What exactly is over the skies of Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio?

Many in the Bigfoot field are probably wondering why in the world is the Squatchdetective covering a UFO story?

Well to me it has much significance, first and foremost, many in the Crypto fields do not know I started off as a UFO investigator for the now defunct Ariel Phenomena Research Organization, which was based out of Tucson, Az.

Rarely is there an event which is significant in the fact, that there is no explanation for this phenomena at this time. It has been seen by many, over a course of consecutive evenings, which these events have been videoed continuously and photographed. The media, actually doing a bit of due diligence, has confirmed from airports that there was no air traffic responsible for this phenomena.

Ufologists would call this a major event, and the fact that the mainstream media is covering this, both on the local and national levels, makes it all the more for the case of UFO's. However what the exact cause of these "mystery lights" are, is bound to be debated for some time.

It is also my belief that this is one particular phenomena that is prone to government cover up, unlike the Sasquatch mystery, due to its significance to National Security.

Out of my personal experiences in my six years as a UFO investigator, I found that it was quite difficult to prove or disprove visual sightings, much like the Sasquatch sightings today. You do your best to interview a witness and attempt to seek out deception while intently trying to retain the details of the event.

What makes this of particular interest to me is that in the late nineties I was a friend of a MUFON investigator here in New York that showed me a three hour video, patched together of consecutive nights, over Saratoga Lake, exhibiting the same behavior we are seeing today over Lake Erie.

Wertman Video grab/ MUFON Database

The Week - March 10th, 2010

The Cleveland UFO: What on Earth?

A strange light over Lake Erie has Cleveland residents nervously eyeing the sky. Is it a conventional aircraft or have our new insect overlords arrived?

posted on March 12, 2010, at 1:50 PM

For more than a week, a mysterious pulsating light has been appearing nightly over Lake Erie east of downtown Cleveland — showing up at approximately 7:30 pm and zipping around in the darkness for about two hours before disappearing — reports MSNBC. Captured on film from various angles, it's now drawing nightly crowds at the lakefront. While Nick Pope, former chief UFO investigator at the British defense ministry, calls it a "significant sighting," some of the UFO's fans do not exactly inspire faith: "I have absolutely no expertise in this field, but I can guarantee you that it is not human!" says Eugene Erlich, a local college student who has been videotaping the lights.

FOX 8 NEWS - March 8th, 2010

EUCLID, Ohio -- Is something eerie over Lake Erie? A local man said he spotted a UFO and he believes it's proof we're not alone. "Absolutely nothing we have on this earth even looks like that," said Eugene Erlikh.

Eugene said the unexplained lights appeared outside his house in Euclid over five nights. "It was such a brilliant beam of different lights, it was going red, yellow, green, blue. It was never the same color it was always, like it was pulsating."

The unidentified flying objects remain unidentified. No one knows what they were, including the 20-year old student who admits it's hard to believe. Carla Jackson is a non-believer. "I mean, we're not too far from Canada, it could've been a light show over there or something, somebody playing."

"Once you see it with your own eyes," said Erlikh. "You're gonna say 'Wow, what's going on here' and why do they keep coming back in the same spot?"

It's not the first time someone said they saw something over the skies of Cleveland. In 2007, a group of people downtown said they saw what they thought was a UFO over Key Tower. And according to the National UFO Reporting Center, many additional sightings in Cleveland have been made in the past.

"Camera trick," said Carla Jackson. "I have to be there to actually see it."

But Erlikh wonders, "Why are they there? Why do they keep coming back, the same time, the same area? There is absolutely no reason."

The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard and several local police departments did not receive any additional reports of sightings.