UFO Examiner readers had plenty to say about the annual UFO sighting at El Cajon, California, in a recent story - Annual UFO over El Cajon makes Fourth of July appearance once again.
Melinda Clegg - Watching the Spring Valley fireworks with a group of about 20 strangers, under the freeway overpass, we all witnessed the odd trio of red lights & the 4th light off to the side also. I have actually seen 1 of these red lights on one other occasion. From my front yard on Harbinson Ave. in La Mesa on New Years Eve 2008-2009 I saw 1 red light identical to these 4. I woke my husband up to get a witness. He was not impressed & went back to bed. I lost sleep over it, & haven't forgotten about it. It was just at midnight & stayed stationary in the sky for about 15 minutes & appeared to be over El Cajon, or towards the Laguna Mtns. (as it was not possible to judge distance). I want an explanation. Think probably practical joke.
Dave - Could they have been flares tied to a balloon? ww w.azfamily.com/news/homepagetopstory/stories/Phoenix_local_news_042108_new-lights-sightings.895be60f.html
David Adams - This sounds like a good sighting; multiple witnesses reporting the same phenomenon from different vantage points is rare... but the purpose behind it still seems to be to attract attention.
Troy - We saw the same set of lights one our way home on the 4th. They initially appeared to be planes following the same landing route as most planes over Mt. Helix. However the non-blinking lights and silence as they approached indicated otherwise. They were as they approached from the west, they were in a straight line and then appeared to have three form a triangle while the fourth continued on its path. While the first reaction is to think they were UFOs, it seems to be a distinct possibility they could have been flares attached to weather balloons as they all seemed to evacuate / vanish at approximately the same time. Flares tied to weather balloons could have given off the same characteristics and been a common recent hoax. I tend to think this moreso since we didn't witness any abrupt or erratic movements of the lights. Rather they hovered and ultimately disappeared. Did anyone see otherwise?
Tonie - Saw the same thing. About 12 of us watched them move slowly toward us, then right when they past over head, they stopped and hovered in one spot in the sky for about 15 min. and then one by one started to dimmed and then flickered out "weird!!!!!"
Sue - A group of us in La Mesa also saw same lights in direction of El Cajon. Looked like two pulsating red and one green in large stationary formation (about 10 minutes) at 8:30 - then left to observe fireworks so did not see them leave.
Jeremy - I saw them just before 9:00pm along with my mother-in-law. We checked them out with binoculars, and the light looked very "electronic" in nature...not like a flame or fire source. These weren't your typical airplane lights though...no blinking...no alternating colored lights...very strange. I've lived in El Cajon since 2003, and this is my first time sighting them.
Sarah - My husband and I, along with our two best friends, too, saw the lights from the top of San Carlos Street in Spring Valley. Definitely unidentified flying objects. Strangest thing we ever saw.
Doug - I live SE of El Cajon and saw only one red light high in the sky at about 45-50'. Although the lower lights would have been blocked by houses. It was at 9:05pm and very far away. I grabbed my Meade telescope and the light was 100% red, not Mars. It was not an airplane as it didn't blink and moved so slowly I didn't think it was moving at all. But after studying it I could tell it did move from S to N about the speed the moon moves. The closest thing it could have been is a flare, but it would have had to have been miles up and very stationary. It really looked like a red satellite about the brightness of Ceres but 100% red???
Lin - I also saw the same red "lights" in El Cajon on July 4th-2009 around 8:30 pm. I have been on the internet all day trying to find out what they were. Why hasn't the news picked this up and solved the mystery for us?
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ive just seen this light literally just right now july 7 950 p.m it was red moved very slowly from west to east.it seemed to be too high in altitude to be a plane or helicopter
Last night july/7/09 between 10:30 PM and 12:00 AM my wife mentioned a very bright light up in the sky, with out any movement. She also said she had seen the same light the prior night. I took my binoculars and got a closer look, at what it seemed to be a sphere or an eclipse shape object surrounded by bright lights all around. I believe we spend about two hours looking into the sky for any type of movement or change. However it never moved, but it did change shape from time to time during the time we spent looking at it. To be honest with everyone I had never seen anything like this before. Hawthorne, CA.
You people are so dumb, it was me !!!!! I had my kites upt that day, but the bat ran out
Yea my son and I were at gillespie field when my son pointed it out to me we watched for about 10min and then they just faded out.It was real Im not a big fan of ufo but there it is.Could not have been flares,kites,balloons the upper atmosphere would have moved them sorry no explanation.
to the people who claim they saw the three red lights in the sky above el cajon ca area.....my husband and I just saw them tonight, about 12:03 new years, shape of a triangle, then slowly faded one by one. if you want to talk and compare stories, please email us doglover619@yahoo.com thank you.
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