This past Sunday morning 11/03/03 approximately
4:15 AM - 4:30 AM New York Time, as is usual for me, I was unable
to sleep I took my dog Shade out into my backyard for a walk.
It was over cast and I was noticing how the street lights reddened
their bottoms when I spotted a cluster of lights in the western
sky.
Being that it was cloudy, these objects had to be either below
the clouds or in them. At first I thought that I was looking
at Jupiter and its moons for that is what they reminded me of
but then it dawned on me, "Since when can you see the moons
of Jupiter without your binoculars and through clouds at that?"
When I thought of this, I rushed back inside
to get my binoculars thinking I could get a better view of these
objects with them.
What was strange was that the binoculars didn't make much of
a difference for although they made them look bigger, I still
could not make out any real or useful definition to the object,
other than there was a large bright central orb with five smaller
lights about it.
I made these objects in my animations appear
larger in the picture than they were in life so that you can
see what they looked like they were much smaller to my eyes,
yet I could see how many there were with my naked eyes. Please
understand, I am diabetic, near sighted and am developing cataracts,
but through the binoculars they looked as I saw them with my
bare eyes. To me without the binoculars they were the size as
you see them in my animation. With the binoculars they were half
the size they are in the JPEG.
What it was, or they were, I do not know.
However, I do know that it was or they were in the clouds or
behind them, but yet I could clearly see there was a cluster
of them.
They never changed their positions, and flashed or twinkled in
unison, but yet I know that stars twinkle and planets don't.
They were in a configuration that I have never seen stars in
before, and kind of reminded me of The Eiffel Tower on a tilt.
Its tip pointed to the East. Still they did remind me of the
Moons of Jupiter, but I have never been able to see the moons
of Jupiter with out binoculars. They to me were at the two o'clock
position in the western sky. They were the only objects visible
in the sky even where the clouds were thin no stars could been
seen because of the alto stratus clouds above the lower cumulonimbus
and cumulus clouds.
If anyone reading this saw this object, or these objects, or has an idea as to what they were other than the obvious UFOs I believe them to be please contact me.