Pulse Plasma light / craft
As I was walking my dog just a few minutes ago I was looking up at the stars and saw, what I thought was a satellite. It was about the same magnitude of an ordinary star, and sometimes you’ll see a satellite in the morning or at night when the sun from over the horizon hits them just right. For reference it was moving slightly faster than the satellites I’ve seen in the past. That would mean it was either moving faster than a satellite, or at a similar speed, but lower altitude. It was moving on an almost perfect easterly heading, if anything a little east to northeast. It did not appear to maneuver or change directions.
As I watched it arc across the sky all of a sudden it was surrounded by a brilliant flash. That’s when I knew it wasn’t an ordinary satellite I was seeing it was something else. The flash was not like a strobe light of an airplane, but more like a cloud of plasma that enveloped the light. Relative to the size of the light I saw moving, the flash appeared to be about 10 times its size. Then it flashed again about every 5 to 7 seconds. I watched it until it was out of sight, but then I saw another flash even though I couldn’t see the light itself. Whatever it was, it just kept on going.
While technically a UFO, I’m beginning to think I might have seen a high altitude spy aircraft, or black aircraft. The flash could have been a pulse detonation type of propulsion system, or atmospheric skip vehicle. If it was emitting a pulse, or skipping the atmosphere at the altitude I think it was, its exhaust, or the interaction with the atmosphere might have created the flash / plasma effect I was seeing. The color of the light / vehicle, and the flash were identical, both appearing a brilliant white, similar to a white LED light in color temperature. There were no other colors or lights that one might normally associate with an aircraft. Other than the light / flash I could not distinguish the planform of an aircraft or any structure. Again, it was dark, moving fairly fast and at high altitude.
Here comes the strange part. As I watched the light arc across the sky, all of a sudden I see a shooting star or something cross its path immediately behind it. Whatever that was, it was a very very quick streak of light, but in an amber color. The streak was moving on a line I would estimate to be north to northwest in direction. So I’m thinking did something just shoot at this thing? Or was this a total coincidence. Very odd, hopefully someone else saw this too.
(I was a trained aircraft observer for the Western Michigan University flight team in the early 1990’s. During the flight competitions we had an aircraft recognition tests so I was trained to visually identify a wide variety of commercial and military aircraft.)
((NUFORC Note: Possibly a flare from an Iridium satellite. PD))
As I was walking my dog just a few minutes ago I was looking up at the stars and saw, what I thought was a satellite. It was about the same magnitude of an ordinary star, and sometimes you’ll see a satellite in the morning or at night when the sun from over the horizon hits them just right. For reference it was moving slightly faster than the satellites I’ve seen in the past. That would mean it was either moving faster than a satellite, or at a similar speed, but lower altitude. It was moving on an almost perfect easterly heading, if anything a little east to northeast. It did not appear to maneuver or change directions.
As I watched it arc across the sky all of a sudden it was surrounded by a brilliant flash. That’s when I knew it wasn’t an ordinary satellite I was seeing it was something else. The flash was not like a strobe light of an airplane, but more like a cloud of plasma that enveloped the light. Relative to the size of the light I saw moving, the flash appeared to be about 10 times its size. Then it flashed again about every 5 to 7 seconds. I watched it until it was out of sight, but then I saw another flash even though I couldn’t see the light itself. Whatever it was, it just kept on going.
While technically a UFO, I’m beginning to think I might have seen a high altitude spy aircraft, or black aircraft. The flash could have been a pulse detonation type of propulsion system, or atmospheric skip vehicle. If it was emitting a pulse, or skipping the atmosphere at the altitude I think it was, its exhaust, or the interaction with the atmosphere might have created the flash / plasma effect I was seeing. The color of the light / vehicle, and the flash were identical, both appearing a brilliant white, similar to a white LED light in color temperature. There were no other colors or lights that one might normally associate with an aircraft. Other than the light / flash I could not distinguish the planform of an aircraft or any structure. Again, it was dark, moving fairly fast and at high altitude.
Here comes the strange part. As I watched the light arc across the sky, all of a sudden I see a shooting star or something cross its path immediately behind it. Whatever that was, it was a very very quick streak of light, but in an amber color. The streak was moving on a line I would estimate to be north to northwest in direction. So I’m thinking did something just shoot at this thing? Or was this a total coincidence. Very odd, hopefully someone else saw this too.
(I was a trained aircraft observer for the Western Michigan University flight team in the early 1990’s. During the flight competitions we had an aircraft recognition tests so I was trained to visually identify a wide variety of commercial and military aircraft.)
((NUFORC Note: Possibly a flare from an Iridium satellite. PD))
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Davenport
USA
30 seconds
30 seconds
28.22
-81.62
light
FL
Occurred : 3/20/2007 06:15 (Entered as : 03/20/07 06:15) Reported: 3/20/2007 4:06:57 AM 04:06 Posted: 4/27/2007 Location: Davenport, FL Shape: Light Duration: 30 seconds Characteristics: There was an aura or haze around the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Pulse Plasma light / craft ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a flare from an Iridium satellite. PD))