NUFORC Sighting 129142

Occurred: 2011-09-27 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2016-08-10 13:06 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Ventura, CA, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Large formation flight groups

The following is a copy of an old email I originally sent to the Southern California chapter of MUFON on 10/17/11.

To the best of my recollection the event lasted about 20 minutes for the formation to go across the approximately half of the sky from North to South. My line of sight was from Ventura to the direction of Palmdale, California, generally starting along direction above State Highway 126 and generally along direction of I-5. There are some tall mountains in that direction so I assume the formation was closer to Ventura, perhaps above Santa Paula or Fillmore. I estimate height probably at 25 deg.

Email as follows: I visited your site for the first time to see if I could find any relevant info to an experience my girlfriend and I had. I saw that you had sightings for August but nothing for September. [MUFON] My main interest is to see if anyone reported several waves of lights in the sky on or about September 27, last month. Unfortunately I am not sure of the date.

I was mostly fascinated by what we saw but didn't think of noting times or recording any events but this is what transpired: We live in Ventura, California. It was between 830 - 930 in the evening when we saw a brighter than average light in the sky which initially caught our attention. We stepped outside to get a better view. At that time we began to see in the eastern sky, groups of perhaps five craft each heading southbound. There closely followed another 6 or 7 groupings for approximately 35-40 craft total? They could have been airplanes, but I have never seen so many at once. My vision is not the best but the lights were basically white and some of the craft appeared to be flashing a reddish glow, sort of a twinkle. They were travelling relatively slowly but something about them didn't quite make me think they were airplanes.

I mentioned the incident to my neighbor and he said other people reported the event (newspaper?). I looked online but didn't find any mention.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2016-08-16

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