NUFORC Sighting 173611

Occurred: 2022-05-01 15:06 Local
Reported: 2022-12-28 10:35 Pacific
Duration: < 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pasadena, CA, USA
Location details: Viewed from residential home

Shape: Light


Video of zigzagging light during the day.

At around 3:00pm, I walked outside to take my dog on a walk when I spotted 3 star-like objects over the San Gabriel Mountains moving slowly but something about their movement caught my attention. I had seen similar stationary light sightings frequently during the months leading up, but since these were moving I immediately called for my dad to come outside and observe them as well. By the time he came out and I started to record on my iPhone, there were two lights left. One seemed to hide behind some clouds over the mountains but the last light kept traveling into the clear sky so I decided to record it. I expected it to drift like a balloon, but once I began recording it started zigzagging as if to evade my eyesight. I had on sunglasses which made it hard to see anything on my phone due to the lighting. It was a bright sunny day and my phone screen had a glare under its shadow as I was pointing it directly up over the roof of my house. So I was mostly looking at the light in the sky and only taking occasional glances at my phone screen. I move my phone in an attempt to mimic the movements of the light so as to keep it on the recording screen. The light appears to accelerate and stop suddenly at sharp angles before "disappearing." The moment it disappears, I was actually looking at it in the sky, not my phone screen, but coincidentally, my phone goes out of focus at the same time. When it focuses again, the light reappears, however I had already lost sight of it which is why I stopped recording. Basically, it tricked me into thinking it had vanished or taken off.



Posted 2023-03-06

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