Unidentified orange lights sighted last month in the evening sky over Southeast Missouri gave a Poplar Bluff man an opportunity to put his self-taught astronomy expertise to use. Ed Matott made contact with the Southeast Missourian after reading about the event and offered his theory about what was reported that night.
'UFO' might be space station The orange lights seen in the Southeast Missouri sky last week might not have been so strange after all. Several people in the region reported seeing unusual, bright orange lights in the sky last Wednesday night. But amateur astronomer Edward Matott of Poplar Bluff, Mo., said he thinks the light people saw was the international space station, which orbits the Earth about 220 miles above its surface.
Orange lights in the night sky have been reported in Southeast Missouri once again. H.B. Rice said he was with four people sitting around a friend's pool in Chaffee, Mo., Wednesday night when they saw a bright orange light in the eastern sky moving from the south to the northeast.