3 Translucent gray equidistant circles connected by straight bars
On June 24th @ approx. 11p, my son and I were talking and having a cigarette in the backyard. I was lying down on my chaise star gazing, as I do every clear night, looking northeast.
Something large and low suddenly caught my eye to the southwest. As I was turning my head I thought I was going to see a bird, until my eyes locked onto the object.
Three gray/translucent perfectly equidistant disks connected by lines/bars flew slowly and silently overhead, then completely disappeared before a tree positioned to my left (northeast). The size of each disk was apparent 1 degree in diameter.
My mind was quickly running through all of the things it could have been; tethered balloons? No, flying perfectly aligned together, never breaking formation. Remote-controlled toy? No, it was translucent with a dull luminescence and the way it was flying was just too odd and absolutely disappeared in flight. The only way I can explain its appearance and flight path is as if I was looking at the back end of a vehicle in flight, but couldn't see the front body of it.
It only was visible for about 5-6 seconds then completely disappeared BEFORE it would've gone behind a tree. I'm really not sure of the height, but it looked about 200-500 feet in the air; hard to tell because of its translucency. Unfortunately, by the time my son looked up it was already gone.
I've been an avid star watcher for a few years, so I know what is normally in the sky. I know which are satellites, iridium flares, space station, stars, planets, planes, helicopters, etc. This really was nothing I've ever seen before.
My other grown son and couple of his friends have also seen transparent low flying crafts at the height of 200 ft (explains the craft as cigar shaped, transparent as if looking through a heat wave & having 3 gill shaped lights on the underbelly) late at night at our house; 1 last year and 1 about 2 years ago.
Three yrs ago, my grown daughter and her friend were lying on the roof. They saw an enormous triangular black craft with a white light at each corner (she explains it as about the size of her hand at arm's length) fly directly, silently over them at approx. 600-1000 ft high. It scared them so much they were crying hysterically and ran inside.
My kids and I are truly objective, grounded people who I believe have just seen very unusual things. I work as an analyst, so it's my job to be observant, analytical and objective.
I would very much like to know if anyone else saw it or have ever seen anything like what I've described. I've attached a drawing of what I saw at my perspective lying down on my back; porch overhang to my right/southwest (where I first spotted it), tree to my left/northeast (where it disappeared PRIOR to the tree). Hope the visual helps.
Thanks for your time.
On June 24th @ approx. 11p, my son and I were talking and having a cigarette in the backyard. I was lying down on my chaise star gazing, as I do every clear night, looking northeast.
Something large and low suddenly caught my eye to the southwest. As I was turning my head I thought I was going to see a bird, until my eyes locked onto the object.
Three gray/translucent perfectly equidistant disks connected by lines/bars flew slowly and silently overhead, then completely disappeared before a tree positioned to my left (northeast). The size of each disk was apparent 1 degree in diameter.
My mind was quickly running through all of the things it could have been; tethered balloons? No, flying perfectly aligned together, never breaking formation. Remote-controlled toy? No, it was translucent with a dull luminescence and the way it was flying was just too odd and absolutely disappeared in flight. The only way I can explain its appearance and flight path is as if I was looking at the back end of a vehicle in flight, but couldn't see the front body of it.
It only was visible for about 5-6 seconds then completely disappeared BEFORE it would've gone behind a tree. I'm really not sure of the height, but it looked about 200-500 feet in the air; hard to tell because of its translucency. Unfortunately, by the time my son looked up it was already gone.
I've been an avid star watcher for a few years, so I know what is normally in the sky. I know which are satellites, iridium flares, space station, stars, planets, planes, helicopters, etc. This really was nothing I've ever seen before.
My other grown son and couple of his friends have also seen transparent low flying crafts at the height of 200 ft (explains the craft as cigar shaped, transparent as if looking through a heat wave & having 3 gill shaped lights on the underbelly) late at night at our house; 1 last year and 1 about 2 years ago.
Three yrs ago, my grown daughter and her friend were lying on the roof. They saw an enormous triangular black craft with a white light at each corner (she explains it as about the size of her hand at arm's length) fly directly, silently over them at approx. 600-1000 ft high. It scared them so much they were crying hysterically and ran inside.
My kids and I are truly objective, grounded people who I believe have just seen very unusual things. I work as an analyst, so it's my job to be observant, analytical and objective.
I would very much like to know if anyone else saw it or have ever seen anything like what I've described. I've attached a drawing of what I saw at my perspective lying down on my back; porch overhang to my right/southwest (where I first spotted it), tree to my left/northeast (where it disappeared PRIOR to the tree). Hope the visual helps.
Thanks for your time.
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Citrus Heights
USA
5-6 seconds
5-6 seconds
38.70
-121.29
formation
CA
Occurred : 6/24/2011 23:05 (Entered as : 06/24/2011 23:05) Reported: 6/30/2011 6:16:24 PM 18:16 Posted: 7/4/2011 Location: Citrus Heights, CA Shape: Formation Duration: 5-6 seconds
3 Translucent gray equidistant circles connected by straight bars