 The “ghost video” became a nationwide hit and has been viewed over 85,000 times on the YouTube web site.What started as a local curiosity soon spread internationally, as CBS News, ABC News, and newspapers across the country from "The Boston Globe" to the "San Francisco Chronicle" carried the story of the “courthouse ghost.”

In November 2010, a UFO was sighted and recorded in the sky over Los Angeles by a news helicopter cameraman.The object created a rocket-like contrail rising like a pillar in the sunset approximately 35 miles off the Californian coast.