NUFORC Sighting 72901

Occurred: 2009-10-01 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-10-18 12:52 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Fairfield, CT, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

2 seperate observations. Fairfield, CT

I figure I would submit my observations, though it has been a few weeks since the events had accrued. I guess the events took place around the 1st of October. I smoke cigarettes out side my home and observe the night sky every night. I live around NYC region and see many planes travel over my home, and so I would consider my self capable of identifying a plane easily in the night sky.

My first observation. I saw a bright light breaking through the tree line on a clear night, at a height I observe many planes around 11PM. At first I figured it was a plane coming at me in a direct line, and I was observing a line of sight to its head lights, although it was brighter than most planes, so I decided to observe it longer than I typically would for other night sky lights. The path the light was traveling was coming at me and it did travel directly over my house and off into the southern tree line. What I would typically see when a plane travels in this fashion would be. First the head lights when it is traveling towards me. 2nd the underbelly lights as it traveled above me. 3rd the head lights would dim and fade to black as it passed away from me, and I would observe the tail lights and the underbelly lights.

Well this light didn't follow those rules and it sutatined its single point of light through it entire traverse of the night sky and maintained its lluminosity. It did appear to be low in the sky although I can't declare how far that would be. It made no noise. After it passed beyond my ability to see it, I noticed that there were many planes in the night sky, more than usual, and their paths didn't follow what is typically the flying paths for airliners and personal aircraft comiing in and out of the airports around my area. Made me think that I wasn't the only person to observe this event.

A few days later, it was over cast but it wasn't raining. I was observing the moon light breaking through the cloud cover and it resembled the NASA Black Brant XII cloud dispersal I viewed on Youtube. I watched the moon light break through the clouds for awhile as it sustained the appearance of the Rocket launch for awhile. I have to mention that I felt that something was going to happen, it was odd, and it made me uncomfortable.

I looked into the northern sky and observed a light break the tree line, it was followed by 2 other lights. They appear to hold the points of a triangle and were traveling to the south. When I declared to my self that this was not something that I had ever observed before, the 3 lights broke formation and the leading light changed direction towards the west and the other 2 lights followed, but didn't take the paths of what I would say are typical of things I have seen in the night sky (radical and some what random change of direction.) It was a short event and lost sight of them in the western tree line.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD

Posted 2009-12-12