2020-05-29 - Santa Cruz, CA - Light

I was actually parked on the cliffs in Aptos looking for UFOs at the time. I have neen really into the whole UFO topic for a 6ear or two now. I've been actively looking at the night sky for a few months and recently began seeing things.

This night, I was scanning the sky and ocean over aptos and Santa Cruz with my infrared binoculars. Suddenly a crazy bright light on the horizon startled me. Through my binoculars, it was as big and bright as the setting sun! But this was night time , the sun had set over an hour ago. I watched this bright orange round light that sat on the horizon over the santa cruz side of Monterey Bay for 20 ish minutes. It was still most of that time. Finally it began slowly pulsing in brightness, getting so bright that at one point, it turned my binoculars from regular mode to infrared mode by itself. Then it began to move slowly north. Horizontally, along the horizon. It moved slowly away until it was behind the peninsula that is Capitola, yet I could still watch its progress because bright orange rays of light shining up from behind the land gave away its position as it went. Eventually I couldn't see it anymore. I've been trying to find anyone else who witnessed this. Nothing y! et ... but it was SO bright other people had to have seen it too.

I found an article online from Australia a couple years ago that shows the exact same event. That article said that authorities suggested it was just extra fuel burning off at their oil refinery. Obvious bullshit story... we have nothing like that here, either. I took pictures, video, on both cell phone and the binoculars.