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| My wife and I were out in lawn chairs in our small yard facing north east watching the Pleiades meteor shower. It was around 10:30 pm, EDT, It was clear, and we saw quite a few nice examples of meteors, maybe one every two minutes. We were sitting close to the house, with a small window behind us, when I heard our cat meow to us from the window.
I got up and sweet talked to him through the window, since he is a very needy cat, when my wife said, "honey! it's a U.F.O.!". I turned around just in time to see a dimly lit, almost shrouded configuration of three dull amber/brownish lights in the north east sky, and they seemed to be pretty low in altitude. It resembled the effect of some one shining three muted lights in a triangular pattern on a low and overcast sky. It's a tough thing to explain. Anyway, we ran into the middle of the street which is maybe 50 yards from where we were sitting, and watched the triangular pattern steadily move from east to west to finally be obscurred by a large tree in our yard. In the time my wife had seen the object, before I had turned around at her warning of it, she said that it had slowly appeared out of the east and stopped, rotated from a configuratuion of two lights leading a third, to a single light leading the other two. I guess a better description would be to imagine a triangle with a light on all three tips, and having it rotate from the fat side of the triangle facing, to the tip facing. It also seemed to have solid mass in the middle, and not three seperate objects. I've seen some unusual things in the sky before in the past, but I was by myself, and could easily rationalise them in my mind as maybe my imagination. But seeing it with some one else, well, it makes it pretty hard to explain away so easily to myself. I definately felt the hair stand up all over my body when we saw it, and I don't feel so nuts since my wife saw it too. |