2003-11-19 - Redlands, CA - Light

Singular light in night sky. Shifted intensity irregularly. Appeared to give off red, green, white, blue, purple light.

I've never done this before. But over the past month or so, I've seen an bright light in the night sky. To the naked eye, it looks like it is the intensity of Mars when it was at its closest to Earth. But Mars is unmistakably reddish-orange. This light appeared to change in intensity quickly and irregularly. Through binoculars and a telescope other colors such as green, red, white, blue, and purple were distinguishable. I have a Canon A70 camera. I haven't learned all of the settings of the camera, but I tried to take pictures with a longer exposure so as to capture as much light as I could. Here are some of the photos I took. If you zoom in about 600% you'll see the object more clearly.

I live in Redlands, California. I'd say that the object was in a southern direction. Standing out if front of a two story house, the object was below the top of the roof. I noticed it tonight November 19,2003 at approximately 11:00 pm. I observed it for about 30 minutes. In the first few minutes I could tell it was moving relative to another star that was visible near it. After about 5 mintues or so, it seemed to stop. Under a telescope, it moved gently off of view. So it looked like it was still moving, but very very slowly. Under binoculars and telescope, the light appeared to be 'rectagular' or 'cylindrical'. It was longer up and down that it was wide from right to left. Any how, here are a few of the pics I took. I don't mind being contacted if you think it's anything worth checking into.

((NUFORC Note: Witness probably was looking at Sirius. PD))