NUFORC Sighting 167390

Occurred: 2022-04-04 06:30 Local
Reported: 2022-04-07 12:14 Pacific
Duration: approx 15 minutes.
No of observers: 3

Location: The Villages, FL, USA
Location details: Looking toward Venus, Aprox 2:00 position, about 2-3 inches away.

Shape: Circle

We see Venus recently every morning but for two mornings there were 2 non-moving lights, slightly above and to the right of Venus.

My wife and I were going for our morning walk, about 6:20-6:30am on April 4, 2022. As we leave the house, we routinely joke about looking at Venus to make sure we’re going in the right direction. On this morning, we looked at Venus and noticed two smaller lights to the right, and slightly above Venus. Holding your fingers in a pinching position, with your thumb covering Venus and your forefinger covering the unknown lights, your fingers were about two inches apart, or a 2-inch distance from Venus. The two small round lights, smaller and not nearly as bright as Venus, were on a level horizontal plain, each light about 1/2 inch apart. The light on the left was white and the light on the right was more of an ivory color. They didn't appear to move for the length of time they were being observed, which was approximately 10 minutes. At that time in the morning, no other stars were visible in the immediate area. As the sky became lighter with the rising sun, they didn’t suddenly disappear but slowly became impossible to see due to the light pollution. Because Venus was so much brighter, it was still visable.
The next morning, (April 5, 2022) about the same time, we looked for these lights. The lights were still there but this time they were no longer parallel to the horizon but in a more vertical position. The lights appeared to be the same distance from Venus, and the same distance apart, but this time one light was in the 6 o’clock position and the other in the 10 o’clock position. They remained motionless. As the morning became lighter, the light pollution, made them impossible to continue to see.
The third morning (April 6, 2022) same time and place, the lights were no longer there and have not been seen since.

Today, Apr 07, as I viewed and expanded the picture #1 on my iPhone, I noticed two very blurred lighted areas in the 2 O’clock position from the original 2 unknown lights previously mentioned. They’re indicated in the attached diagram. They also appear to be 2 round objects, one considerably larger than the other but both were very blurred, with a hazy area around both.

Posted 2022-04-22