What's that in the sky?

You never know what you might see when watching the skies.

Local artist Charity Hommel was outside last Wednesday with her husband, Joe, when he spotted a strange flash of light moving in the sky.

"To us it looked like a meteor," Hommel recounted. The idea seemed plausible enough, as the annual Perseid meteor shower was most visible from Aug. 11-13. The couple was at their home on Howell Avenue at the time, on the backside of Mount Dewey, looking northward.

"It was pulsing," she recalled, "bright like a streetlight." What stood out most to her were its twin tails of flame. "It was very unique....