2004-04-25 - Kansas City, MO - Other

Two clusters of four black blobs floating and moving at dusk.

I just experience this 15 minutes ago and I'm still trying to figure out what it was. It was approx. dusk. From my window I could see a very odd black mass in the sky, possibly I thought a bunch of balloons but it was floating in a "non-balloon like manner" if that makes any sense. I went out to my porch to look at it more closely and it was just sort of hovering there. It seemed quite dense. It was approximately 1/4 the size of the full moon. It looked like it was moving higher and getting smaller. I ran to get my video camera. When I got back, it looked like it was very faint in the sky, but I have zoom on my camera so I tried to frame it. I managed to frame it briefly and it looked very very odd. Two clusters of four black blobs all floating around in a semi-symetrical manner. Then, after 1 minute total of filming, my camera battery died. Which is very strange, as it was on the charger when I brought it onto the balcony. I continued to look but it was almost invisible at this point. What I thought might be the "cluster" (at this point just a dark point) seemed to be approached slowly by another black point in the sky. Then it got too dark to see anything. No light emitted by anything to my eyes. A very strange experience. It could have been a cluster of balloons released, but they didn't seem to move straight up when I first saw them. They seemed to move lateraly. A very freaky experience. I can try to upload the video (it was a digital camcorder) if you are interested.