2007-12-11 - Tallahassee, FL - Triangle

Strange lights overhead at dusk, possibly very quiet aircraft in close formation

Dogs barked immediately prior and after. What at first appeared to be a large commercial aircraft flew towards me, apparently on approach to a nearby airport, but as it passed overheard I noted a lack of engine noise and that the "front landing" light was an usually large distance away from the wing lights. The aircraft made a very low rumbling noise apparent as it passed.

There were red and green strobes and white lights on the wings of the trailing aircraft, and the forward aircraft had a single white light that turned red as it traveled away. The rear aircraft lights alternated, I can remember which were strobing as it approach and which were as it departed, but they altered their strobe pattern as they passed overhead.

The lights formed a triangular shape in the sky with the base approximately one 6th of the height. As the lights traveled away, the front one drifted out of line with the rear, making it apparent that there were two aircraft in very close formation.

Alternatively I could postulate a large cylindrically object with some sort of light tracking around the front of the exterior.

Immediately after the aircraft had passed there, a light propeller driven aircraft traveled behind and perpendicular to the aircraft, immediately followed by two others much further but also perpendicular traveling in the same direction.

The aircraft in question traveled north to south while the probably unrelated three transited south of my location from west to east.

AS for the observer, I was standing in my back yard and the night before had wished loudly that I could see a ufo. Have noted other unusual effects of my silent thoughts.

Dogs barked after the lights had passed.

I'm not saying these weren't conventional aircraft, however if they were they were flying very close to together, fairly low and very very quiet. If a car had driven past at the time of the noise I never would have heard it.