When I was a kid we lived south of Barksdale AFB which then, as now, is houses B-52s. I could climb the small pine tree in the front yard and see air shows at the air base, I saw at least one weather balloon launched from the base, a B-52 once flew so low over our house I thought he was going to crash. :shocked: The whole house and me was shaking from the vibrations of those engines and to say it was LOUD is an understatement.
On my street but south of our house there was a guy who made RC copters. Big huge things that were noisy, pretty and which he never flew more than 3 feet off the ground. Even then he had "training wheels" on the copter to hopefully keep it from crashing. He never flew it much, I think he was afraid he would break his work of art and I don't blame him one bit. :laughing:
To the west of our house, guys used to fly RC planes on weekend afternoons. My friends and I would hear them flying and bike over to watch. One day, a guy was flying his very nice, just made RC plane when something went wrong and it crashed burying 4-6 inches of the nose into the plane. :shocked: The poor guy was in tears as he picked up the shattered remains of his plane. Can't imagine how many months he work on that plane.
One summer evening my friends and I were out on the street playing as we usually did. It was a typical LA summer evening, hot, humid and no wind which we did not seem to mind. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing: I don't know who first saw it but off to the north we say a red light moving around in the sky. Sometimes it would move east and then west. Sometimes it would go up and then down. At other times it seemed to hover or move towards us or away from us. The movements were linear not circling. A plane that turns, even an RC plane, will loose altitude when turning. This light did not change altitude when it was moving across the sky, only when it was obviously changing altitude.
My first thought was that it was a plane or RC plane but there was no noise. We could hear planes flying at Barksdale and if it was an RC plane we should hear it as well. I never saw a RC plane with a red light and this was at dusk and the RC guys always flew during the day, not with night falling. If it was an RC plane it would have had to bee close to us to see and we would have heard it. Furthermore, if it was close, it was flying over houses, which again non of the RC guys would do. I never saw before or after that, a light much less an RC plane flying to our north and I was riding all over our neighbor hood all of the time.
This light moved around for at least 10-15 minutes and the street filled with people watching the light. It would hover, zoom off in one direction or another, go up and then down, angle off in a different direction at a different rate of speed. It would go from no movement to zooming away at high rates of speed at some strange angle. It appeared to be flying off the east end the runways at Barksdale. Eventually, the light moved up at very high rate of speed and disappeared.
Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, I spent 3-4 hours looking at the meteor showers. It was kinda cold out. :laughing::laughing::laughing: I did see eight meteors which is the most I have ever seen. Not one was red and all disappeared in a second or maybe two. They all were moving from one point in the sky to another, where white and did not change direction. They most certainly did not hover. Some were gone so fast, you wondered if you actually saw one.
What we saw that night was not a meteor.
It was not a plane. It was not a helicopter. It was not an RC aircraft. It was certainly a Unidentified Flying Object(UFO).
Later,
Dan
