My fiance and family saw something unusual in the sky last night... not once, but twice!... that although I have no photograph of, seems significant enough to post. Here's what happened.

The incident started fairly early in the evening last night when we were sitting outside at Starbucks enjoying coffee after my fiance and my nephew's TaeKwonDo class.

My Dad and sister had joined us, as had one of our friends from the class. Everyone was engaged in spirited conversation, and I was listening, but I constantly scan the sky... it's just a habit I have fallen into over the years as a result of the many sightings I have had.

I saw this (big, so either low flying or if high up HUGE!) round, golden light floating completely silently across the newly darkened sky at an angle from southwest to northeast. I latched onto it visually, and pointed it out to Bob (my fiance), who did likewise.

Everyone else was knee-deep in conversation about Europe (my Dad, my sister, my roommate and her son, and our friend from class) so they went right on chatting and did not take note. I didn't interrupt their conversation, as they do not share my interest in UFOs, and at that point it didn't seem all that spectacular... not enough to shout, "Holy ****... look at that!"

Even my fiance lost interest after a time, as it moved out of visual range from where our group was sitting, but I got up and walked out into the parking lot to continue observing it until it faded into the distance and became too small to see.

I wasn't sure what it was. I knew what it WASN'T. I was not a small, low-flying plane. There were no flashing lights, nor the configuration of colors you see on the lights of small planes that identifies which direction they are coming or going in, and it was completely silent. It was not a satellite.

It was much too big and/or low in the sky for that. And it was not a meteor or meteorite, as it moved far too slow and purposefully to be either (plus changed directions! More about that later... ), and it wasn't "space junk" falling to earth either. Again, it moved too slow and purposefully and did not have a downward trajectory.

When we got back to the house, our housemate's son followed his Mom to her room to look up a site to do his registration for the upcoming TKD competition in Berkeley, CA, at the end of this month, and that seemed to take forever.

By the time he got done, it was close to 11:00 PM, and I had by then changed into my jammies and was in the recliner in the front room, watching TV. My fiance was tied up with homework on his computer down the hall. We said our goodnights and our roommate walked her son out to his car.

They weren't out there two minutes when she came back to the front door and asked me to come out to see something in the sky. I hobbled out there in my bare feet (I have a broken toe that's on the mend!), and she pointed out a large gold ball of light dancing amid the tree top line in the northeast sector of the sky.

It was the same thing my fiance and I had seen in the parking lot at Starbucks, and watched for a good ten minutes. I couldn't see it for very long from the vantage point of the front yard, as it kept bobbing up and down, going in and out of sight.

I'm not talking about a "slight" bob of what would appear to the eye as a few inches or so, but more like five or six feet! I say this because sometimes an ordinary star will appear to be moving in and out of position just slightly because of atmospheric interference when it is fairly low on the horizon, as this was. But no.

I went back in the house and went out on the back patio to see if I could see it better from there, and sure enough, there it was. It continued to lift and lower, moving slowly north, and then it went behind some trees until I could no longer see it from any vantage point in our yard.

Because I was in my pajamas (!) I did not feel comfortable going out front and chasing it down the street, so I let it be. But whatever it was, it was definitely playing games with us, or so it seemed. Almost like it was going, "Neener-neener-neener... you can't catch me!"

Was it a UFO? I'm not sure. Not like I have been about other truly definitive sightings I have had, and though I closed my eyes briefly and opened to receiving same, there was no telepathic communication such as I've received from crafts passing overhead in the past. So I'm not sure what this was. As I said, I can only say for sure what it was NOT!

Additional information:

I've been thinking about last night's sighting all day, and this afternoon while traveling south on Interstate 5 coming home from my Dad and sister's place north of us, I saw six unmarked black helicopters flying in loose formation across the daylight sky.

I'm not sure why, but I immediately associated them with last night's sighting. I can't remember a time when I've seen six helicopters flying in formation across Redding's sky!

Submitted by C J