Lights in the sky

[Woldan]

First of all, I'm not an UFO fanatic, I'm not an alcoholic and I'm not aware of any brain or eye injuries that might make me see things that don't exist. Ok? Good.

So, I've regularly been seeing strange lights in the night sky, with regularly I mean when the weather was good 3-4 each night almost every night in the past 4 years (Since I moved from the city to a rural area where stars are very visible thanks to almost zero light pollution) My neighbors and friends have seem them too.
Lights? Like planes and stuff? Nope. Lights that look exactly like those less visible stars in the night sky, with the only exception that they move.

Oh yeah, thats comet, the ISS, a satellite or a piece of space junk entering earths atmosphere you doofus.
Well, last time I checked space junk, satellites and rocks couldn't stay stationary for a few minutes and then accelerate to blistering speeds pretty much instantly. Or fly turns or zig-zag maneuvers. 
That also rules out high altitude military aircraft, those g-forces would rip apart the plane and its crew if it were able to fly that kind of maneuvers. I#m talking about near-instant stops and acceleration. 

Since I believe what I'm seeing is a simple natural phenomena I'd like to hear your ideas about what you think what I'm seeing.  

 

 

I was thinking about car headlights reflecting on clouds or fog, but  they're way too small for headlights and whenever I saw those lights the sky was crystal-clear, this also rules out laser shows. 

 

Someone said I might be seeing fireflies or fluorescent bugs, but I've seen those lights in winter too. 

[rjshae]

Laser pointers? Birds at a high altitude? Drones?

 

Perception can be a tricky thing, particularly at night; what you think are sudden stops and starts may just be caused by the viewing angle and a lack of depth perception.

[Woldan]

Doubt it that its a bird or a drone, whatever it is its clearly illuminated or its flying that high that it reflects the light of the sun. Birds or aircraft also could never fly maneuvers like that, the only animal that could do that would be a dragonfly. 

I once managed to take a look at one of those lights with my binoculars, the light barely got bigger with the power cranked up all the way to 16x, all I saw was a white globe, and this means the object was either VERY small or traveling at extremely high altitude.

Also the object was flickering like the surrounding stars, the flickering is caused by different pressure layers of air moving so this too indicates that it was high up there. 

 

 

True, when it stops the light could be traveling upwards and so it appears to me that it is not traveling at all but I saw some of those lights stay for a couple of minutes without getting dimmer or changing their illumination in any way which supports my assumption that they weren't  moving. 

Edited June 7, 2013 by Woldan

[Hurlshort]

You and your neighbors are probably too close to some power lines, and it is causing a degenerative eye disorder that makes you see weird things.

[LadyCrimson]

Lead paint in all the homes?

 

....I've occasionally seen weird things in the sky, but they've never seemed anything other than very high flying planes or falling stars/meteors or something. I think it's also difficult for many of us to really judge speed/distance when looking way up there. Along with possible oddball reflections or something. But if you stop posting for months or something, I'll assume you've been skyjacked ....

[Gorth]

Things flying straight towards you may appear "stationary" at high altitude. If you're lucky it will burn up or do a "curve ball" away from your position in case it reaches the lower atmosphere.

 

Well, that's (one of) Gorths "rational" explanation(s).

 

Edit: Not really related, but quite impressive none the less. A rare Aussie phenomena, the "fire tornado". I can understand if my ancestors might have attributed divine powers to such displays from nature.

 

[Orogun01]

Show us on the doll were the aliens probed you.

[HoonDing]

Weather balloons?

[Walsingham]

Things flying straight towards you may appear "stationary" at high altitude. If you're lucky it will burn up or do a "curve ball" away from your position in case it reaches the lower atmosphere.

 

Well, that's (one of) Gorths "rational" explanation(s).

 

Edit: Not really related, but quite impressive none the less. A rare Aussie phenomena, the "fire tornado". I can understand if my ancestors might have attributed divine powers to such displays from nature.

 

 

And this is why I won't live in Australia.

 

Invite some UFO watchers to your place and scam them in some fashion while they are boggling at the lights. At least you get a win out of it.

[BruceVC]

Woldan are you sure someone didn't give you a small piece of paper that would have had an animal picture on it? You may have thought it was a stamp and licked it.....think back...are you sure?

 

[Malcador]

And this is why I won't live in Australia.

God created Australia to test the faithful.

[Amentep]

This looks like a job for Fortean Times!

 

...because I have no clue.  Some stuff we see probably will never have satisfactory explanations.

[BruceVC]

 

And this is why I won't live in Australia.

God created Australia to test the faithful.

 

 

[Walsingham]

 

And this is why I won't live in Australia.

God created Australia to test the faithful.

 

One cannot go against the Word of God.

[Woldan]

I just watched one with friend for ten minutes, it was bright like the Venus and jumped, turned, made quick zig-zag maneuvers and changed directions until it vanished in the horizon. NO way thats a comet bouncing off earths atmosphere.  Will-o'-the-wisps in the sky?

Edited June 7, 2013 by Woldan

[rjshae]

That sounds pretty much like a bat being illuminated by some light source. Their flight motions can appear erratic when they're chasing bugs.