Post #194904 by freddiefreelance on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 1:36 PM

On 2005-10-17 23:05, DawnTiki wrote:
About 9 years ago, in the early part of March 1996.
My Grandfather picked me up from work one night around 8 or 9 PM.
The street we were on is a very busy part of town.
Many cars, businesses and homes for about a 10 mile stretch.
But out by the mountains, at the end of the 10 mile stretch of road, in the outskirts of town, it gets pretty dark and begins a desolate part of the Mojave desert.
Back to story... we're driving down the busiest part of town and I see at the end of the road, by the outskirts, there are 4 lights in the night sky. Very, very, very bright lights.
Definitely not stars, they were sitting to low in the horizon and were in front of a mountain range.
All 4 lights hovered at the exact same altitude and all spaced pretty evenly apart. A fifth light would fade in and out every now and then.
I spotted it right away and asked my grandpa if he saw it too, he giggled and said "sure, it was probably a UFO". Except for the fading 5th light, these lights never moved, when we eventually made our turn home, the lights were no longer in our line of vision and we quickly forgot about them.
I don't think Grandpa and I ever mentioned them again to each other. He passed away not long after.
Even though our local military base closed years before, I just assumed they were some sort of wacky military thing they were doing out in the desert and figured there would be something about it in the next days newspaper.
The following day I asked people I came across if they had seen it, I looked in the paper...nothing, no one knew what I was talking about.
Geeez! Do people ever look up???
Anyway, I wont ever forget it because it was like nothing I had ever seen before and have certainly not seen since, well..except for...
This weekend I turn on the boob tube and a UFO show was on, being narrated by Peter Jennings, I remembered this thread and decide to watch it.
Jennings starts talking about some UFO sighting incident and shows some images of what people saw in the sky above Phoenix AZ in 1997.
I sat there amazed. It was the EXACT same thing Grandpa and I saw that night on our way home, in the Mojave Desert about a year prior to the Phoenix sightings.
I still don't know what Grandpa and I saw in the sky that night, does really it matter...who knows? dooodle-doooodle-doooo...

a picture of the Phoenix sighting...

[ Edited by: DawnTiki 2005-10-17 23:39 ]

Dawn, There have been several sightings like this over the years, I believe they're something like a UFO toy I used to make for fun years ago: you take that clear plastic that they use for covering dry cleaning (you can buy it by the roll) & seal the top, heat seal if you can, tie off the top tightly if that's all you can do. Attach large paper reinforcers (about 1x2 inches) with glue near the bottom on both the inside & outside and punch a hole through it, you'll need 3 to 5 depending on the size of the bag. Tie monofiliment through the holes, leaving about 1.5 - 2 feet of line hanging down. Take a sterno can, still sealed, & punch holes through the outer rim with a hammer & nail, as many holes as you have in the bag, and tie the sterno can to the bag. You'll need to use smaller sterno cans for smaller bags, larger for larger bags, you'll probably need to experiment to find the right size. Pop the top off the sterno, light the sterno with a lighter & partially cover the top again. open the bag over the sterno can, holding it open & keeping the bag away from the sterno can, then remove the top from the sterno can. As the air above the sterno can heats up it fills the bag & lifts it off into the night, where it's small, eerie glow can be seen for a long way off... We made some really big ones & attached small flares to them, hanging below the sterno cans, which could be seen for miles as they floated off, heading towards New Jersey.