Published: 10:42 AM 2/1/2010

By Joel Currier, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri - 01-30-10

Did you see what Bill Cole says he saw?

Cole, 64, of the Harbor Town subdivision in Lake Saint Louis, called the Post-Dispatch this morning wondering if anyone else spotted what he claims seeing Saturday night: an illuminated flying saucer hovering above Lake Saint Louis.

Cole says he was watching a movie at home–District 9–about 9:30 p.m. when his son Jacob Cole, 30, stepped outside for some air. (Cole doesn’t think the science fiction thriller about aliens influenced him in any way.)

“Come here and look at this,” Cole says his son yelled.

So he walked out to his front porch and says he noticed what he described as a flying saucer gliding not far from St. Joseph Hospital West. Cole insists it wasn’t a helicopter landing at the hospital because those are fairly common and are so loud they often rattle his house, he said.

“This was no noise. No sound. No nothing,” Cole said. “You could see the lights on the thing changing from bright red, to blue, to light green, to violet and changing back to red again.”

Cole said the saucer hovered for about 90 seconds, tilted and dipped out of view. His son called 911 to report it and Cole says the dispatcher said one other caller reported a similar sighting.

“It was pretty bizarre,” Cole said. “I’ll be 65 years old in June and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Jacob Cole called his buddy and neighbor, Jack Hogrebe, 30, and told him to look out his back window.

Hogrebe said he, too, saw flashing lights and thought it might be a large LED unit or possibly some kind of emergency vehicle or aircraft with flashing lights. But he said he changed his mind when its colors turned yellow and green.

“I did see something and I don’t know what the hell it was,” he said.

Police haven’t dismissed Cole’s claim, but officers and dispatchers at area departments said Sunday they have no reports of UFO sightings last night.