Joe Carmichael was enjoying the crisp fall air as he raked leaves in Central Park alongside his fellow park volunteers one weekend last month. The sky was blue and the holidays, being just around the corner, lent an air of glee to the entire scene. What happened next, though, brought Joe's carefree whistling from a song to a what whoa? when he discovered under the pile of leaves he was raking a strange pattern of burn marks on the ground below.
"These here burn marks wasn't like nothin' I'd ever seen in my life," said Joe as he tried to explain exactly what it was he saw beneath the brightly colored leaves. "It's as if someone or some thing had taken a blow torch and completely obliterated the topsoil down about an inch or so. The soil itself was charred blacker than coal," he said.
And then he claims he saw what appeared to be non-human, non-animal footprints. Asked how he knew this, he answered "because I never saw anything like it in my life, that's how."
The finds seem to coincide with several reports from residents living in condos directly overlooking Central Park. Sylvia Blumenquist, who has lived in the Matterhorn Co-op Apartments for the last 17 years claims that she was on her balcony one evening in late November when all of a sudden she saw several brightly colored orbs floating just above the ground in precisely the same spot that Carmichael found the burn marks and footprints.
Several people have reported these strange happenings on their blog sites and since then, several UFO enthusiasts have visited Central Park to get a better look and determine what, if anything, is going on. In the meantime, park authorities are asking visitors to keep their shoes on in the area in case whatever is making the strange lights appear just happens to be dangerous or worse yet, radioactive. You can find further information regarding this phenomenon at www.JoeCarWhoa.web.
