NUFORC Sighting 135762

Occurred: 2012-01-22 01:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2017-08-17 13:05 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Merced, CA, USA

Shape: Flash


Strobe white light that responds to flashlight signal.

This report is in response to 8/10/17 in LA Rue, Ohio. I work a grave yard shift for a University. During slow times of an evening, I am able to take short walks or just step outside for fresh air. I will find a spot where most of the light pollution is at its minimum. The exact date is not written down when I first saw the white bright single light strobe in the clear sky. When I saw it I thought it I might have had an optical problem from being tired or a twinkle from a distant star.

Continuing my stellular gaze, I definitely saw the distinct single bright strobe. Knowing that this was not something normal. Too close for a distant star and no other lights to not be an airplane. I flashed my powerful LED flashlight at area. The response was an immediate strobe of light back. WOW. What was that. I responded again. An immediate pulse of light back again. I walked to darker area to try and see what was the source. I flashed my light again. Another response. I could not see what was the light was coming from. I went three flights of stairs up to the roof where our cooling towers are and the darkest spot I knew of when the lights were off. I flashed my light in the general area and was immediately signal back. This went on for 20 more minutes. I was dumbfounded to what was happening. I had to leave and resume my normal operations. I had a very hard time trying to understand what had just happened and to this day still cannot! This has gone on and off all this time until 3 months ago.

I went on vacation for three weeks, and when I came back, the phenome has just stopped. There is so much more to the story. I had recruited other individuals to witness the strobe. They were able to verify that I had not completely gone mad by also witnessing the light. What or who is actually in the night sky is an exciting mystery. I wish I knew the source of that light some day.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. PD


Posted 2017-08-17

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