Posted: April 5, 2009

Date: April 4, 2009
Time: 9:35 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 2
Shape of Objects: Round.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I reported a couple of incidents recently, tonight my partner witnessed the second of two white lights I saw just minutes ago. We were sitting facing west with the house behind us and a clear view of a clear sky. I was looking at the sky to the west when a bright light caught my attention out of the corner of my eye to the north. I stepped to the west a few paces, to clear my view of a nearby tree, because it was the brightest light in the sky and moving away mostly due north at an incredible speed, it seemed. The light appeared at approx. 20 deg. above the horizon and was about 5 deg. lower when it became too dim to see about 5 seconds after I first noticed the light.

It also gradually turned from white to red by the time it faded/too far away to see. My partner stepped out to look but didn't notice the first light as it was moving away getting dimmer. About the time the light faded completely a second light appeared suddenly just a few degrees higher and about a degree to the west of the first one. This one she saw too. It took the exact same trajectory, velocity, white to red color shift and time to fade completely as the first one. No flashing lights, no indication of aviation lights of any sort. Once again, a little brighter and larger than Venus would appear at a similar angle. No tail as if a meteor and both were identical in every way except position, which didn't deviate by much. I couldn't estimate the distance when the lights first appeared though.

Additional Information:

Addendum to my previous posting. The fade from a bright white light to a reddish light reminded of a redshift, or doppler, effect. That just came to me so I thought I'd put it out there.