Skeptic Project

Last night at approximately 8:30 PM (Pacific time) I was cooking dinner on the grill just outside my apartment. My boyfriend was outside smoking a cigarette but I saw him wander into the little street in front of our apartment. When I went out to the patio he said, "Come look at this," and pointed to a light in the sky.

It was a large light, orange, and flickering. It was about the size and brightness of Venus on a summer evening. It made me think immediately of fire and my first thought is that it was a plane with an engine on fire. We didn't hear any plane noise. It was moving in an easterly direction I guess, much slower than a plane or helicopter, and it seemed to be moving somewhat erratically. We heard no engine noise or any noise at all. It was overcast last night and this object was obviously below the clouds. We watched it for probably three minutes or so--long enough for me to take the meat off the grill, go inside, and come back out--and then lost it behind the trees.

My thoughts were:
1. Aircraft engine flame-out. This thing definitely looked like fire. We didn't hear engine noise, though, and it wasn't moving in a straight line.
2. Space junk re-entering. It seemed too low, though, left no contrail (as a space object would do in the lower atmosphere), and again wasn't moving in a straight line.

I was puzzled enough about this to call my dad, a 30 year Air Force veteran pilot. He said he didn't think it was an engine flame-out but couldn't guess what it was. (I guess the Illuminati got to him).

I've been scanning local news sites this morning for reports of a downed plane or space junk visible in the area but have found nothing. I live in Eugene, Oregon.

I did, however, find this on a UFO site:
http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-national/three-orange-lights-hover-low-near-eugene-oregon</p>

This report has a few similarities to what I saw, but also a few differences.

Do you think I should report this, and if so, to whom?

There's the UFO reporting center, but they don't really verify details, so it's flooded with all kinds of nutty shit.

No.

Figures.

Damn CT'ers, they ruin everything.

Wish you would of got some video footage of that. For all we know it could be anything but sounds like ti fall under the UFO category.

As I recall reading a comment regarding those recent balloons over New York:

Why didn't they send up a helicopter and PROVE it wasn't a UFO!? IT MUST BE THEREFORE UNDOUBTEDLY I CONCUR WITH BIG WORDS!

Sky lantern--you know what, that's probably what it was.

I just looked up some stuff on these and it appears entirely consistent with what we saw.

Thanks, Sky!

Muertos said it didn't make any noises though, right? If it was the work of Nanos we would have heard the distinct eco-friendly "beep beep" of his new Lunar-powered aerial bike horn.

Nope. I smelled top sirloin, because that's what I was cooking.

Top sirloin and cabernet sauvignon. Good combination.

licorice? maybe if I drink NyQuil.