E.T. has left the county

A report of a UFO near Peabody sent two deputies and a Peabody police officer looking Sunday night, but no aliens were found.

Dispatchers told deputies a caller reported a strange light, described as “very large” and “a blue-green object about 500 miles in the sky.” The caller said the object might be a meteor, but “did not rule out anything.”

Dispatchers already had called Harvey County authorities, but no calls had been made to them.

Reaching the county line, a Peabody officer told dispatchers he had no contact “with any kind of UFO.”

The deputies then canceled their search.