What I and four others saw this (sober
) evening...
time: approx 2350 local July 31st 2004
duration: approx 7 mins
location: guess 15-30km East of Essendon
alt: guess 10-20km
cloud: cirrostratus + some alto obscuring stars
event:
We noticed two intense, large, flame coloured lights estimated at 15-30km East of Essendon. The lights were well separated and seemed to hover for about 4mins.
The light that appeared higher or further East then appeared to move towards North or descend, whilst the other reacted in the opposite sense. Movement was not symmetrical and large separation was maintained.
The light that appeared to be higher dissapeared as it accelerated to what seemed an Easterly direction, whilst the second dissapeared soon after in an apparent South Easterly direction.
ATC did not record anything unusual.
Did anyone else witness these lights? I havent seen anything like them before. Their position and apparent motion suggests that they were not aircraft (in the normal sense), they seemed to be too high and move not like balloons.
yeah yeah i know where these stories usually end up but I did see them and they were unusual enough for me to write a post about them
