REGION Man reports seeing fast object move across early-morning sky

Employees at Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center reported seeing a shooting star.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Harold Hagerty was sitting on his Richview Avenue porch having an early morning cigarette and cup of coffee around 5:45 a.m. Monday when a bright object moving across the sky caught his attention.
It was moving at a rapid pace from north to south and remained in view for only two or three seconds, Hagerty said, describing the light it gave off as bluish-green. The underside was an orangish-yellow and the object left a bluish-green tail, he said.
"It wasn't very high," Hagerty said. It was low enough that he could see that the object was egg-shaped, he said.
Hagerty, an employee of V & amp;M Star Steel, wasn't the only one to see something flash through the early morning sky.
Seen in Cleveland
Neither the control tower at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport nor Youngstown State University's Ward Beecher Planetarium had morning reports of any objects falling from the sky. Nevertheless, some employees at the Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center reported seeing what they reported as a shooting star at that hour.
Meteors don't show up on radar, a spokesman said.
WTAM Radio in Cleveland had a number of employees working at a radio remote location who also saw the object.
Some said it appeared to be a shooting star, but the wife of one employee said it was a greenish object, according to a WTAM reporter.
Dr. Warren Young, chairman of the YSU Physics and Astronomy Department, speculated that the object might have been some comet debris or debris from the asteroid belt.
Hagerty stopped short of calling the object a flying saucer but said he doesn't believe it was a meteor because of the colors it emitted, nor does he think it was an airplane. "Nothing we have moves that fast," he said.