Three star-like lights traveling in formation West to East that disappear.
On August 12, 2005 about midnight, my wife and I were up to watch the Perseid meteor shower. We were lying on our backs on our trampoline in the back yard of our Simi Valley, CA home. At approximately the same time, we both noticed three lights, no brighter than the brightest visible stars, moving from West to East. I first thought them to be satellites, but they did not move in a straight line and I did not think satellites would travel together in a set of three. Next, I thought they might be a high-flying formation of military aircraft. The middle one was out in front of the other two. However, they were jostling around and did not remain in a tight formation. We watched them for about 10-15 seconds. Then when they were at about 80-85 degrees from vertical, the lights simply vanished. I cannot explain why the lights went out if they were standard airplane lights. It is possible that the objects were at high enought altitude to still be catching reflection from the sun and then passed far enough to the East that the sun went under their horizon. I am not sure how high they would have to be to still be catching rays from the sun at midnight, however.
On August 12, 2005 about midnight, my wife and I were up to watch the Perseid meteor shower. We were lying on our backs on our trampoline in the back yard of our Simi Valley, CA home. At approximately the same time, we both noticed three lights, no brighter than the brightest visible stars, moving from West to East. I first thought them to be satellites, but they did not move in a straight line and I did not think satellites would travel together in a set of three. Next, I thought they might be a high-flying formation of military aircraft. The middle one was out in front of the other two. However, they were jostling around and did not remain in a tight formation. We watched them for about 10-15 seconds. Then when they were at about 80-85 degrees from vertical, the lights simply vanished. I cannot explain why the lights went out if they were standard airplane lights. It is possible that the objects were at high enought altitude to still be catching reflection from the sun and then passed far enough to the East that the sun went under their horizon. I am not sure how high they would have to be to still be catching rays from the sun at midnight, however.
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Simi Valley
USA
15 seconds
15 seconds
34.28
-118.74
light
CA
Occurred : 8/12/2005 00:00 (Entered as : 08/12/1905 0:00) Reported: 8/15/2005 11:18:44 PM 23:18 Posted: 9/2/2005 Location: Simi Valley, CA Shape: Light Duration: 15 seconds
Three star-like lights traveling in formation West to East that disappear.