| ID | #1604848289 |
| Added | Sun, 08/11/2020 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Status | Fact
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I would like to report an incident that occurred 30 years ago, sometime in October / November 1978.
Together with a friend, we were driving through the Eastern part of France, heading to Strasbourg. It was already night, maybe 10pm or 11pm, 50-60 miles South of Strasbourg on the motorway, and yet we had to drive 1 hour to our destination.
We decided to stop at a Park place to have a little rest and a snack. It was a starry night, and as we rested we looked up at the starry sky. After a while, we saw in the West of the starry sky, as a bright luminous star dissolved from the stellar Union and began to move.
This light point (about 30° above the horizon), moved, even jumped very quickly up and down, left and right, zigzag and perpendicular.
I tried to somehow estimate/scale the magnitude of these movements by extending my hand forward to see how many fingers are in the range of this movement. As far as I remember, the movement from the light point covered approx. the width of 2-3 fingers on an outstretched hand crossed in less than a second.
Starting with this " light show” in the sky, we thought that an airplane or helicopter might be responsible for this, but we rejected this idea because: the 1st movement started from a fixed position, and the 2nd movement profile was so incredible, fast in speed and fast in changing directions. From our position, we could not estimate how far away this point of light was, since, according to our first impression, this point of light looked just like a bright star.
We didn't hear any noise either.
The movement of the light points continued for a while, and after a while we decided not to look at this light show in the sky anymore and not to bother with things that we can't explain.
Somehow deep impressed and confused we left the scene and continued driving in the direction of Strasbourg. We promised ourselves not to tell anyone about this event , because we thought that no one would believe us, and we were afraid of ridicule. However, 30 years have passed, but the memory of that night is still there for me, as if it was yesterday.
I am reporting this case now because the Internet really provides an opportunity to share this experience with an open-minded community. Maybe someone has a simple explanation for this .
Original news
Date: November 10 1978
Location: Strasbourg France
Time: 22:00
Summary: I like to report an incident, which occurred 30 years ago, somewhere in October/November 1978. Together with a friend, we were traveling by car in the east part of France heading to Strasbourg. It was already night , might be 10PM or 11PM, 50-60 miles south of Strasbourg on a motorway and still we had to drive 1hour to our destination. We have been tiered already , so we decided to stop on a park place for to take a little rest and to eat a snack. It was a starlit night and while resting , we looked to the starry-sky. After a while, we recognized that out of the star-scene in the west of the starry-sky a bright lighting star dissolved out from the star-alliance and started to move. That light point ( approx. 30º above the horizon ), moved, even jumped very rapidly up and down, left and right, zigzag and perpendicular. e tried somehow to estimate/scale the magnitude of those movements by stretching or arm forward for to see how many fingers the movement ranged. So far I remember, the movement from the light-point covered approx. the width of 2-3 fingers on a stretched arm, crossed in less than a second. On the beginning from that “light-show” in the sky, we thought that an airplane or helicopter might be responsible for this , but we rejected this idea because: 1st the movement started from a fixed-position and 2nd the profile of movements was so incredible, rapidly in speed and rapidly in changing of move-directions. From our location we could not estimate how far away from us that light-point was , as according our first impression , that light-point appeared just as a bright star. We could not hear any noise, either. The light-point movements went on for some time and after a while we decided not to look further to that light-show in the sky and not to bother ourselves with things we cannot explain. Somehow deep impressed and confused we left the scene and continued to drive towards to Strasbourg. We promised ourselves not tell anyone about that event , because we thought that nobody will believe us and we feared of ridicule. However, 30 years past, but the memory on that night is for me still present as it was yesterday. I am reporting that case now, because internet does provide now the opportunity to share those experiences with an open-minded community. Maybe someone has a simple explanation for that .
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