NUFORC Sighting 34278

Occurred: 2003-10-18 21:00 Local
Reported: 2004-01-03 17:44 Pacific
Duration: 1 our
No of observers: 4

Location: Schenectady, NY, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object

Cloud dwelling lights in the sky

My father was the first to notice them, he called me out to my front lawn. In the sky were to different lights moving around in the sky. The odd things were that they only appeared in the clouds, not in the sky, and they changed direction. After about twenty minutes another one joined them. My mother and two brothers came out to see them. All three were spining in an oval, and would disapear once they left from the clouds into the sky, then they would reapear once they entered there part of orbit that was in the sky. About twenty minutes later a fourth one joined them. Thats when there orbit changed. It spined counterclockwise in a circle, and after completing a few rotations the lights would cross and end up on then continue spinning. Then as the clouds floated away, we lost visual of them. I called the airport to see if they new anything about it, and they didn't. I took a picture of them when there were four, I could only see two of them in the picture, then I enhanced it, and I counted seventeen. This whole occurance lasted about an hour

NUFORC Note:

We suspect the witnesses may have been observing a spinning advertising light. PD

Posted 2004-01-17