Enormous oval shaped light, flashing on and off, illuminating through clouds as it moved at high rate of speed through sky.
I am a retired lady, in my 60's and have been a star gazer and observer of aircraft or anything in the sky for many years, but I have never seen anything like I did last night.
About 11:50 PM Thursday night, I was taking out some garbage. The sky was mostly clear with some light clouds. Air was calm. I looked up in the sky and saw a flash of light through the clouds. The light flashed on, then quickly off. It flashed on and off again within seconds, but was already quite a distance south of where I first saw it. It continued flashing and moving north to south, until out of sight. I did not see any craft or what might have caused the light.
The light illuminated an oval shape through the clouds and larger than anything I have ever seen in the sky before. I don't know the dimensions, but it dwarfed any aircraft I've ever seen. You could compare it to a honeybee on a football. There was no sound at all. There is no aircraft I know of that could illuminate such a large area. Could not tell how high it was because it was above a line of clouds the whole time, but just above the planes flying in the area, which were clearly visible.
I am a retired lady, in my 60's and have been a star gazer and observer of aircraft or anything in the sky for many years, but I have never seen anything like I did last night.
About 11:50 PM Thursday night, I was taking out some garbage. The sky was mostly clear with some light clouds. Air was calm. I looked up in the sky and saw a flash of light through the clouds. The light flashed on, then quickly off. It flashed on and off again within seconds, but was already quite a distance south of where I first saw it. It continued flashing and moving north to south, until out of sight. I did not see any craft or what might have caused the light.
The light illuminated an oval shape through the clouds and larger than anything I have ever seen in the sky before. I don't know the dimensions, but it dwarfed any aircraft I've ever seen. You could compare it to a honeybee on a football. There was no sound at all. There is no aircraft I know of that could illuminate such a large area. Could not tell how high it was because it was above a line of clouds the whole time, but just above the planes flying in the area, which were clearly visible.
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Westminster
USA
30 seconds
30 seconds
33.75
-117.99
light
CA
Occurred : 6/20/2013 23:50 (Entered as : 06/20/13 23:50) Reported: 6/21/2013 1:41:50 PM 13:41 Posted: 7/3/2013 Location: Westminster, CA Shape: Light Duration: 30 seconds Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Enormous oval shaped light, flashing on and off, illuminating through clouds as it moved at high rate of speed through sky.