I was moving plants on deck as cold was expected overnight. Noticed 2 then also a third light about a hand width above the treetop line in the e/se sky. Theywere larger than a starpoint of light, smaller than jupiter looks with naked eye. Not sharply defined with an edge so I call them orblike lights. Seemed a bit orange in color.
We are very used to seeing aircraft lights and the stars in our sky area and have a very good view of them as we are away from city lights and have a great dark background for them. These lights were clearly not aircraft or common stars and bright and unusual enough to grab my attention.my thought was that I was seeing something very much out of the ordinary that I wanted to try to identify. I grabbed my panasonic lumix dcm-f18 and got 4 photos.1 pic each of two of the lights, and 2 pics of the third light.do not know for sure what order or which are the pair.was rushing and pretty much going on autopilot for pics and was getting them in frame and holding the camera on them to focus. Looking at this page as a clock face 1st was at 1 oclock a 2nd at 7:30 and a 3rd at a point halfway between the center point and 6 oclock. The light at 7:30 was close to a hand width above the treetop line with the others progressively higher and spreading up and to the right. They were stationary and did not move around the sky. They may have moved slightly in their part of the sky if at all but i was really too busy to stop and evaluate dead still or not.
I just got the photos and the lights went out pretty much at the same time as one another but there may have been a slight stagger. Again I was not able to take in every detail of this aspect as i was focusing on the camera and a little bit flustered as well, but the lights did seem to just go out like you would turn off a lamp and they did this closely in time. I was excited to see these lights and be able to take photos of them. I put the camera in review mode and was hardly able to see more than a tiny bit of image/light in all the black background.but by clicking up the mag function I saw some strange stuff.got even better when I loaded the memory card into the laptop with a bigger screen.
I wondered if anyone else had seen this display and decided to call the local tv station wwmtv in Kalamazoo. I spoke with the weather guy and he said it could be a couple of things weather related and agreed to look at the photos.he mailed me back and said he eliminated the possible causes he had initially thought of and said he had never seen anything like this before. He asked if the objects were moving or still and I told him what I have stated here. We talked about there seeming to be shape/structure in the images. I am hoping to hear from him again to see if he can share any info that might shed light on this event. my memory of mufon from a tv program led me to this site. I will try to attach photos.
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look like comets burning up.