OK - I am not a nut case nor do I dabble in UFO-mania. However, I sometimes see an object in the sky which I would describe as looking similar to a police car's flashing lights - only from, say, a mile or two away. Or it looks a bit like an airplane nearing an airport for landing - only it just floats there. There are 3 or 4 colors: Mostly green, then red and white, occasionally blue. They randomly flash in no partiular order, but fast. It sometimes appears to hover back and forth or even bob slightly up and down. I live just North of San Francisco, in Marin County. This thing is not always there but when it is it's almost always low in the Eastern sky. I won't go into the STUPID stuff some of my friends surmise about this thing. Suffice it to say that I question the police's need to spy on my friends (all of whom work part-time fast food jobs, live at home with their folks and still hangout with our highschool pals). Does anyone (who is educated/rational) know what I am seeing? Thanks
2006-10-21 21:05:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It might be an aura.
Our earth possesses magnetic field. The charged particles from solar flares when pierce the earths' atmosphere collect over its' both poles in space. When their abundance is more exibit beautiful colours over horizon. You please see NASA photographs on internet.
2006-10-21 22:06:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw something similar once - it was almost as bright as a plane's headlight, but changed colors every few seconds or so (not fast like a twinkling star on the horizon). It was definitely man-made, and it looked like it was in the sky, not on a distant mountain (this was in Massachusetts, we don't really have mountains). And it just hovered there for the hour or so that we were out there (my entire astronomy class saw it). We never did figure out what it was - too bad no one here has any definitive answers, either. My best guess was a weather balloon.
2006-10-22 08:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothern star? Stars twinkle because of atmospheric refractions/disturbance. Some weird conditions can generate odd mirage in sky that can project image of objects far away. There have been cases where people in one city report seeing sky line of other cities far off horizon.
2006-10-21 22:06:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I observed a lot of them this night, frequently there is in basic terms one or 2, yet this night, the sky is done of them. First i observed in simple terms one, and after a mutually as i desperate to google it and finally locate out what might desire to or no longer that is. Then i got here across you asking with regard to the right ingredient I actual have been seeing my finished life. you somewhat scared m? alot. So i tryed to envision the sky returned to make constructive its incredibly there and then i spotted there are like 10 of them. some have been flashing like mad, a number of them flashed in basic terms in one coloration. Wow you somewhat freaked me out. I as quickly as had a dream wherein some unusual means all started controlling my physique. i all started telling anybody interior the international to open their eyes and that stars are no longer what they look. After that i undergo in techniques i exchange into in some unusual room, somebody informed me that there are alien ships interior the Earths environment and that we'd desire to continually defeat the darkness. besides the indisputable fact that, I didnt have self assurance it and forgot it by way of fact it exchange into in basic terms a dream yet now by way of fact of you i are conscious of it exchange into genuine.
2016-10-15 07:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
didnt mean to alarm you, but the hangar at area 51 was to full tonight to get a good parking space, so i left "old flashy" parked up there and transported down through the radio waves put off by cell phones
2006-10-21 21:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by notchydaddy1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be a plane or a helicopter it could even just be a twinkling star those things are real colorful and flash very fast and all they are is a star that is about to die.
2006-10-21 21:15:11 · answer #6 · answered by Jeremysmom05 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first guess would be some kind of building on a mountain or hillside. A watertower or an observatory, maybe?
2006-10-21 21:07:36 · answer #7 · answered by The All-Knowing Sam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Police helicopter.
2006-10-21 21:12:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it amy be part of the earth's magnetic field......or it IS POSSIBLE it is an u.f.o.......y not? there r millions of galaxies with billions of planets like earth.so y not outer space life?
2006-10-21 23:23:05 · answer #9 · answered by aarthick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my cousin thurman with a flashlight, trying to catch a coon
2006-10-23 23:34:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋