NUFORC Sighting 20602

Occurred: 2001-11-28 22:30 Local
Reported: 2001-11-29 09:43 Pacific
Duration: 20 Minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Lakewood, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

Single red light hovering for 20 minutes below the cloud cover.

Lakewood, CA, USA (N33.8xx W118.1xx Elv:14m) At about 2230, my wife and I went to our front porch to smoke a cigarette. We immediately noticed to our North at about 25-30 degrees above the horizon, a stationary red light hovering below the cloud cover. After about 5 minutes of no movement by the object, I called 911 and attempted to report what we saw. The 911 operator told me they had multiple calls about the object and they did not know what it was. I then called my son from inside the house and he also observed the object. During the course of events, the object began to randomly pulse, sometime disappearing completely, then returning. At times, it appeared to be emitting and/or absorbing what looked like white static electric discharges, but that may have been an optical illusion on my part. There were commercial aircraft in the LAX landing pattern farther north of the object, that may have seen it at around 2250. During the 20-minute observation from my POV, the object's only movement was to "drift" from west to ease by about 4-6 degrees and gain some altitude. The object continued to pulse until it seemed to drift out of sight up into the clouds or departed at about 2254. We called a friend in Garden Grove, located about 6 miles SSW of our location, but they could not see the object. We had no camera to record the event, but there should be multiple reports logged with the L.A. County Sheriff's 911 dispatch between 2230 and 2254. This is the 4th "red light" event I have seen in my 43 years and I have no idea if this is terrestrial (DOD?) technology or E.T.

Posted 2001-12-05