NUFORC Sighting 130094

Occurred: 2008-01-01 01:45 Local
Reported: 2016-09-21 00:37 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: San Diego, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

New Years Amber light formation San Diego.

It was early New Years morning and I fell asleep around 10pm on New Year's Eve I was home alone my wife was working at la Jolla shores bath and tennis club.

She called and woke me up around 01:15 New Years morning and asked to be picked up in 30 minutes. I walked out of my apartment at 2636 grand avenue in San Diego. I walked down the walkway to my car parked on the north side of the building. On my way to the car I looked up and noticed several Amber lights moving slowly over the la Jolla hills to the north. I thought it strange, but San Diego being a big military city I figured that it was helicopters or some military aircraft. I got in my jeep with the top down and headed north on the I 5 from pacific beach and noticed the lights again as I approached the la Jolla parkway exit and noticed there were 7 or 8 Amber lights at what seemed like an altitude of about 1000 feet above the hill moving extremely slowly from east to west in a sloppy triangle formation! with the rear light occasionally leapfrogging to the front of the formation. It seemed the lights were slightly ahead of me as I proceeded onto la Jolla parkway towards the north west and when I got to the top of the hill and stopped at the traffic light at the intersection of la Jolla parkway and la Jolla shores drive the lights appeared to stay stationary directly above me at an estimated altitude of 1000-2000 feet. I did not hear any noise other than traffic whatsoever. At this point I concluded if they were helicopters I would surely be hearing them. I turned north on la Jolla shores drive and proceeded Approximately 1/2 mile to the bath and tennis club and my wife was waiting curbside and got in the jeep. I turned around to a south heading and told my wife about the lights and pointed them out to her. She thought them strange as well. At that time they seemed about 1/2 mile to the west and picking up steady speed. By the time I got back to the traffic light 1/2 mile! south at la Jolla shores drive and la Jolla parkway the light! s seemed at least 5 miles out to sea already and continuing west/northwest. I turned to head east and lost sight of the lights by the time I reached my apartment again about 4-5 minutes later I could not find the lights again

Posted 2016-09-22

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