bugen4 Wrote:
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> Last night (Dec. 23, 2011) my wife and I were
> driving down Braddock Rd west from the 495 on-ramp
> at around a few minutes before midnight. Just
> after passing Burke Lake Rd, I happened to casualy
> look up in the sky to my left and saw several
> red-orange orbs hovering in the sky.
>
> At first, I didn't think anything of it, brushing
> it off as planes, but I kept looking again and it
> seemed like these lights were NOT planes. I told
> my wife to look to her left at the sky and she saw
> them too, not knowing what they were.
>
> I pulled into a little neighborhood so we could
> stop and see what they were. They were about 6 or
> 7 lights, arranged in a somewhat triangular shape
> flying very, very slowly from the west to the
> east. Then a single glowing orb appeared behind
> the original group and followed, again very
> slowly.
>
> I can tell you that these were not planes of ANY
> kind. Every plane known to exist on this planet
> has the taxi lights or wingtip stobes to avoid air
> collision. No matter how far up a plane is flying,
> you should be able to see these blinking lights.
>
> These orbs did not blink or have blinking lights
> on them. Also, the size of these orbs were huge to
> suggest that they were pretty low to the ground.
>
> Another car pulled into the neighborhood and I
> noticed the driver looking up at the sky at those
> orbs with a confused/curious look on his face as
> well. Then a man from that neighborhood was
> outside walking and came up to my wife and I
> because he noticed them too and wanted to verify
> that he was not the only one who was witnessing
> this phenomenon.
>
> The lights lasted for a few minutes before they
> just simply faded away.
>
> The rest of the night, I tried to analyze what I
> saw that night. Definitly not planes, there were
> no blinking lights and flying way too slow. They
> were not flares of any kind because the lights
> were too orginized in a pattern and they didn't
> have that pulsating that flares give off.
>
> I'm wondering, HOPING, that someone else who was
> out that night around that time noticed these
> lights as well.
Mystery solved =
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