By Tim Binnall
After noticing some peculiar lights in the sky on two consecutive evenings, a woman in Oregon was left wondering what exactly she had just witnessed. Michelle Gabrielli's perplexing experience caught the attention of a local newscast after she'd sent them photos and videos of what appear to be odd orbs hovering in the night sky. According to her, there were a whopping 15 such lights that appeared to be performing maneuvers before her eyes.
"I don't know what I saw that night," Gabrielli conceded to a reporter from TV station KOIN, "I can only speculate." To that end and to her credit, she offered a measured assessment that other UFO witnesses would be wise to adopt. "For me, it's an unidentified flying object," she marveled, "that doesn't mean it's an alien." That said, Gabrielli also seemed to assign some kind of otherworldly origin for the orbs, musing that "there was something in the sky that we didn't do."
Theories offered by the reporter covering Gabrielli's story included prosaic possibilities such as an airliner coming in for a landing or a drone. However, an impromptu straw poll at the anchor desk produced a somewhat amusing result as three of the four members of the news team, likely with their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks, agreed that the lights probably came from aliens.
Ironically, this was not the TV station's first encounter with the UFO phenomenon as, back in January, viewers noticed a strange anomaly zip across the screen on a shot of the Portland skyline situated behind the anchor desk.