NUFORC Sighting 05608

Occurred: 1999-02-20 20:20 Local
Reported: 1999-02-20 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Jose, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown


The overcast north-eastern sky was flashing like a strobe light, lighting up the entire horizon.

This is not a report of a craft sighting, rather, it is a report of an unusual event seen in the sky. The event was witnessed from San Jose, California, just north of the Almaden Valley. It was exactly 8:20 pm, Pacific time, on Saturday, February 20, 1999. The sky was overcast. I was inside the office in my house, and I happened to glance out the office window, which faces due East. In the nort-eastern sky, I noticed that the entire sky was flashing quickly and regularly, like a strobe light, only slower. The flashes were bright enough to have been lightening, but I doubt they were, because they were too frequent, and too regular in frequency. I would estimate the frequency of the flashes to be around 4-5 flashes per second, evenly spaced in time. The entire duration of my sighting was approximately 10 seconds. The entire portion of the sky that I could see was lighting up, but it definitely appeared as though the source of the flashing lights was in the north-eastern sky, which happens to be the approximate direction of the Mount Hamilton observatory (I think that's the name of it -- during the day, the telescope is visible on the mountain top). Just for reference, the San Jose airport is north-west of my house, and would have been roughly at my back at the time of this incident.

Posted 1999-04-02

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