First, I ask those of you who wish to make snide comments about this diary and you don't live in the Washington area - please keep them to yourselves. For those of you that live here don't simply dismiss my accounts because most people who talk about "UFOs" have a tenuous grip on reality. I tend to believe that myself - but, I cannot ingore what I have seen in the past week, and I doubt anyone who takes a moment to look for themselves will not have some questions about what they have seen.
We can debate what's going on up there, but the fact is that since Thanksgiving night, I have spent three nights and one pre-dawn morning watching dozens and dozens of strange lights skip through the skies over my home just north of DC - UFOs in a very technical sense.
Last Thursday, shortly after dinner, I stepped outside my sister's house near Frederick, MD to cool off. It was shortly after sunset and the sky was perfectly clear - a perfect night to observe satelites pass far overhead, reflecting the sun still shining up there. From the ground, an average satellite appears like a dim star moving with uncanny steadiness from one horizon to the other. Because our visual system is optimized to perceive motion in our entire field of view except straight forward, a "star" in motion is caught in the corner of our eyes.
When I turned to look, however, I did not see one dim white spot, but five bright yellow dots - all travelling in perfect formation. Then some of the dots faded, other appeared when there had been none, back and forth for a few seconds. Then, the formation silently dispersed and each dot went off on its own tangent, some dimming, some brightening, some accelerating and others (and this is when I first uttered "What the Fuck?") nearly stopping in mid-air. For the next hour, these objects were seen by my entire family - oringinally peeved that I demanded they stand in the cold to see a bunch of planes - apologizing to me for their mockery. Yes, in fact, they did pulse an erie red. They did vanish, then appear again later. They did slow in a very unnatural way, they did float up, they did suddenly accerate laterally and reverse in an aeronautical zig-zig.
This entire display was silent.
Eventually, the faint rumble of jets was accompanied by the distant but distinctive strobe of a military fighter. But even these machines seemed different. I live 1 mile inside the DC no fly zone, so the sounds of a fighter lighting its afterburners for intercept is unmistakable - a deep roar that your would associate with a rokcet not a small jet. These airplanes were fast, yet there was no thunder and no blow torch out the back end. No afterburner.
The next morning and evening and tongiht, this time back home, fewer yellow dots appeared each time. However, the sky has become clogged with dozens of distant stobe lights crossing back and forth. It seems the commercial pilots were somehat informed because their approaches to DCA and IAD are way lower than normal and EVERY light on the craft is fully illuminated - they do look like a spacecraft.
It's 10:20, and I noticed that the activity has died down about this time on previous nights. However, whatever the military is doing, they still have kept a few planes up. Find the slow stobe lights meandering above.
Look, I know this sounds nuts, but I have personally witnessed this stuff AND told-ya-so'd everyone who braved the cold to shut me up.
Please recommend this diary if you live in the DC area. I'd like to figure out what's going on, insiders!! Even if you don't care why, figure that millions of dollars in fuel are now burning up over our heads each night. You can always unrec if you are not impressed by blinking lights.
Please recommend this diary if you have seen these lights, here or anywhere. On youtube, I found a number of videos of these UFO's, most from the past month. No, I don't really trust the youtuber to provide honest work, but these sightings are worldwide so conspiracies or cults seem unlikely.
I shall update after I step out again, and also post some of the video I found on youtube (I don't have a camera sensitive enoguh.)
UPDATE (Not my videos, but looks like what I've seen)
Los Angeles Nov 1.