ufo, or star?

[davey72]

I have been noticing an unidentified flying object in the sky almost everynight in the same spot for quite awhile now. It is hard to tell that it is not a star until one really observes it for awhile. There are most times not even one other star visible when i observe it. I imagine because it is too early in the night, usually. I first noticed it when there were other stars, as it was so big, and bright. As i stared at it, i noticed that there were other colors, most notably red. It also moves, almost clumsily back and forth, and side to side. I finally, the other night, was able to make someone look at it long enough to agree with me, so now i know that it is not just me. I believe it is usually in the same area, but am not positive, as i have seen it in other areas of the city. For the last month, or so, it has been in the south from where i am in central Calgary. I would love to know if anyone else can see it?

I wrote this last night, so as to get it down and share it today without too much bother. I got up at 5 this morning, and went out for the express purpose of checking things out. I am now wondering if this is just the north star now, or something? I was looking at all the stars, and although i couldn't find the particular one i was speaking of, i am not sure if i just really never paid that much attention to stars, but now when i look at them, every single one of them look like sattelites or something. I see them all blinking with different colors, predominately red, as if they are on fire. Like i can see it so specifically. I remember as a kid, that they were just white lights to me, and now it is like i am seeing completely different things than what i remember them to be. They still weren't nearly a sbright as this other one, and they didn't seem to move the same, but it is amazing that i have never seen stars this way. Has anyone else noticed this, like maybe it is an effect of the oncoming wave, or is it just me?

 

[HiThere]

I had similar thoughts about a star once, because it seemed to be way too bright and its seeming shifting of colors - it turned out to be Canis Major, which is the major culprit in cases like this, I am given to understand. :)

 

[loreta]

The other night and some nights I see a star that is different from the others, I don't talk about the North Star, but another one, two nights ago she was so brilliant! Not like the others stars. And when I look at the stars me too I see different colours, red and blue most of the time. One night, before I sleep in the total blackness I used to sleep with my windows open and then I wake up because some star or some thing was illuminating the sky in a weird way. I felt very happy. Every night I look at the stars, I never know the difference between a star and a satelite.

Loreta

 

[Graalsword]

I had the same thoughts about it a few times. Though I think they were stars. Except once 12 years ago, when I believed I was seeing Venus, then after a few seconds "venus" began to move and suddenly flew towards outter space, so it was probably a UFO.

Also many times I have thought, what if some stars are not really stars as we perceive it? After all, if they can make us believe that mars has two moons, and according to the Cs those are 4D STS space bases... But as always happens with these phenomena, is mostly speculation

 

[SeekinTruth]

Funny this was mentioned. I was thinking of posting an update to the following:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25151.0.html

Since that sighting, I've seen the same phenomena in the same exact spot several times. Yesterday morning around 6:45 AM local time when I went out on the balcony to have my first cigarette, I saw it again and it seemed a bit farther away and a little more southwest in position and higher in the sky. It was flickering in a weird way again, and again when it first caught my attention, I thought it might be an unusually large and bright star with an intense flicker. Then it started moving in the sky again, first going away from me and a bit more to the west (to my right from my viewing position). Then in circled back and began to slowly go down lower in the sky; and after a couple of minutes sank down in the sky behind the building again and I couldn't see it any longer.

In my case it always start to move as I'm watching it, so it's definitely NOT a star, although when I first notice it, it just looks like an unusual star.

 

[davey72]

Funny this was mentioned. I was thinking of posting an update to the following:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,25151.0.html

Since that sighting, I've seen the same phenomena in the same exact spot several times. Yesterday morning around 6:45 AM local time when I went out on the balcony to have my first cigarette, I saw it again and it seemed a bit farther away and a little more southwest in position and higher in the sky. It was flickering in a weird way again, and again when it first caught my attention, I thought it might be an unusually large and bright star with an intense flicker. Then it started moving in the sky again, first going away from me and a bit more to the west (to my right from my viewing position). Then in circled back and began to slowly go down lower in the sky; and after a couple of minutes sank down in the sky behind the building again and I couldn't see it any longer.

In my case it always start to move as I'm watching it, so it's definitely NOT a star, although when I first notice it, it just looks like an unusual star.

Same here. It starts to move while i stare at it, but it is so minimal that i can never be sure if it is just my imagination, but then i got a friend to look at it with me,and he reported the same thing. I wonder if it is that really bright star, and our eyes playing tricks, or maybe the wave is increasingly giving these types of effects to the stars through our eyes? I wonder?

 

[Aneke]

I have often seen the same phenomenon. I have assumed that the flickering between colors and the tiny movements were due to fluctuation and moisture in Earth's atmosphere. I don't think this explanation can apply to every case, though. I've seen some pretty out of the ordinary flickering and movement that I couldn't attribute to a normal star. Usually, the flickering will be all sorts of colors, not just white and red, but blue, green, red, and it will seem to light up in different areas. Also, these sorts of "stars" have been low on the horizon, not high-up, and seem too nearby.

Davey, I totally agree with you that the sky seems completely different now than it did when I was a kid. I remember looking at the stars and they were just white dots. Now they are like a rainbow of changing color. I feel like something has changed, definitely. Whether it's us, the observers, or the actual stars...?

 

[davey72]

Exactly. Perhaps it was just cause i was a kid, but they were just white dots. Also, like you say i cant see a star being so low in the atmosphere . Anyways, i checked again the other night, and it has either changed position relative to the moon, or it was not there.

 

[ginkgogirl]

My neighbors and I have been observing these weird "stars" since last august. With the naked eye they look like "normal" stars, just more sparkly. A really good set of eyeballs might see a brief flash of red. However, when observed through high powered binoculars you see something quite bizarre. Red green and blue lights that move very fast leaving trails much like a sparkler being waved around.

I was surprised to find this article on earthfiles recently where a fellow from Kitchener Ontario was interviewed that has been observing and photographing this phenomenon for a year and a half! These amazing still photos represent exactly what we have seen. These images seem the same as video taken in Stephenville Texas back in '08.

There are several of these in the sky on any given night. They are "masquerading" as stars... moving through the sky in the same way... yet closer observation shows they are anything but!

Really puzzling as to what this might be. Since others here have noticed this thought I'd share the article.

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1922&category=Environment .

 

[davey72]

Thing is,if you look long enouth,you can see it with the naked eye. Is it odd to be able to see the moon at three in the afternoon? Or,have i just never noticed before?

 

[zhahown]

Hi- It is normal to see the moon at 3 in the afternoon yes, it's just faint usually.

& I'm not too far from davey72 (I'm in Cranbrook). My first ( & not last by any means!) sighting of 2011 was a "star" that just blinked right out, on a clear, cloudless night. 2 sightings before 2011 in my entire life (I'm 36), & yet NINE sightings in 2011 itself. & coincidentally enough, it seemed to have been triggered by reading the Cassiopaean transcripts last winter, reading every day for about 2 months.

I'm from Ontario origionally & I thought my days of UFO sightings were over. Holy crapandahalf was I wrong!

 

[SeekinTruth]

I was just out on the back balcony to have a smoke and noticed a "star" moving in the sky, quite close. Then it turned into a 5 pointed star and then an equilateral triangle (3 points of light/"stars" in this shape/configuration) as it moved toward me. In about a minute and a half, it started to become just one light again and then disappeared.

A bit (maybe a couple of minutes) later I saw another just like it a bit (about 25 meters) to the left in the sky but moving much slower. I got binoculars (my camera with the telephoto lenses is with my brother) and looked at it. It was changing from one light to three in the shape of an equilateral triangle and back and then into an arc with glowing light spread from the center. Then I noticed that another one (or the same/first one) was back in the original area of the sky but a little further away and lower in the sky close to the roof line of a tall building -- but it was even brighter, and barely moving.

I kept looking alternately at the two as they kept morphing back and forth in shape/configuration until I got too cold and the one near the roof line was getting close to disappearing behind the building, I came in to write about it here.

 

[ocean59]

I was just out on the back balcony to have a smoke and noticed a "star" moving in the sky, quite close. Then it turned into a 5 pointed star and then an equilateral triangle (3 points of light/"stars" in this shape/configuration) as it moved toward me. In about a minute and a half, it started to become just one light again and then disappeared.

Fwiw, I saw a rather suspicious light in the sky last night. While at a gathering, there was a much brighter than usual star-like object, slowly moving across the sky, perpendicular to the horizon. I theorized it could have been an airplane with an extra bright front light (despite clear skies and a bright moon), but what is strange is that after a few minutes it stopped, moved slightly in the opposite direction, and then stopped completely.

For the next hour I kept checking on it - it never got any closer or farther away, nor did it move left or right, it just stayed right there, same brightness. There were no blinking or colored lights that would give further clues, it just ended up looking like a normal, though brighter than usual, star. Only when it moved was it obviously how low it really was (airplane altitude). This was around 6:30-7:30PM Pacific (West coast US) time.

 

[SeekinTruth]

Yeah, the ones I saw were a bright white light as well, Jason -- no changing of colors this time. But I forgot to mention in my description, the first one I saw was flickering prominently as it began morphing into the different shapes.

 

[Mikey]

My neighbors and I have been observing these weird "stars" since last august. With the naked eye they look like "normal" stars, just more sparkly. A really good set of eyeballs might see a brief flash of red. However, when observed through high powered binoculars you see something quite bizarre. Red green and blue lights that move very fast leaving trails much like a sparkler being waved around.

That's what you see when you look at a star which is flickering (i.e. changing colors) with a binocular. The binocular magnifies not only the image but also the micro-movements of your hand, and then the flickering star seems to be dragged out on a irregular, colorful line (due to the 'inertia' of the eyes/optical nerves). Some people take pictures of this with a long exposure time and then they claim that this is a UFO because it looks like a really weird line.

My grandmother actually was observing the Hale Bopp comet with binoculars and she reported to me that it moved back and forth with high speed. Of course it did not do that. She just didn't realize that she couldn't hold the binoculars steady enough to have a still picture and totally misinterpreted what she was seeing.

Also the fact that this phenomenon is consistent over a long period of time suggests that it is just a flickering star. Remember the elusive nature of the true UFO phenomenon.

Also, because it was mentioned here a few times that a phenomenon in the sky "is near"... Human eyes have a stereo view only for very close distances, and if something is further away than a few hundred meters, it naturally can only look two dimensional, with no possibility to estimate the distance (provided it doesn't move in front of another object of which you know the distance). So, how can you determine that?