Mysterious light show over Martin City remains unexplained

When O’Brien Byrd woke up to a strange light coming through his bedroom window in Martin City early Wednesday morning, he knew something odd was going on.

It was about 4:30 a.m. when the large stationary light caught Byrd’s attention, prompting him to get out of bed and venture onto his deck for a better look.

“When I got outside and had an unobstructed view, I saw that it was exactly what I thought it was. It was four points of light — a top, bottom, left and right — that were grouped tightly together and hovering in the sky surrounded by a bright pulsing light. The points were about the size of the stars or a bit larger. Altogether, with the pulsing light, it was about 10 times the size of the largest star in the sky,” Byrd said. “This was definitely not a star and it was not the moon. You could tell it was inside our atmosphere. There was no sound and it did not move, while the stars around it did. I just kept thinking ‘What could this possibly be?’”