| Sighting Report |
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| Occurred : 4/23/2004 21:20 (Entered as : 04/23/2004 21:20) Reported: 4/24/2004 7:04:48 PM 19:04 Posted: 4/27/2004 Location: Santa Cruz, CA Shape: Unknown Duration:under 10 seconds |
| A pair of orange lights rapidly crossed tha Santa Cruz sky. While outside my home observing the positions of the planets Saturn, Mars, and Venus, I saw a pair of lights moving together across the sky in a South-to-North direction. The lights moved at a high speed, crossing from horizon to horizon in an estimated 6 seconds, straight and close to the zenith, many times faster than any aircraft or satellite that I have observed. The lights maintained their position relative to each other, but I couldn't see whether they were part of the same craft. One light was behind and to the left of the other; if one imagines a triangle moving point-first with lights on the leading point and on the leftmost point behind, with no light on the right, then one can get an idea of what I saw. The lights had an orange color similar to that of a sodium street lamp. The sky was slightly hazy, and the haze appeared to be at a very high altitude, since a commercial jet observed a moment later appeared very clearly. The lights of the unidentified object, on the other hand, looked as if they were above the haze. No sound could be heard, though I listened for a long time (since the sound of fast-moving aircraft can seem to lag behind the image). The apparent altitude and speed of the object were such that I stood agape for a few moments. This is the only time I have seen something in the sky that I could not identify. |