PIKESVILLE, Md. – It wasn’t a UFO or spectral manifestation. A middle-of-the-night mystery that rattled and baffled residents for months may finally have been solved with police making an real-world arrest.

Deafening blasts accompanied by blinding split-second flashes of light have been rattling residents of one neighborhood f this Baltimore suburb for months. Elaine O’Mansky says she has heard the noise 25 times since September, always between midnight and dawn.

She says the accompanying flash was bright enough to light up her bedroom. Barbara Friedman says the first time she heard the blast she thought someone was shooting at her.

Police officers Vickie Warehime and J. Posluszny Jr. said the department set up cameras and recorded the phenomena last week, but didn’t detect anyone in the area. The recorded flash lit up an area the size of a football field. ased on shadows, police believe the light source was in the air about 30 feet above the ground near the Beth Tfiloh Community School.

altimore County Police spokesman, Cpl. Mike Hill, confirmed Tuesday that someone had been arrested in connection with the mystery but could not immediately provide any details.

After physically fighting, newlyweds end up in jail

PITTSBURGH – A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells – she in her wedding gown – after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.

The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn, according to police. It escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said. The melee moved to an elevator and then to the lobby, where the couple threw metal planters at the two guests of the other party, causing minor injuries, police charged.

“It was pretty wild,” Ross police Sgt. Dave Syska said.

Dentist David W. Wielechowski, 32, and Christa Vattimo, 25, had married a month earlier in the Bahamas but repeated their vows Saturday. They were checking into their room when the argument began, police said.

Police arrived to find the dentist lying on the lobby floor and his bride screaming, they said.

Authorities charged them both with simple assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, and the bride with an additional count of public intoxication.

They face a May 7 preliminary hearing.

A district judge considered issuing a restraining order against Wielechowski, but his new bride declined the measure.

The couple declined comment upon their release Sunday morning.

She left with her father, still dressed in her white gown.

Wielechowski left alone, sporting a swollen eye, tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.