Date: July 10, 2010
Time: 00:15Weather condition: Clear - star filled sky.
My brother, wife and I were looking for satellites in the night sky when we observed 6 orange/red lights in an asymmetric V formation (two lights on the left/4 on the right) north and east of our home well below the altitude of the airliners that overfly us on their way to and from O'Hare airport in Chicago. The lights were moving at about the speed you normally see a helicopter moving.
We have very little helicopter traffic in our area, being limited in most cases to life flights, so we were interested and continued to watch. We then noticed there was no sound coming from the objects and the lights were constant; not strobing like an aircraft. We watched them move toward the southeast for about 3 minutes and suddenly all 6 disappeared at exactly the same time. The fact that they all disappeared at exactly the same instant and the stars above them remained visible told us they had not flown behind a cloud.
We live in a rural area where there is practically no light pollution. Star gazing is one of our favorite hobbies so we're very familiar with the sun reflecting off objects very high in the atmosphere or in orbit. We don't have an opinion regarding the origin of the lights we observed early this morning; however, we're experienced enough to know they were not high flying objects reflecting the sun nor were they similar to anything we've observed in our many years of watching the night sky.
If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.
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