- DURHAM -- It flashed across
the sky like a shooting star, trailing a tail of green streaks.
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- But what Durham police Lt. Morris Taylor saw Monday night
on Erwin Road was different from any shooting star he had ever seen before.
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- "It was pretty wild looking," Taylor said of
the unidentified flying object. "It looked comparable to the size
of the moon in the sky."
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- Durham police dispatchers began receiving calls about
an unidentified flying object at around 8:45 p.m. Monday, and one resident
even flagged down a passing police cruiser to report the object. According
to a dispatcher, about six reports were received in all.
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- Durham County Sheriff's Deputy Brad O'Briant said he
was checking property on U.S. 70 when he saw the flying object over in
the direction of Interstate 40.
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- O'Briant said the object was moving too fast to discern
its color, but its tail had a distinctive greenish-white hue to it, he
said.
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- "It just went across the sky and disappeared as
it got toward the horizon area," he said. "It was a lot larger
than a shooting star would be. It was almost like a firework going to the
ground or something."
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- Air traffic controllers at Raleigh-Durham International
Airport said they hadn't seen the object, but several pilots reported catching
glimpses of it Monday night.
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- Durham dispatchers said they received reports of sightings
around South Miami Boulevard and Page Road, Duke Forest, and as far north
as the Little River area.
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- "I thought it looked pretty neat," Taylor said.
"I had never seen a shooting star like that before."
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- Taylor said the object was "humongous" compared
to a shooting star.
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- "It was a shooting star-type of thing," he
said. "I can't imagine anything else that it could be. We haven't
had any calls about anything crashing or anything."
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- Taylor and O'Briant both said the object was heading
toward the ground when they saw it.
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- "When I saw it, I was assuming that if it did make
it to the ground, it wouldn't be around anywhere near here," Taylor
said.
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