Strangest sight saturday night sky CT/RI shore

[ivanputski]

was fishing napatree saturday night, and saw the strangest thing I have witnessed in years... glad there were others there seeing the same thing... coming from the west (CT) over the horizon, in no particular formation, were dozens and dozens and dozens of planes... very erratic formation, but they just kept coming... i was afraid at first they were missles . no strobe lights, just a constant orange light on each one. (who knows these days...) I lost count after about 70, but there were more. anyone else see this? it was about 10pm. perhaps our military moving planes? a seriously strange sight... *for the record, I dont drink or do drugs... never have!!! anyone else out that night in the area see the same thing?

[Swimmer]

[vanstaal]

my buddy told me there were guys on the VHF radio going crazy about that so u were not alone on that

[quick decision]

wow!

[Rappin Mikey]

A group of my friends saw something very weird in the sky at the Race Sat night too.

[ivanputski]

that newspaper looks like a great photoshop job... I never said I thought it was UFOs... but heck if it didn't look like something out of a movie!!!! I would really like to know what it was... if they were planes, where were close to 100 planes going in a long, sloppy formation?

[Thumper]

nasa is saying they launched a rocket

[ivanputski]

100 rockets??? they were very distinct individual lights, in a long row and small clusters, over the course of 15 minutes...travelling from west to east... planes, but not jet engines.... no strobe lights though... steady, single orange light on each... looked similar to the beginning of the Iraq war when they were launching a crap load of scud missles...

[redcrbbr]

saw fire works last night, looked like they were comming from block island. didn't see what you are talking about

[RIJIMMY]

im going to let Spence and Fishbones respond to this, we saw something very strange in the sky saturday night. Not what you described, but something very odd.

[spence]

If it was around 10 then it certainly wasn't the NASA rocket that caused our phenomenon, nor the Block Island fireworks.

-spence

[nightfighter]

So must be Bush's fault???

[Brian L]

Putski- A friend and I saw it as well on Saturday night. I was in my Boat in front of Charlestown beach with a friend and saw something in the southern sky over Block. It was some time between 8 and 9 PM. My friend called back this morning and mentioned that he read that NASA was doing some testing that was seen as far north as New Hampshire. Didn't see the multiple lights/planes you describe, as the boat was on the trailer by quarter to 10 and I wasn't watching the sky.

Crazy looking %$%$%$%$. Bright lights with big bellows of smoke/vapor trails. It looked to rise vertically in large steps vs the steady horizontal flight of a plane. I can't recall ever seeing anything remotely like it in my life. We only saw what looked like a single rocket/ship/plane/flying saucer, etc..

After 15 minutes, we decided that WWWIII wasn't starting and got back to fishing. My friend was reeling a 15lb fish to the boat and had something very large chase it right up to the side of the boat. Whatever it was missed the fish and slammed into the side/bottom of the boat. Boat's painted black on the bottom and it was a dark night, wonder if whatever it was never saw the boat. Whatever it was, (shark, seal, alien sea monster, etc..) moved my 18 footer enough to almost knock me out of it. We were sufficiently creeped out for the next hour to say the least.

[scottw]

NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights
(AP) – 17 hours ago

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

The space agency said it launched the Black Brant XII on Saturday evening to gather data on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere. About the time of the launch, dozens of people in the Northeast started calling local television stations to report seeing strange lights.

The calls came from as far away as Boston, which is about 380 miles northeast of the launch site.

The rocket is designed to create an artificial cloud. NASA hopes the experiment will provide information on the formation and properties of noctilucent clouds, which occur at high altitudes.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[Brian L]

Ahh, the artificial cloud! Makes sense now. There was a big cloud in the sky after it burned off.

[GattaFish]

Originally Posted by scottw

Information on the formation and properties of noctilucent clouds, which occur at high altitudes.

Those Clouds are made of Ice crystals. What else they need to know,,,,??

Guess Obama forgot about the number of people out of jobs in this country and said what the heck lets blow a few hundred million checking out some clouds,,,, Guess the had a few to many beers in the White House...

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Brian L

Crazy looking %$%$%$%$. Bright lights with big bellows of smoke/vapor trails. It looked to rise vertically in large steps vs the steady horizontal flight of a plane. I can't recall ever seeing anything remotely like it in my life. We only saw what looked like a single rocket/ship/plane/flying saucer, etc..

Didn't think it was a flying saucer or but what I saw last night, looking a little north of Block (I was well north of Block along the bay) was a single thing, bright red, constant, and big. It was certainly not an anti-collision light from an aircraft and it wasn't blinking. It rose up in a slight arc similar to what a flare would do then seemed to move horizontally. But it did not look like a flare and did not drop as a regular flare or drift as a parachute retarded flare might. It actually seemed to have real lateral motion to it.

In hindsight maybe I did also see what Spence / RIJimmy was seeing as that too was south of Block from my vantage point.

[Brian L]

Sounds like you saw the same thing I saw, John, but from a different angle.

[numbskull]

Met an old guy this past week who used to be a military radar tech. He had worked for 15-20 years on one of those huge radar planes that flew along the eastern seaboard. As a joke I asked him if he ever spotted a UFO. To my surprise he said yes. It was not all that uncommon he said for them to get an unidentified radar target out there, scramble fighters to intercept it, and then have the fighters be unable to get close to it. He certainly believed they existed. I didn't, until of course I met Sauerkraut, who clearly has been penetrated by aliens somewhere along the line.

[striperman36]

It's true even with afterburners, they would move even visually ways that a plane could not.
Thats all I can say about,

[jredfly]

I was suprised to see this thread. I was fishing the Mass South Shore last night betwwen 11:00 and 2:00, don't recall exactly what time it was but at one point the night sky flashed behind us like a street light just popped or exploded. We looked to the sky and you could see the concentrated flash. One of the guys said it was just a shooting star and I said I have seen shooting stars before runnig accross the sky but nothing like this concentrated bursting flash. We just decided to accept the shooting star theory and kept fishing.

[bart]

saw some weird stuff last night as well...

[Raven]

Originally Posted by nightfighter

So must be Bush's fault???

interesting that you'd say that Ross on this particular thread
only because..............

Bush had plans to have us return to the Moon by 2020
yet NASA has since scrapped those plans saying it was way too expensive and not feasible....

i find that to be very ODD !!!

that and i don't know if anyone read about this....

but all Meteors and Moon rocks have been
re- classified as TOP secret....

so it sure makes you wonder what they are up to

that and the fact that the space shuttle has a HUGE
cargo area for taking things into space
but what they are taking into space is usually classified

[Rob Rockcrawler]

If they are going to create clouds couldnt they do it on the full moon. Last night close to midnight i saw the brightest shooting star i have even seen on the canal. Looked blue and lasted for atleast 5 seconds, EXTREMELY bright, followed by another smaller one.

[Gobi]

I was fishing in Matunuck, looked up and saw this cloud. Bizarre to say the least.

Originally Posted by Brian L

Ahh, the artificial cloud! Makes sense now. There was a big cloud in the sky after it burned off.

[UPSmanMatt]

Saw the same thing from Jimmytown last night. Almost bright enough to read by.

[rizzo]

I also saw the cloud, I thought it was some sort of solar flare or super nova...

[nightprowler]

[On The Rocks]

Was on the south side of MTK Sat night...saw a bright white light that separated into 2 distinct sections and then slowly dispersed into a cloudy looking dull light...approx 8-9 pm.

[Vogt]

Originally Posted by nightprowler

Thats it. Saw it while near Watch Hill Saturday night.