Orange/yellow lights seen from Ocean Beach, San Diego, rising till no longer visible.
My wife and I were leaving a friend’s house in Ocean Beach, and I went to start loading the car with all the goodies that our 15 month needs. As always, I was looking up at the sky as I walked to the car and noticed two bright orange lights. I thought nothing of this since there are many aircraft in the area (commercial and military) and I thought the odd colour was just due to atmospheric conditions or something else.
As I kept scanning the sky I noticed that all “normal” aircraft’s lights were their “normal” colours, with the usual flashing red markers, etc. So I looked back at the orange lights and noticed that they hadn’t seemed to have moved much, nor changed in size or intensity. This was intriguing, so I kept on watching. I noticed that the lights were moving very slowly but regularly towards the south. Then they suddenly shifted direction and started moving slowly west and then north – without changing colour/intensity/etc.
There were a few other people in the front-yard of my friend’s house and I asked them to look – but they kind of just shrugged their shoulders since I was doing a pretty good Richard Dreyfuss as the realization of seeing a real UFO was dawning on me.
I ran to my car to get my video camera and by the time I got that, powered it up and pointed it at the sky – all of 2 minutes – the lights were dim but seemed to be in the same position as when I last looked. One was dimmer than the other – even though they had both been roughly the same intensity before. I shot some footage but haven’t even bothered looking at it yet, as I expect the CMOS sensor and auto-focus probably screwed the whole “capture”. The world doesn’t need yet another crappy piece of UFO footage, I’m guessing.
Anyway, I continued to watch the lights dim-out which they did over about another 2 minutes.
Later, when trying to make sense of what I’d seen, I thought it must have been some rocket or satellite boosters or something of that nature, but there were no contrails or any smoke or haze around these lights. And if they were military jets, or something of that nature, then they must have been climbing for a hell of a long time – but without making any sound at all. And their motion from earlier wouldn’t fit normal aircraft flying characteristics.
So, this was a UFO – I’d love to think it was ET and that 2008 was going to be the year – but I’ll be happy with a much less glamorous resolution to this.
BTW - I noticed that the following report, is very similar to my own: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/060/S60019.html I am a video systems software engineer, an amateur astronomer and a hang glider pilot. I like looking at the skies! And I’ve seen lots of video footage of rocket/shuttle launches/etc.
My wife and I were leaving a friend’s house in Ocean Beach, and I went to start loading the car with all the goodies that our 15 month needs. As always, I was looking up at the sky as I walked to the car and noticed two bright orange lights. I thought nothing of this since there are many aircraft in the area (commercial and military) and I thought the odd colour was just due to atmospheric conditions or something else.
As I kept scanning the sky I noticed that all “normal” aircraft’s lights were their “normal” colours, with the usual flashing red markers, etc. So I looked back at the orange lights and noticed that they hadn’t seemed to have moved much, nor changed in size or intensity. This was intriguing, so I kept on watching. I noticed that the lights were moving very slowly but regularly towards the south. Then they suddenly shifted direction and started moving slowly west and then north – without changing colour/intensity/etc.
There were a few other people in the front-yard of my friend’s house and I asked them to look – but they kind of just shrugged their shoulders since I was doing a pretty good Richard Dreyfuss as the realization of seeing a real UFO was dawning on me.
I ran to my car to get my video camera and by the time I got that, powered it up and pointed it at the sky – all of 2 minutes – the lights were dim but seemed to be in the same position as when I last looked. One was dimmer than the other – even though they had both been roughly the same intensity before. I shot some footage but haven’t even bothered looking at it yet, as I expect the CMOS sensor and auto-focus probably screwed the whole “capture”. The world doesn’t need yet another crappy piece of UFO footage, I’m guessing.
Anyway, I continued to watch the lights dim-out which they did over about another 2 minutes.
Later, when trying to make sense of what I’d seen, I thought it must have been some rocket or satellite boosters or something of that nature, but there were no contrails or any smoke or haze around these lights. And if they were military jets, or something of that nature, then they must have been climbing for a hell of a long time – but without making any sound at all. And their motion from earlier wouldn’t fit normal aircraft flying characteristics.
So, this was a UFO – I’d love to think it was ET and that 2008 was going to be the year – but I’ll be happy with a much less glamorous resolution to this.
BTW - I noticed that the following report, is very similar to my own: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/060/S60019.html I am a video systems software engineer, an amateur astronomer and a hang glider pilot. I like looking at the skies! And I’ve seen lots of video footage of rocket/shuttle launches/etc.
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San Diego
USA
5 mins
5 mins
32.84
-117.16
light
CA
Occurred : 12/22/2007 18:00 (Entered as : 12/22/07 18:00) Reported: 1/2/2008 12:07:02 AM 00:07 Posted: 1/21/2008 Location: San Diego, CA Shape: Light Duration: 5 mins
Orange/yellow lights seen from Ocean Beach, San Diego, rising till no longer visible.