NUFORC Sighting 30558

Occurred: 2003-08-01 01:15 Local
Reported: 2003-08-07 00:05 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Wilmington, CA, USA

Shape: Diamond
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright golden light in the eastern night sky over Wilmington, CA

This sighting came the next night after my previous report. My old dog who has a weak bladder woke me up and wanted to go out side to urinate. I went outside in the back yard with the dog. I looked into the eastern sky and saw the same golden light I had seen the night before in the southeast. It seemed to go up or come toward me. I then went into my house to get my glasses as I am slightly nearsighted. I wanted to see if I could get rid of the "flare"/twinkle of the light and perhaps get a better look. The "object" was still there (and still twinkled" with my glasses on, but to a lesser extent) and then moved up and to the left in the sky. Then it dimmed out as if a gas or "jet burner" had went out. It was about 2 or so times the brightest object in the sky, which was Mars. I had not planned to report this again until an experience tonight. I walked to the Post Office to drop a letter off. A man was in an empty parking lot with a Meade "Telescope". He was charging $2.00 to look at the moon. I paid him and had a look at the cratered moon. I then asked him if he had ever saw anything unusual like a ufo. He said that he never had. But a man who was standing there and had looked before me, said that he had. He then confirmed what I had saw in the night sky over Wilmington. That is what prompted me to write again. Also I am wondering at the odds of me waking up in the middle of the night by my dog on 2 straight nights, and seeing these lights which quickly disapeared? I have looked every night since when I go out with the dog, but have seen nothing.



NUFORC Note:

We suspect the bright light in the southeast sky may have been the planet, Mars, but Mars should not move suddenly. That part of the sighting may have been a perceptual issue. PD


Posted 2003-08-28

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