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Okay, please understand that I am not saying this is an alien spacecraft sighting or anything of the sort...the truth is I have no idea what this is. I look at the sky at night a lot...I love the stars, but I have never seen anything like this. I just hope that maybe someone here can help give me an idea of what this may be.
I was driving home from my girlfriend's house a couple hours ago. It was dark out (around 10:15 pm), and only a few stars could be seen because it was quite cloudy. However, there was this one light that was up with the other stars, but it seemed much too bright and much too large to be a star. Normally one would assume this is just a really huge star or a close planet, but it even seemed too large to be something like that. While driving, I noticed that this object was actually very close, and was either near, or within, our atmosphere; this is because its position relative to the other stars during my movement in my vehicle did not stay the same...which means that the object is significantly closer than the stars.
I stopped my vehicle to continue watching this strange anomaly...and I noticed it was actually moving, very slowly...much slower than you would see a plane normally move. Additionally, the light had inconsistent patterns...its brightness would fade in and out (not consistently like a plane's light), and at some points it would fade out completely and then show up again a few seconds later. One may presume that this is the result of the object moving behind clouds, but the other few stars nearby, significantly smaller in relative size, stayed consistently bright, and I did not visually see it pass behind any clouds.
Then, the weird part occurred. After watching the object for about a minute, suddenly there was a large flash of light in the sky...a very large portion of the sky lit up very brightly, and then an object of light, larger than the light in the sky, shot down at an incredible velocity, vertically downward, which only appeared in the sky for about a half second or second. I'm not sure if it touched the ground; it happened very fast...and if it didn't stay lit up all the way to the ground, it was darn close.
I have provided a picture below of what I saw. I apologize for the crappy drawing, I suck at drawing, and I drew it speedily because I just wanted to draw what I saw right away. The oddly shaped things in the sky are clouds, the dot is the object of light in the sky, and the thing in the middle is the object of light which was shot vertically down, moving really fast. Please note that the object of light which is shot downward (yes, it had a tale-looking thing at the end) was significantly larger than the object from which it came, possibly even larger relatively than what I have drawn in the picture.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e127/ ... esized.jpg[/IMG]
Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? I had nothing to drink, and as far as I know, I'm not crazy. Also, please note that this is the second time I have seen this object in one week around the same time (give or take an hour...not sure on the time of the previous sighting)...except, the previous time I saw it, it didn't shoot something downward. It just caught my attention by its brightness, size, and movement.
I was driving home from my girlfriend's house a couple hours ago. It was dark out (around 10:15 pm), and only a few stars could be seen because it was quite cloudy. However, there was this one light that was up with the other stars, but it seemed much too bright and much too large to be a star. Normally one would assume this is just a really huge star or a close planet, but it even seemed too large to be something like that. While driving, I noticed that this object was actually very close, and was either near, or within, our atmosphere; this is because its position relative to the other stars during my movement in my vehicle did not stay the same...which means that the object is significantly closer than the stars.
I stopped my vehicle to continue watching this strange anomaly...and I noticed it was actually moving, very slowly...much slower than you would see a plane normally move. Additionally, the light had inconsistent patterns...its brightness would fade in and out (not consistently like a plane's light), and at some points it would fade out completely and then show up again a few seconds later. One may presume that this is the result of the object moving behind clouds, but the other few stars nearby, significantly smaller in relative size, stayed consistently bright, and I did not visually see it pass behind any clouds.
Then, the weird part occurred. After watching the object for about a minute, suddenly there was a large flash of light in the sky...a very large portion of the sky lit up very brightly, and then an object of light, larger than the light in the sky, shot down at an incredible velocity, vertically downward, which only appeared in the sky for about a half second or second. I'm not sure if it touched the ground; it happened very fast...and if it didn't stay lit up all the way to the ground, it was darn close.
I have provided a picture below of what I saw. I apologize for the crappy drawing, I suck at drawing, and I drew it speedily because I just wanted to draw what I saw right away. The oddly shaped things in the sky are clouds, the dot is the object of light in the sky, and the thing in the middle is the object of light which was shot vertically down, moving really fast. Please note that the object of light which is shot downward (yes, it had a tale-looking thing at the end) was significantly larger than the object from which it came, possibly even larger relatively than what I have drawn in the picture.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e127/ ... esized.jpg[/IMG]
Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? I had nothing to drink, and as far as I know, I'm not crazy. Also, please note that this is the second time I have seen this object in one week around the same time (give or take an hour...not sure on the time of the previous sighting)...except, the previous time I saw it, it didn't shoot something downward. It just caught my attention by its brightness, size, and movement.