Saturday, April 5, 2008

Eye's playing tricks on me??

Today I saw something that was really weird. The only thing I can call it is an Unidentified Flying Object or a UFO. I am sure it is nothing, but I cannot stop thinking about what I saw. I decided to do a quick Google search tonight to see if anyone posted something along the lines of "lights over Eastern Seaboard" or "Lights over Atlantic Ocean", but i didn't find anything.

I found nothing except a link to the National UFO Reporting Center so I decided to file a report to see if anyone else saw what I saw.

Here is what I posted on the NUFORC site.

Today I was standing outside at around 5:30pm and a bright star over the Atlantic ocean caught my eye. At first I thought it was just an early bright star, kind of like when you see the moon early in the afternoon. The sky was very clear.

I figured it might be a "star" because the sun was now in the west, behind me.
It was very high in the sky. It had height similar to a star or even a satellite moving in low orbit, but was stationary.

We live in an area that does not have high light pollution, so at night (especially in the summers) we are able to see satellites at night when they fly over. Our views are so good that one evening last year we were able to see a NOSS satellite group fly over. The Thinker, Lead Singer, and others can back me up on the satellites and NOSS sightings.

I was able to gauge the height when an aircraft was flying at what appeared to be it's maximum altitude to the left of the "star" and the "star" was much higher than the aircraft. I knew the aircraft was high due to its jet stream. There were also two birds flying at a height that dismissed the chance of the "star" being a balloon.

Suddenly a second light appeared and was aligned in a way similar to Orion's belt.
The second "star" seemed to have started to move slowly below the first "star".

In order to make sure the second "star" was moving I closed one eye and used my finger as marker and sure enough the lower "star" was moving in a southern direction.

Literally, in a blink of an eye the moving star was gone. It just disappeared. No flash or high acceleration, just gone.

I was looking back to the first star when it too disappeared.
I waited for a few more minutes for the "stars" to reappear but they did not.

This has been bothering me all day so I decided to post it here to see if anyone else has seen it.

For those of you, Zed, who are going to bust my balls about this, I know what I saw and have no issue with it so bring it on.

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