Strangest sight saturday night sky CT/RI shore

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Brian L

Crazy looking %$%$%$%$. Bright lights with big bellows of smoke/vapor trails. It looked to rise vertically in large steps vs the steady horizontal flight of a plane. I can't recall ever seeing anything remotely like it in my life. We only saw what looked like a single rocket/ship/plane/flying saucer, etc..

Didn't think it was a flying saucer or but what I saw last night, looking a little north of Block (I was well north of Block along the bay) was a single thing, bright red, constant, and big. It was certainly not an anti-collision light from an aircraft and it wasn't blinking. It rose up in a slight arc similar to what a flare would do then seemed to move horizontally. But it did not look like a flare and did not drop as a regular flare or drift as a parachute retarded flare might. It actually seemed to have real lateral motion to it.

In hindsight maybe I did also see what Spence / RIJimmy was seeing as that too was south of Block from my vantage point.

[numbskull]

Met an old guy this past week who used to be a military radar tech. He had worked for 15-20 years on one of those huge radar planes that flew along the eastern seaboard. As a joke I asked him if he ever spotted a UFO. To my surprise he said yes. It was not all that uncommon he said for them to get an unidentified radar target out there, scramble fighters to intercept it, and then have the fighters be unable to get close to it. He certainly believed they existed. I didn't, until of course I met Sauerkraut, who clearly has been penetrated by aliens somewhere along the line.

[striperman36]

It's true even with afterburners, they would move even visually ways that a plane could not.
Thats all I can say about,

[jredfly]

I was suprised to see this thread. I was fishing the Mass South Shore last night betwwen 11:00 and 2:00, don't recall exactly what time it was but at one point the night sky flashed behind us like a street light just popped or exploded. We looked to the sky and you could see the concentrated flash. One of the guys said it was just a shooting star and I said I have seen shooting stars before runnig accross the sky but nothing like this concentrated bursting flash. We just decided to accept the shooting star theory and kept fishing.

[bart]

saw some weird stuff last night as well...