Nobody else seems to have noticed the strange lights that Nicole Keller’s husband saw over Battle Ground late Monday night — but he does have his cellphone as a witness.
Keller’s husband, who didn’t want his name used in the paper, gave his wife a picture from his cellphone that shows two clusters of three red lights moving slowly over their home near the Best Western at 1419 W. Main St.
He told her the lights were traveling southward in the sky for about five minutes, close to midnight.
“He was standing outside and saw those strange lights,” Keller said. “He said they were going really slow.”
Curious about what the lights might be, she sent his image to The Columbian. He doesn’t want to have anything to do with any UFO talk, she added.
A Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency dispatch operator said his agency had no reports of any strange activity throughout Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, also said he didn’t get any calls about them.
“I heard no reports proactively last night,” Kenitzer said on Tuesday afternoon.
And neither did Peter Davenport, director of the UFO Reporting Center in Eastern Washington.
“I haven’t heard anything from that area,” Davenport said. “But we have received reports the likes of which you described continuously since last June.”
Davenport’s group keeps a record of UFO sightings from around the country and said reports of “clusters of red, orange and gold fireballs” around the country are not uncommon.
Even folks at the Battle Ground Best Western, who are awake at that time of night, didn’t hear or see anything unusual, said manager Kenda Pollard.
“No one mentioned it, and I talked to all my staff that worked last night,” Pollard said Tuesday. “Nothing has been written about it in the books.”
Jim Todd, planetarium manager at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, said he isn’t sure what the lights might be.
