We're gonna have that little Colorado town. That is on the map now for being a UFO magnet. Last week, the people of Lafayette, population of 26,000, looked up the night's sky and saw a strange triangular formation of lights. The video has gone viral, so Clayton Sandell went there to see what's up.
One thing is for sure.
What the hell is that?
People in Lafayette, Colorado, don't know what they saw last week hovering above their homes.
--I don't think it was an airplane, definitely not.
--When it flew over there, this is just really weird energy.
Lester Valdez saw the lights, along with all of his neighbors.
--I have never witnessed anything like that though.
He says there were kind of like those tiny bright alien ships from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
--It was exactly something like that where you see an object and they all just kind of got into a pattern.
--They are just like ...
Leroy Vandervet and his son Nick managed to capture them on camera.
--It was completely quiet. No noise at all.
Leroy doesn't know what it was either, but he is sure that it wasn't a satellite, wasn't a helicopter and he says it wasn't an airplane.
Skeptics say there must be a perfectly good explanation. One that doesn't involve little green men.
--The idea of it actually being an alien spacecraft is pretty wacky
Beyond that, it's still a mystery, we tried calling the FAA for help. They refused to speak with us.
It is possible this is all a hoax, after all, Lafayette isn't too far from where balloon boy's UFO took flight.
--If I'm lived to tell this, Oh, my ,god!
For now, it's clear this is an unidentified flying object. but is it really extra-terrestrial or just a plain old terrestrial?
Clayton Sandell, ABC News Lafayette,Colorado.
