Lights of love over Lufkin

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) - Lanterns apparently were part of love in the air that prompted calls about unusual lights above Lufkin.

Some residents on Saturday night reported seeing "strange orange lights" floating over a park and headed toward Nacogdoches.

Some participants in a wedding said the ceremony included the release of several dozen lit Chinese lanterns attached to balloons.

Gail Cummings, who reported the foreign lights, told the Lufkin Daily News that she hopes this is the explanation to "put things to rest."

Fire Marshal Lee Fran Skelton said it's a dangerous idea to send anything burning into the air because "you have no idea where the lanterns will drop."

Lufkin is 115 miles northeast of Houston.