Three Report Seeing Weird Lights In Sky

Several Chewelah-area residents reported seeing mysterious lights traveling across the sky late Tuesday and early Wednesday morning.

The sightings occurred during and after a lightning storm, but witnesses said they are confident the lights they saw were not part of the storm.

Bruce Cockrell, 51, said the lights appeared to be almost directly over his home about 13 miles southeast of town when neighbor Ron Evenson called to get him out of bed for a look. Their descriptions differed, but both said they saw concentric circles that seemed to be spinning while moving across the sky.

At a downtown convenience store, clerk Brenda Marshall reported seeing only a single patch of light. She said she couldn’t be sure, but the spot actually might have been composed of many small lights as Cockrell described.

A helicopter might explain the phenomenon, she said. “Anything but UFOs. I don’t believe in UFOs.”

Chewelah Police Chief Mike Clements said he was outside at the time and saw nothing unusual.

Spokesmen for the Federal Aviation Administration and several military units said they were unaware of any aircraft in the area that might account for the lights.

, DataTimes