Size of Object(s)

Compared to a plane at about the same distance the five objects appeared rather big.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

They seemed to be far in the direction of the mountains but not really past the mountains.

Description of Area / Surroundings

This was an urban area and right in the middle of the city. However, due to the cloudy weather I am not sure if a lot of people saw it. Still, I would like to know if anybody did.

Full Description & Details

It was christmas at an apartment complex. My family had gathered there past noon and we were just conversating. Suddenly another family member that was at another apartment called ours and told us that there were some colorful lights in the sky. We looked out and yes, there were. The sky was cloudy partly because it was cold but also because of a great fire that had been burning for a few days now. The fire as well as the planes and helicopters were appearing on the news during those days, but the day that those lights came out nobody said anything on the news. Well, now we went out (we were on the second floor) and looked at them for a while. My father went to grab a camera and took some pictures of these strange colorful stationary lights in the sky. To my recollection, there were five, and among the colors displayed I could see that at least one of them was yellow, another blue or aquamarine, and another between pink and red tones. I do not exactly remember the color of the others, but they were similar, perhaps with an orange tone too. The point is that these lights were there just floating in the air for no apparent reason. They formed a half circle and were a bit spaced out from each other. The interesting thing was that one of them was kind of circling or passing by another of the lights on the far right. This moving light was the only one in motion and was moving extremely slowly and very close to another one. Unfortunately the sky was very cloudy and the smoke from the fire was not helping. Therefore, soon they were covered and hidden among the clouds.

My father took six pictures of the objects. He later told me that he used a distant plane as a reference point to these rather big lights. As usual however, and this is the part where a lot of skeptics do not believe, none of the pictures taken show any of the lights! You can clearly see the little plane in the picture, and yet you cannot see any traces of any lights or of any other objects. It must be noted, however, that I do not claim that these are extraterrestials, I only claim that these are UFOs. And what is a UFO? Well, it is precisely that! It is an Unidentified Flying Object!!! Later...it was briefly said on the news that a plane had fallen near Santa Clarita and in the exact direction (although perhaps not the exact location) of the lights that I saw. Nevertheless, even this plane crash was not thoroughly talked about in the news.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

Yes, some people might tell me. "Oh, it was simply a plane or a helicopter trying to put out the fire." Well, all I got to say is: if this is a plane or a helicopter, what kind of new colorful devices are these, and why were they so far and high up from the fire? Clearly, these objects were doing nothing but just sitting there, and plus, they were kind of high. I have seen the planes and helicopters that put out that fire and others, and never had I seen something like this, and neither had some of my family members who are older than me.

Witness Background

I am a philosophy student of twenty years of age who will stop at nothing to attain a Phd. I am young, and yet (without sounding narcissistic) I have very complicated theories about what there is and about human nature. I have yet to gain the wisdom of age, but compared to people my age and their idle ideas, I can say that I have far surpassed them.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Well, I am an amateur UFOlogist. I love the subject because I know that despite criticism it is indeed a world wide and an ancient phenomenon. There is nothing illogical with speculating about other races besides the human race. I know a little about the laws of physics and about what the scientists and skeptics have to say, but no matter how much they want to disprove it, their explanations of weather ballons, stars, and meteors even seem childish and absurd when compared to the inmmensity and the characteristics of the UFO phenomenon.

Other Comments

Being a devoted philosopher and seeker of the truth I have a lot of comments to make, and also partly because I want to help people open their minds, use logic, and abide to good reasoning. Having said that, however, I can summ it all up by saying that there is more to this world and this Universe than what we see or understand. When we use good reasoning and logic one discovers the notion that perhaps we as humans are nothing but a speck of dust in this vast and infinite Universe; and once we start thinking like that, but only once we truly start thinking like that, we as humans abandon our egotism and begin looking at the world and the Universe with open eyes and with open minds.

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