NUFORC Sighting 33190

Occurred: 2003-11-15 00:20 Local
Reported: 2003-11-17 11:57 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Twenty Nine Palms, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Lights on object

Fast moving vehicle with no sound.

It was a friday night boy scout campout. The scouts were all asleep by 11:30pm but I stayed up to enjoying the smog free sky (200 miles east of LA).

At 20 min after midnight I noticed a group of red and white lights, locked together, zooming across the sky at what seemed to be airliner cruise altitude, from east to west.

They seemed to be about twice as wide as the jet's light formations. There was one red light in the middle of the group of white lights denoting a diamond or trianlular pattern. These were much, much brighter lights than those of the jets. The red light did not seem to blink, only 'flutter'.

They seemed to be running at the same trajactories all the east-west airliners were traveling along.

No sound from anything in the sky that night, including the lights in question.

Too late in the night and too fast to be satellites.

The thing that stood out was that these crossed the sky in 30 seconds.** All the other jets took 3 minutes. Thats 6 times faster than the jets: which means that the craft was moving at 6*.85Mach = ~Mach 5 if it was at cruise altitude -OR- If it was closer to the ground the speed may be closer to Mach 1 but I should have heard it either through engine noise or sonic boom.

Posted 2003-11-26