NUFORC Sighting 70861

Occurred: 2009-07-04 20:35 Local
Reported: 2009-07-04 21:08 Pacific
Duration: 16 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: El Cajon, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Four red lights travelling east out of San Diego south of El Cajon.

At 2035 7.4.09 I observed four red luminous single red lights moving in an easterly trajectory out of San Diego. The four lights were well spaced apart, the second and third running an almost parallel course. Although red, they were luminous like Venus. The moon was in the sky, full and in the SE sky. The four lights passed almost directly overhead, never flickering. The flightpath to nearby Gillespie Field received two incoming light planes in that time that the lights were observed. The eastern flight path out of Lindberg Field San Diego is further south. The lights appeared to gain a vertical altitude upon reaching a point south of the city of El Cajon. The continued slowly tracking east, maintaining the same luminosity. Further to the east 4th of July fireworks began but were in the sky at a much lower altitude to the light.

Observer1: Former police officer, accident investigator, regularly transcontinental flight customer.

Observor2: government contractor, complete basic flying course (unaccreddited) Photographs taken in the evening sky, difficult to record three of the lights without foreground.

Posted 2009-08-05

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