

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Monday, March 7, 1988
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COZYING OF JUPITER, VENUS LIGHT UP SKY

      Reports of unidentified flyin
g objects are being made, and the most 
likely explanation is the rare alignm
ent of Jupiter and Venus.
      Some Fairport Harbor residents reported seein
g UFOs and large bright 
objects hovering over Lake Erie over the weekend.
      
The Fairport Harbor Coast Guard went to the area and saw a large 
bright obje
ct that seemed to disperse smaller, brightly colored objects. 
But when they called the Gre
ater Cleveland air traffic controllers, they 
learned that Jupiter and Venus 
were in alignment and that the colors were 
the result of spontaneous gas emi
ssions from the two planets.
      Its the celestial equivalent of a colorful 
floor show, says Charles 
B. Stephenson, a professor of astronomy at Case Wes
tern Reserve 
University.
      The Earth's atmosphere helps create the color 
sensation, in the same 
way that distant stars appear to twinkle.


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