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The original report contains many details that indicate the objects were not simply planes. Flickering, uncharacteristic changes in speed and direction, movement while unlit, and other behavior atypical to conventional aircraft operating proceedures are clearly portrayed. Sadly, no photographic evidence is available.
Comment: The above mentioned report reads:
Occurred : 8/28/2010 10:30 (Entered as : 8/28/2010 10:30)
Reported: 8/30/2010 9:05:13 AM 09:05
Posted: 8/30/2010
Location: Rochester, NY
Shape: Fireball
Duration:10 minutes
We saw 20 to 30 fireballs floating or gliding higher and then slowly flickering out.
My husband and my sister and I just came back from playing miniature golf and were driving along the road. My sister saw what she thought were red stars and asked what they were. My husband and I both said they were just towers, as we were near the airport. But then they started to move and get closer and we knew they were not towers.
Every few seconds more would float up until there were about 20 to 30 in the sky. We pulled over into a nearby plaza to get a better look and try to get some pictures. Several other people had pulled in to look at them too. One guy yelled out his window to us "what ARE those?" We answered that we had no idea.
The objects were completely silent. They left no trails. They looked like orangish-reddish fire, they flickered, but it was clear that it was not aircraft lights (like red/white of planes). Also they didn't appear to flash uniformily like a light bulb would. It looked more like the flickering of fire. After a while the lights started to flicker out. But my husband then pointed to where one of them was and we saw that we could still see something moving against the sky, it was just completely darkened.
At that point there was a commercial jet in the sky and they were moving about twice the speed of the jet. But before, while they were lit up, they were moving much slower.
All three of us are college educated, upper middle class. My sister is 25. I am 29, and my husband is 34.
The report also relates the presence of "several" other witnesses, some of whom are described as having pulled their cars into a nearby shopping plaza in order to safely watch the spectacle. This would seem to indicate that few who observed such phenomena locally chose to come forward with reports of having done so in this case.
It is estimated by a Brighton police dispatch officer that calls concerning UFOs to Rochester area police departments are placed fewer than a half dozen times each year. Nonetheless, unofficial annual reports of UFO sightings now number in the hundreds of thousands in our nation alone, as America grows more curious about what may now be occupying the skies above her busy, puzzled head.
Colored U.F.O. s in video from Rochester, N.Y.
November 10th, 2010 7:56 pm ET
Timothy Canuti
Reports of lights in the night sky over the city of Rochester in upstate New York have been documented since the early 1950's, if not before.
Remarkably, similarities of location and description in many of these reports from the past few decades suggest they represent an irregular yet persistently recurring phenomenon.
Among the most recent documentation describing colored lights are these youtube videos, posted on 2/8/08 and 2/24/09.
After doing some research pertaining to several comments made on both video's pages, it was ascertained that very similar reports have been documented locally since at least 1987. Typical patterns in the description of these lights include their position in the southern portion of the Rochester skyline, early yearly appearance, and similarities in movement, number, and duration.
Most commonly, a single light is reported shortly after twilight, which then hovers for as long as a four hours before it is joined by a second and sometimes a third or more identically flashing colored objects. The lights then move off, occasionally in formation but more frequently in separate directions and speeds which vary between reports.
"They aren't planes... they don't blink." said one observer, who wishes to remain anonymous due to past ridicule for expressing a belief that the objects may be neither terrestrial nor astronomical in cause. "Sometimes they don't even move. They change color fast, red to blue to green over and over again. I haven't seen them again in years, but these videos on the internet look to me like the same thing."
The noted similarity of these descriptions to the planet Venus (which has often been mistaken for a U.F.O. historically) does not explain the number or behavior of the light's movements, which appear to be different on each occasion and to differ from the mechanics of any cataloged astronomical bodies. In fact, there are similar reports from all over the country during recent years.
The objects' frequent appearances in the early part of the calendar year has caused NASA scientists to link such reports to coronal stars, which may sometimes appear to move strangely at certain angles and times of the year. As above, this explanation is not adequate to explain the conditions as reported in all cases.
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