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Charlotte, NC (AP)- Some people in the Charlotte area called 911 dispatchers and reported seeing a weird hovering light in the sky.
Emergency dispatchers answered the calls in Iredell, Lincoln, Mooresville and Huntersville Wednesday night. One Lincoln County officer reportedly saw it, and the National Weather Service in Greer, South Carolina got similar calls.
Even stranger - people in between the two areas in York, Gaston and Cleveland counties had no such 911 reports.
The Federal Aviation Administration had no reports of plane crashes, and law enforcement officers said they didn't see any extra-errestrials.
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This is the kind of story that really polarizes people: either you believe in UFO's, or you don't.
Whatever you choose to believe, some in North Carolina say the possibility of alien life is perfectly reasonable, and they saw it this week with their very own eyes.
911: "What is your emergency?"
Caller: "I just saw something explode in the sky and it was traveling eastbound, I'm on 77, it exploded in the sky, a ball of flame that was going east."
The first call came into the Iredell County 911 center in Statesville. The caller said he saw something that looked like an aircraft or a satellite that just exploded in mid-air.
Exactly five minutes later, at 7:58 p.m., the second call came in.
Caller: "I just, looked like I saw an airplane was in trouble just north of Mooresville, looked like was taking a nose dive, looked like something was on fire."
"Sometimes when these crafts come through the atmosphere they would produce something that would look like fire," said State Director for the Mutual UFO Director George Lund.
Lund said the area around Lake Norman and McGuire Nuclear Plant is a hot spot for UFO sightings.
"They think that they're coming in that area maybe to feed off some of energy that that plant is producing," Lund said.
911 operators didn't send anyone out to investigate because the witnesses, who called from locations about 7 miles apart, couldn't give an exact location of the sightings.
"With an area that wide, it's sort of hard to investigate if we don't have an exact address or location," said Bradley Brawley, Iredell Co. 911 Center.
The Federal Aviation Administration said they have no record of any plane crashes in Iredell County Wednesday.
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