Saw an interesting light today

On my way home today I saw a light in the sky, at first I thought it was Sirius because of its location and brightness.

This wasn't the case as it then moved across the sky at quite a fast pace, the white light turned red and started pulsing and fading out. I watched it for about another five minutes until I could no longer see it. The pulsing red light was not that of a plane, a plane light usually blinks on and off quickly. The one I witnessed was much slower.

Anyone witnessed anything like this?

I'd have taken photographs but my dog kind of eat my blackberry and the camera no longer works!

reply to post by CaptainCharisma


Hey there,

I think I may have seen the same thing twice ... 1st time was Oct 31st (about 10pm) ... the 2nd time was a couple of nights ago. I have mentioned it briefly a couple of times but not started a thread (on either occasion) because I had no phone or camera with me to take pictures.

On the 1st occasion I also thought it was Sirius but then I realized it was not in the correct place ... it turned from blue/white to deep red and moved west across the sky from it's southerly position then it stopped and came back to it's original point ... turned back to blue/white and gradually got smaller and smaller until it was only a pin-prick of light then faded out (no clouds).

Then the other night I'd just taken the dog out for her last walk (approx 00:30am) and when I looked up there it was ... like a huge deep red star twinkling like crazy (much bigger than a regular star) ... it didn't move this time but it did get smaller and smaller before fading out again ... as before it was a clear night with no clouds.

This time I went back into the house and got my son to come and see it ... across to the east there was a plane with a blinking red light but it was much smaller than the red 'star in the south and it wasn't moving this time at all before it began to fade.

Never seen anything like it before except these two occasions.

The reason I've responded here is because I noticed you are in Yorkshire the same as me (I'm in North Yorkshire) !

Woody

reply to post by woodwytch


Thank you for the response, cool to see another member saw the same thing and in Yorkshire.

I'm from Hull, where in N. Yorkshire are you located? Let me know if you see anything like this in the future = )

reply to post by CaptainCharisma


Hey there CC,

Certainly seems to be more than a coincidence ... I'm in a small market town on the edge of the moors about 7miles north of Pickering.

Woody