidence of a UFO landing was ever found.
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