2005-06-07 - San Diego, CA - Unknown

12-15 red lights over the Pacific (many miles out) changing formation, but NOT moving, and very distinct from our beach condo

We were staying at a condo on Mission Beach, San Diego on the 3rd floor. My husband saw the lights first. They were in the shape of a triangle at first, then the lights would change shape. He called us all over after he saw them in the triangle formation. The lights were red and were far out in the Pacific Ocean. I thought it was a mast of a ship or large naval ship but everyone else thought they were too high above the horizon line to be a ship. The lights didn't move. It was like there was a string of lights and certain ones would turn off while other ones would turn on. At one point it looked like the outline of a bow of a ship sinking into the ocean but it would have to have been a ship about 800 feet tall and 400 feet long for it to have been as visible as it was to us. There were probably 12 to 15 lights total. After watching them for about 15 minutes, they reduced down to 3 in a triangle formation and then they just went off. Were not sure if it was one big object with lights on it or if it was several individual lights/objects. I (only me) am still not convinced it was not a ship of some sort. We turned on the news but could find no coverage of the event. Not being from the area, we didn't know if it was some kind of practice for the 4th of July lighted boat harbor event. Definitely not fireworks or flares, though.