Residents Report Lights In Sky Over At Least Five States

July 8, 2004

FORT WORTH, Texas -- First the sky lit up and then callers did the same to police phone lines across five states.

A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said it's likely that what people saw Wednesday night from Texas to western Tennessee was a meteorite -- probably several.

The lights flashed across the sky shortly after 9 p.m. in portions of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee.

A spokesman for the National Weather Service in Fort Worth said it wasn't a weather event.

A forecaster in Louisiana said that whatever the object was, it had to be very high up in the sky and quite large for such a large area of people to have seen it.

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.

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