2007-12-25 - Pensacola, FL - Light

On December 25, 2007, at around 7:00PM, I spotted something flying across the sky.

I was waiting in the driveway for some friends of mine to show up. While I was waiting, I was observing this bright star ( I think it was the planet Mars that I was seeing) and some of the other stars that was shinning that night. I noticed the moon was just beginning to rise on the horizon. The moon was mostly hidden by some oak trees, but I could still see the moon’s light shinning through the trees. Then I noticed a blinking red light moving in the sky near the upper left of the moon. The red light would stay on for about 1 second and then off for 1 second as the object traveled North in direction. I watched it for about a minute, then I ran inside to get my Mom who I was visiting Christmas day. We both hurried back outside, and I was able to quickly locate the object again. She had a little difficulty at first in locating the object, but finally she was able to locate the blinking red light in the sky. It might have been a plane flying, but I thought a plane also had a white strobe light that flashes brilliantly off and on, not a red light for a strobe light. Normally when I see a plane flying at night, I would see a white, strobe light flashing off and on, and red lights or green light that is continuously lit on. The red light seem bigger in light effect than the red lights I normally see on the wing's tip of a plane. I didn’t hear any noise of any planes flying while observing the blinking red light; it was just really quite outside except for when a car occasionally drives by me on the road. Maybe it was a plane flying, and if it was a plane flying, it definably didn’t have the normal lights it suppose to have to indicate that it was a plane flying. It almost seem like it was a satellite moving across the sky, but it would have been way too low, I think, for it to be a satellite, especially blinking off and on a red light.