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I am from Annanagar, Chennai, India. I saw that light. I remember what I saw. I cannot forget it.
Today the local morning TV news and "Hindu" paper (one of Chennai's regional papers confirmed the light)
TV news didn't say much about what it is, except that it's a light that's been seen by people (even far away from where I live), and they said it was there for 15-30 minutes.
The paper doesn't mention the period of time it lasted. but the fact is, the light was there. Both news sources confirmed the light. Even if they didn't report this, I would still believe what I saw.
Here is the Hindu paper news, page 3, May 3, 2010:
Shiny object sighted (headline)(That's it. That's was how big the news was.)
Chennai: Residents of several areas in the city on Sunday called the Regional Meteorological Department and reported having seen a shiny object in the night sky.
P.Iyamperumal, Executive Director, Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre, said it could have been the International Space Station or a meteor shower.
My brother called me to have a look at a light in the sky that was moving and was round (I was watching the movie "King Arthur" in my computer). I got excited, and we rushed to the terrace. I clearly saw the light, moving from left to right and back to left, covering a big distance, above my head, in such height, at once, in great speed.
Small packs of white-yellow clouds, close to each other, were floating above our heads. The moon was big, dull-shiny on the east (30-35 degree above my eyesight level). The moon was on my left, and I was facing between southeast and south direction.
The light was above our heads, 65-75 deg from my eyesight level in between southwest to south direction. It was 3/4 the size of the big moon.
It was duller, and faded around the circumference. It was like coming behind the cloud (like the way a dim source of light would be seen, behind thick fog or smoke). It was not a sphere.
It was round, flat, dim, the color was that of the cloud's color, because the light seemed to come behind the cloud, the moon was far into the sky, to my left. But this was close, just behind the cloud, above my head.
My heart was pumping fast! (this is not a normal thing that happens in everyday life)
I ran down to tell to my chat friend (I am logged-in most of the time and I live in 2nd floor below my terrace - we just have the two floors in our building). I sent the message hurriedly, and ran back outside. It was doing the same motion, to and fro, like a pendulum. And then it vanished.
As far as I know, I may have been it around five minutes. The people on TV said it lasted 15-30 minutes.
I don't think a meteor can do, a to-and-fro motion!
I don't think an International Space Station can be so close, behind the clouds doing such a motion, and move at will!
It was definitely not a plane, helicopter, jet, or anything spherical in shape, either.
After the light vanished, I couldn't see anything, there was nothing in that spot. It just vanished right there in front of my eyes. Me and my brother saw it.
I began to doubt what I saw, after it vanished. Because I don't want to draw my conclusions immediately, that I saw an UFO without proper reasoning, but my intuition was telling me that it was a UFO.
I waited for another half an hour or so, to see if I could find it again, but I could not. I had my own doubts, that, what if somebody from below, near my building, was playing with some light?
But I believe no such light can touch the floating clouds from ground. If so, I could have seen the path of such a powerful light, from where it was projected (just like we the path of light from projectors in cinema halls).
The light was not from inside the clouds, because if so, the clouds would have been disturbed and moved by the movement, if there was a big object inside the clouds, moving in such speed.
There was no disturbance in the cloud's movement, the movement along the path was smooth, not jerky, either.
The movement was mechanically smooth, and it was moving at will, but not randomly. The path was arch-like.
Now the hardest part to explain: the distance it covered...
I am not good at explaining distances, so I invented myself by making myself understand how far could be the distance of the light, covered from point to point in just 1-2 seconds.
I understood the distance this way...
I lift both arms above my head and stretch it full far from my head, in the angle where I saw the light from my eye-level, then I spread my fingers in both hands, connecting my two thumbs, all fingers are spread, connecting 2 thumbs at tip.
From the tip of one pinky finger to the other pinky tip, I measure around 45 centimeters. Now imagine a thread of 45 cm holding in my both hands stretched to the farthest away from my head - that's the distance the light covered, from point to point in 1-2 seconds. So from my eye point, the light was moving that much distance at such height.
What could it have been?
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