Occurred: 2008-01-26 19:00 Local
Reported: 2008-01-26 21:11 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Charlotte, NC, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

5 bright flashing lights hovering horizontally in Charlotte NC sky at night

My husband, 7 year old son and I were driving on I 77 Northbound towards I 85 around 7 pm (dark) and saw a bright light in the dark sky, slightly larger than a close by helicopter would be. It was stationary so we thought it WAS a police helicopter. Then it dawned on us that our police dept most likely doesn’t own that many helicopters! They had flashing lights but were not flashing lights on the ground like police helicopters do when they are looking for someone etc. They just hovered ther and were very bright.

As we merged onto I85 we saw 2 then 3, then 4 more similar objects/lights in the distance all what appeared to be exactly the same distance away from one another. We live in the city, at the end of a street near a hospital ,with helicopters landing and taking off many times of the day and night, so we know what they look and sound like day and night. We are also very familiar with the airports traffic patterns and what several airplanes coming in towards the airport on the horizon look like. This was not like that. These objects hovered like helicopters had flashing lights of red gold and white all at the same altitude over the distance of about 10 miles altogether.

As we drove down the road, (about 8-10 miles or so, we saw all of the lights remain where they were, but began to notice in between them were VERY small objects (tiny red lights) that travelled at very high speeds between the brighter larger main objects. We stopped the car and witnessed several of these small objects travelling very fast in different directions. Our son became worried because we were shocked and very interested to the point that we stopped the car, so we continued on to the grocery store and went inside.



Posted 2008-02-14

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