NUFORC Sighting 60503

Occurred: 2007-12-24 20:15 Local
Reported: 2007-12-26 08:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 mintues
No of observers: 4

Location: Longmont, CO, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Two very bright sparkling objects seen while driving; one disapeared while the other one moved off slowly out of sight.

On the Dec 24, 2007, I was sitting in the back of our van traveling east on Hwy 66 out of Longmont, Colorado a few miles before I-25. Out the front window I noticed from the back seat a very bright light just to the left side of the road about 1 mile ahead of us. I said to my wife as she was driving, "What is that bright light out of your window at your 11:00 O’clock position?"

She said that she did not know. My mother was sitting in the front passenger’s seat. She said that she did not know either, but that there was another light just like it ahead on the right about 2 miles.

Because I was sitting in the back right hand side I did not notice that one at first because I could not see through my mother’s head. I repositioned myself and looked out the front to the right and noticed that object as well. My son was sitting next to me in the back seat and saw the two objects also.

The objects were very bright and sparkled like the finest diamond with a thousand bursts of colorful flares inside them. The closer we got to the one on the left hand side of the car, the further down I had to get my head to the floor so that I could see it.

After a few moments I could not see it anymore and so I asked my son if he could see it out of his side window. He said it was gone.

I asked my wife where the bright light on her side of the van was. She also said it was gone. There was quite a bit of traffic on the road moving with us and coming toward us, so she was mostly paying attention to the road, like a good driver.

My mother said that the light on the right side 2 miles ahead was moving away from us. I stooped down and looked at it as it slowly disappeared to the east.

I kept looking into the sky on the rest of our journey home, which took about 25 more minutes after that, hoping to get another look at what I had just seen. I saw many lights; they were all just small planes having the small red flashing light on them, dim compared to the two we had just witnessed.

It was a full moon, partly cloudy, crystal clear stars above, snow on the ground (which reflected a lot of moonlight around to make it seem no so dark that night), and it was about 20 degrees F.

Posted 2008-03-04