NUFORC Sighting 97128

Occurred: 2013-04-11 08:50 Local
Reported: 2013-04-12 19:35 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Torrance, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 to 5 orange lights hovering in night sky and then slowly rising and moving into clouds in a cyclic pattern

I was riding my bike home from tennis and stopped by Taco Bell to get something to eat at about 8.45 in the evening on April 11th 2013 in South Torrance, CA. As I was leaving Taco Bell on my bike I noticed an orange object hovering in the sky to the south at about an angle of 45 degrees to me. It seemed fairly close, and I would guess within a mile. It was hovering over the hills just south of Pacific Coast Highway.. It was unusual I thought so I stopped riding my bike and began to watch it. It stayed stationary for approximately a minute when it began to move slowly upwards into the sky which was slightly cloudy. It got fainter as it got higher into the clouds until it was about to disappear. During this rise I noticed a what I thought at the time was a plane flying low into view in the same general area off to the right. As it got closer I realized it had the same coloration of the previous object. An orange perhaps slightly red color. it proce! eded to the same spot in the sky that the previous object had hovered and stayed there for perhaps a minute or so. There were no blinking lights on either of these objects, just an orange color the shape of which I couldn't make out. (I didn't have any glasses on which would have helped me to see them more clearly) This second object too began to rise higher into the sky and about this time 2 more object flew into view to the lower right and proceed to the same spot in which the first two had hovered, and they too hovered in that spot for several minutes, both slowly moving while hovering. These eventually disappeared also. And I proceeded the remaining half mile to my apartments down the street. I looked back before heading in, and saw another orange light of the same type in the same general area and watched it for about 5 minutes. A person walked by as I was watching and asked me if I saw it too, and I said I did.

I can only speculate on what I saw, but it is very intriguing and I hope to get more information on this sighting. I at first thought it could be a hot air balloon, but then when it moved upwards into the clouds and others flew into the area I ruled this out. The other normal explanation I have thought of is that perhaps they were a group of people flying helicopters in a cyclic pattern for some unknown reason (Perhaps to simulate a UFO event). I didn't see any red or green blinking lights in the objects, and I am not sure if I saw any white lights. It was predominantly orange. I do not remember hearing any noise coming from that direction, though I am not sure if I would have been close enough or not to hear any if they were helicopters. When I got back to the hot tub at the apartment right after the sightings, I asked if any one else had seen them an one man in the hot tub said he had seen an orange object in the sky about 10 minutes earlier. The whole sighting ! laster perhaps 15 minutes. There were at least 3 objects involved in this sighting and as many as 5. I saw 3 at one time after the first disappeared, and the fifth 5 minutes later.

Posted 2013-05-15