UFO Mystery In Southeast Missouri Solved

The Denver Channel
POSTED: 10:17 AM EDT September 2, 2004
UFO Mystery In Southeast Missouri Solved

JACKSON, Mo. -- That was no UFO in the skies above the southeast Missouri town of Jackson.

A UFO that was the talk of Jackson has turned out to be nothing more than a vacation Bible school game gone awry.

Three weeks ago, Zach Stanfield, 16, videotaped a shadowy disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above his home. The Southeast Missourian newspaper ran a front page photo of the disc, taken from the video, with a story about an unidentified flying object hovering over Jackson.

But there were no little green men inside it.

The UFO actually was a mylar disc that had been purchased for children attending vacation Bible school at Calvary United Pentecostal Church. In an effort to make it fly, Edward Moore, the husband of a church member said he put too much helium inside a mylar disc and it floated away.

Cherie Moore said she and her husband just about died when they saw a newspaper report on the supposed UFO.