Unidentified, red and blue lights seen moving together at a high rate of speed and in random directions in Thousand Oaks, CA.
The incident I witnessed took place in Thousand Oaks, CA (SE Ventura County) at approximately 0600 – 0615 hours on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. The weather was cool with a light breeze. The sky was mostly overcast with some stars visible. It was still dark. The moon had set.
My location was in a shopping center parking lot on Janss Road and N. Moorpark Road, located about 2 miles north of US-101 freeway and about ¾ of a mile west of the CA-23 freeway which runs north and south.
At approximately 0600 hours, I happened to look up into the eastern sky and saw two lights, one blue and one red, very close together, not moving. The lights appeared at first glance to be what I thought was a hovering helicopter, from 500-1000 feet off the ground. The angle of the lights to me was about 60 degrees. The two lights were bright, clear and distinct. I would describe them like an LED. There was only a tiny separation between the two, but it was distinct. They were separate, but very close together. I would describe the size of the objects about the size of the planet Venus or maybe a tiny bit smaller. I could not see any type of aircraft or fuselage or body that they were attached to because of the darkness of the sky. If I held my thumb up to the sky to cover the object, it would cover the lights.
Because I was at work at the time, doing security for a construction crew, I had to get about my business and giving the stationary lights one last glance, I resumed doing my job.
About 5 minutes later, I happened to glance up to the eastern sky once again, wondering if the two lights I saw were still there. Indeed they were, but they were moving horizontally across the sky from south to north fairly rapidly at about a 65 degree angle to me. Then, the lights immediately began to do all sorts of strange things that you would not associate with normal aircraft. They dove down like a roller coaster and then swooped back up in a sharp climb. The drop was to about 30 degrees and then back up. This repeated – down, up, down, up –sharp and fast. There were other quick motions that I’ve never seen any aircraft do – quick changes of direction on sharp angles, for example.
Again, all of the movement of the paired lights was done at a high rate of speed. The object(s) then rose to about 60 degrees and took another sharp, high speed dive and went below my field of vision – the buildings of the shopping center not allowing me to see to the horizon -- and did not return.
Overall, I would describe the general motion of the object(s) or lights if you will, as almost entirely random in direction, moving as I said at a high rate of speed. Total duration of this portion of the sighting was about 20 seconds. I had a smartphone with me, but I was too transfixed by the incredible movements of the objects to get it out and start to record it.
Also, during the entire time of the sighting, I heard no noise from the direction of the lights.
I thought that this might be a model aircraft, but not hearing any noise at all – along with the lights – eliminated that possibility. IN FACT, there was a hobby shop in the shopping center that featured remote-piloted model aircraft and I went into the shop and asked the owner of the shop if he knew anyone who’d fly these craft at night. He said he didn’t know of anyone who would. Second, I asked him if it was common to put lights on the craft. He said the craft he sold didn’t have lights attached. So with these questions and the noise factor, I think I eliminated the possibility that it was a model aircraft.
In addition, aircraft do not have red and blue lights. Or lights that don’t flash.
Obviously, the object wasn’t a normal airplane with capabilities as we commonly associate with them nor was it a helicopter either. Because of the description of the flight of the paired lights and that I was not able to see a body, fuselage or anything else that the lights were physically attached to, moving in the manner that they did,
I decided that I had seen what could be described as a UFO and made this report.
The incident I witnessed took place in Thousand Oaks, CA (SE Ventura County) at approximately 0600 – 0615 hours on Tuesday, January 21, 2014. The weather was cool with a light breeze. The sky was mostly overcast with some stars visible. It was still dark. The moon had set.
My location was in a shopping center parking lot on Janss Road and N. Moorpark Road, located about 2 miles north of US-101 freeway and about ¾ of a mile west of the CA-23 freeway which runs north and south.
At approximately 0600 hours, I happened to look up into the eastern sky and saw two lights, one blue and one red, very close together, not moving. The lights appeared at first glance to be what I thought was a hovering helicopter, from 500-1000 feet off the ground. The angle of the lights to me was about 60 degrees. The two lights were bright, clear and distinct. I would describe them like an LED. There was only a tiny separation between the two, but it was distinct. They were separate, but very close together. I would describe the size of the objects about the size of the planet Venus or maybe a tiny bit smaller. I could not see any type of aircraft or fuselage or body that they were attached to because of the darkness of the sky. If I held my thumb up to the sky to cover the object, it would cover the lights.
Because I was at work at the time, doing security for a construction crew, I had to get about my business and giving the stationary lights one last glance, I resumed doing my job.
About 5 minutes later, I happened to glance up to the eastern sky once again, wondering if the two lights I saw were still there. Indeed they were, but they were moving horizontally across the sky from south to north fairly rapidly at about a 65 degree angle to me. Then, the lights immediately began to do all sorts of strange things that you would not associate with normal aircraft. They dove down like a roller coaster and then swooped back up in a sharp climb. The drop was to about 30 degrees and then back up. This repeated – down, up, down, up –sharp and fast. There were other quick motions that I’ve never seen any aircraft do – quick changes of direction on sharp angles, for example.
Again, all of the movement of the paired lights was done at a high rate of speed. The object(s) then rose to about 60 degrees and took another sharp, high speed dive and went below my field of vision – the buildings of the shopping center not allowing me to see to the horizon -- and did not return.
Overall, I would describe the general motion of the object(s) or lights if you will, as almost entirely random in direction, moving as I said at a high rate of speed. Total duration of this portion of the sighting was about 20 seconds. I had a smartphone with me, but I was too transfixed by the incredible movements of the objects to get it out and start to record it.
Also, during the entire time of the sighting, I heard no noise from the direction of the lights.
I thought that this might be a model aircraft, but not hearing any noise at all – along with the lights – eliminated that possibility. IN FACT, there was a hobby shop in the shopping center that featured remote-piloted model aircraft and I went into the shop and asked the owner of the shop if he knew anyone who’d fly these craft at night. He said he didn’t know of anyone who would. Second, I asked him if it was common to put lights on the craft. He said the craft he sold didn’t have lights attached. So with these questions and the noise factor, I think I eliminated the possibility that it was a model aircraft.
In addition, aircraft do not have red and blue lights. Or lights that don’t flash.
Obviously, the object wasn’t a normal airplane with capabilities as we commonly associate with them nor was it a helicopter either. Because of the description of the flight of the paired lights and that I was not able to see a body, fuselage or anything else that the lights were physically attached to, moving in the manner that they did,
I decided that I had seen what could be described as a UFO and made this report.
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Thousand Oaks
USA
20 seconds
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34.20
-118.84
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CA
Occurred : 1/21/2014 06:00 (Entered as : 01/21/2014 06:00) Reported: 1/21/2014 6:04:40 PM 18:04 Posted: 1/24/2014 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA Shape: Light Duration: 20 seconds Characteristics: There were lights on the object
Unidentified, red and blue lights seen moving together at a high rate of speed and in random directions in Thousand Oaks, CA.