NUFORC Sighting 155123

Occurred: 2020-04-15 05:26 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-04-15 09:25 Pacific
Duration:

Location: Seaside, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object

15 or more bright white equal spaced objects traversing NNW to SSE in dark, clear sky.

I got up to go walk off a leg cramp and looked out a west facing window to check the weather and visibility which was totally clear. My phone showed 5:26 am and 53 deg f. Quite a few stars were visible. I then noticed one very bright star disappearing past the south jamb of the window which started me. I then saw another identical star moving in the same direction and then a line of maybe ten or twelve more equally spaced, equally bright objects coming one after another from approximately NNW to SSE. I was too bewildered to count or time them accurately. They finally all passed out of view to the SSE. I then went to an east facing window and all I could see was the very bright waning half moon and a couple of stable dim stars. I went back to the west facing window and saw another string of identical lights moving in the same direction. Then my wife came out to see where I was and I pointed out the objects to her. To my great relief she also saw them (I thought maybe the covid had quietly snuck up an scrambled my brains). We watched a few more disappear beyond the window then went back to bed @ 5:39 am, extremely perplexed. I don’t know if we saw the beginning or end of the event.

When I got up later I checked my reasonably accurate iPhone compass an estimate the line of flight was originating somewhere between NW (315 d) and NNW (330 d). There was no variation in direction. The Monterey Regional Airport (MRY) terminal is almost exactly 1 mile slightly east of due south of the viewing point and the pacific coastline is about 0.8 miles NW. I wonder if their radar detected anything? We could not estimate the height of the objects, but if they were airline height they were moving extremely fast. We could hear no sound but the house is insulated stucco construction with double pane glazing and plane take offs from the airport are fairly faint if the widows are closed.

No shape was distinguishable, only a bright unvarying white light.

When l googled the basic information the only close hit was a similar sighting (on your website) in Roseville, CA on 02/09/2020 @ 5:30 am. The Roseville post office is 152 miles a little east of north from here, not on the same flight line observed.

I am 76 years old, of reasonably good mental condition. I worked in various aspects of the engineering business for 55 years. I am extremely skeptical generally and especially concerning the possibility of extraterrestrial visitations to earth. I have spent a great deal of my life s from childhood on observing the night sky both sober and otherwise including many meteor showers. This is the first time I have encountered anything similar to this. I would attribute it to military maneuvers of some sort but they probably would not be so noticeably bright. Sunrise here today was 6:33 am and astronomical twilight was 5:01 to 5:34 am so it was possible a convoy of planes illuminated by the sun far over the horizon in a very dark sky. Seems unlikely to me.

Posted 2020-05-01