Thursday, February 10, 2005
Alien visit--brief but satisfying...
Mystery Lights Spotted
Last night 2/9/05 at about 7:00 Anne and I were out for our nightly dog walk and we saw two unusually bright stars to the Southeast--just above the Canis Major constellation. I marked their positions for you on this handy star map with green "X" marks. The lights looked very much like stars, but brighter than Sirius (Which, coincidentally, is called the Dog star).
I stopped to point them out, and as we watched they slowly dimmed out and disappeared entirely. The lights never changed position. From when we noticed them until we couldn't see them anymore maybe 15-20 seconds elapsed.
Keep in mind, we’re not too far from a military airfield and a major international airport, so we're pretty used to seeing aircraft of all sorts with their landing lights on, playing tag, dumping solid waste tanks, engines aflame etc. This was different. Too different.
Sure, if a plane has its landing lights on and is headed right at you it looks vaguely similar--but eventually you see movement or the angle changes and you see the strobe or wing lights. These just faded out to nothing, and we didn't see or hear anything else in that area of the sky. Plus the lights were far enough apart we don't think they were part of a single object.
Anyone else see this? I’ve requested info from the college and local news stations. Meanwhile, I’m sleeping on my back so if I wake up with short green folks in my room later they won’t be able to probe me so easy…
Where’s Jack Horkheimer when you really need him?
Last night 2/9/05 at about 7:00 Anne and I were out for our nightly dog walk and we saw two unusually bright stars to the Southeast--just above the Canis Major constellation. I marked their positions for you on this handy star map with green "X" marks. The lights looked very much like stars, but brighter than Sirius (Which, coincidentally, is called the Dog star).
I stopped to point them out, and as we watched they slowly dimmed out and disappeared entirely. The lights never changed position. From when we noticed them until we couldn't see them anymore maybe 15-20 seconds elapsed.
Keep in mind, we’re not too far from a military airfield and a major international airport, so we're pretty used to seeing aircraft of all sorts with their landing lights on, playing tag, dumping solid waste tanks, engines aflame etc. This was different. Too different.
Sure, if a plane has its landing lights on and is headed right at you it looks vaguely similar--but eventually you see movement or the angle changes and you see the strobe or wing lights. These just faded out to nothing, and we didn't see or hear anything else in that area of the sky. Plus the lights were far enough apart we don't think they were part of a single object.
Anyone else see this? I’ve requested info from the college and local news stations. Meanwhile, I’m sleeping on my back so if I wake up with short green folks in my room later they won’t be able to probe me so easy…
Where’s Jack Horkheimer when you really need him?
