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 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… UFO? web posted January 29, 2008 MERRIWETHER – A strange light was reported in the skies around Merriwether this weekend. Several people saw a suspicious light in the eastern sky at about 30° above the horizon around 7 pm Sunday. Though that sighting was just a single bright white light that zigzagged around as it intensified and diminished in brightness, it was nothing compared to what one Merriwether woman reported to the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office on Monday morning. Though no police reports were available Monday of the sighting, the woman reported seeing bright lights in the area near Murrah Road around 2 am. According to the information obtained, the woman spotted the object hovering in the sky about 75 feet in the air. At first the lights were blue but then began changing to many differed colors. There were no indications as to how large the object in the sky was. This was the second sighting of the same object the woman told the Sheriff’s Deputy, she saw the object the night before as well. The sightings took place near the Murrah Forrest Road area. Deputies will be patrolling the area in an effort to locate or identify the object if it returns. The only other report involving a lighted object hovering overhead was in late January of 2006 when a man called the Sheriff’s Office to report a strange light in the sky just above the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on Highway 25 just north of Edgefield around 11:45 pm. Deputies arrived on the scene a short time later but were unable to locate anything out of the ordinary. In that case the man told dispatchers that he thought the light was the moon until he got closer to it. Other residents told EdgefieldDaily.com they have seen strange lights across the county for years. One Trenton woman said she remembers seeing a strange light hovering over a barn on the family property many years ago. It appeared to be a white in color light that just hovered near the barn and did not make any sound. She said she alerted her mother, who was asleep at the time, and they both witnessed the light continue to hover before finally rising up and quickly flying away. Have you seen strange lights or objects in the skies around Edgefield? If so send us an account of your sighting. Have a comment? Send it to the Wandering Minds by emailing editor@edgefielddaily.com ©
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