Annual UFO over El Cajon makes Fourth of July appearance once again

CA, July 4, 2009 - 3 red lights over El Cajon, in triangular formation

My wife, parents and I were in the back yard to watch the Spring Valley fireworks at 9pm. Around 8:45 my mother said that she saw some red lights hovering over El Cajon.

The rest of us looked and saw 3 lights in a roughly triangular formation hovering high over El Cajon. They began to drift slowly south-eastward. I went inside and grabbed a pair of binoculars to look more closely at the lights but they didn't look much clearer though they were of an elongated triangular shape which I've seen before.

A fourth light appeared to the east and began to pace the 3 lights, and on top of a nearby hill (Dictionary Hill) we saw a red flaring light on the top that almost seemed to be signaling the lights.

Around 9pm, when the fireworks were to start, the triangular lights formed a line, and the middle light faded quickly away. I predicted that the lights would probably be gone by the end of the fireworks display, and sure enough, by 9:15, they were gone. I did a search online this morning, and saw that such red lights have been sighted over El Cajon on the 4th of July now every year since at least 2003. I have witnessed 2 other UFO phenomena in or above El Cajon in the last 15 years, just for the record.

CA, July 4, 2009 - thee flashing red dots stayed formed triangle and stayed in sky for over an hour; 4th joined eventually

Probably not alien life, but definitely and unidentified flying object. I live in El Cajon, the east county part of San Diego.

Last night was the 4th of July, so around 8:30 I went to this tiny church on a hill, it's where my friends and I go to just sit around basically, and there's a great view of San Diego from the spot. So we were up there waiting for fireworks and at about eight forty five one of us noticed three really bright red "dots" in the sky.

They were flickering, not like a plane would but not like stars either, simply getting brighter and dimmer and brighter and dimmer.

They simply sat in the sky for a minute or two, then started slowly moving, went directly over our heads, and eventually formed a very distinct triangle in front of us. Then after about fifteen minutes they seemed to disperse from each other again and headed in a different direction.

They moved slowly, about the speed they would go if they were drifting with wind currents, but they were moving with purpose. They moved away from us and got dimmer but were definitely still there.

I'd guess that there was probably a light on one side of the object, and it rotated the light away from us making it seem duller. Anyway, as they moved away, a fourth red object rose into our sights (it was blocked by the church until that point), and this one was as bright as the other three had originally been which makes me think that it had the light facing towards us?

A few of my friends said that they saw one of the objects "drop" something dark, but I didn't see this.. A few also said that it looked like there was something "behind" the red lights, but I wear contacts which hinders my ability to pick out things like that.

I ended up going home about when the 4th light came, which was probably around 9:15. I googled the red lights, and it seems like people have seen something very similar to them on the 4th of July in 2007 and 2008. So maybe they are some kind of government aircraft out there to regulate fireworks? I really don't know, I just know that these were not any kind of planes or flying object I had ever seen before.