Occurred: 2012-08-10 21:50 Local
Reported: 2012-08-11 20:43 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 min
No of observers: 3

Location: San Jose, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

2 orange lights moving in the sky non typically in San Jose CA

9:50 PM Aug 10th, Friday night in San Jose CA, intersection of Camden Ave and Crystal Springs, my daughter and her friend (They are 13) and I (I am 43) were taking a walk around the block like I’ve done many times before. The sky was very clear, as we walked up Crystal Springs away from Camden Ave about ½ way up the street I looked up to the left ( about 60-70% up in height in the sky) and there were 2 orange, what looked like bright stars, amongst the stars. These stood out because they were about 2-3X the size of others and were bright orange amongst all the other white stars. I pointed them out to the two girls with me and we watched them for about 5-10 min. At first they were stationary, then one started to move down and at an angle. After moving a distance, in terms of the size of the light, about 20-30 times it size down, it turned at a sharp right angle and traveled about 10-20 times it’s size to the right and stopped. Then it started up toward the ! other to a point that I thought it was going to go right into the other, then about 2-3 times it size away from the other, it stopped. From there in descended again, this time its light starting to flicker and reduce in its brilliance, several times it almost went out but then lit up again, all the while it was descending, then it faded one last time and was gone. The other remained there and then it too descended and flickered and then at last it was gone entirely. All 3 of us were watching the whole time and the kids were asking me what I thought it was, all I could say was that it was not an airplane, not a satellite, not a star, I’d never seen anything that color in the sky move in those directions and then disappear, so I said it must be a UFO.

When we retuned to the house, I sat in my back yard hoping to see something else looking up in the sky. While I did not see any more orange lights moving about, at 10:10PM my entire peripheral vision saw what looked like a meteorite streak across the sky with its tail in full view the entire time even after passing for a moment, it was lower than any shooting star I’ve ever seen, I would have thought it was the height of a high flying airplane. In the morning I looked hoping to see something in the local news paper but here was nothing so I Googled “strange lights in the sky” and saw clip after clip about just such orange lights. Then I Googled “Strange lights in the sky last night” and did see a post about someone in another state and possibly another county on the same Friday night, same time frame, seeing the same thing. Looking up now more often than even before….

Posted 2012-08-19

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