NUFORC Sighting 71273

Occurred: 2009-07-21 12:30 Local
Reported: 2009-07-24 15:26 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Odd pulsing lights west of Chicago

Early Tuesday morning my friends and I noticed two air planes with pulsing lights about 45 degrees north of the southern horizon, heading west. A few moments later I noticed they had stopped moving. At first I thought they had just moved past the horizon. Considering the speed and distance to the trees below I quickly ruled that out. When I got up to make sure it wasn't an asteroid or space junk they started up again. They moved independently of each other and a third (dimmer or farther) light appeared. With in a few more seconds one quickly headed south and out of sight and the other two continued in strange little "loops" speeding up before entering behind some clouds.

I am an amateur astronomer and I am pretty sure it wasn't anything burning up in our atmosphere or Jupiter or Saturn. They moved just a little too awkwardly to be planes.

Not sure what it was, just thought I would post it here in case anyone else saw it.

Posted 2009-08-05

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