Sailors at see learn quickly that you cannot tell at night what the distance is to a solitary light....or, therefore, how bright it might be.
On May 1, 2012, at 9:29 PM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: > I saw something strange in the sky tonight over Johnstown PA. It was a light > several times brighter than Venus. It was far away and appered just a little > bigger than point like. The diameter was bigger than a star. It was at an > angle of 70 degrees up in the sky south of Johnstonwn PA USA. If I had to > guess I would say 10,000 feet. The sky was clear. The moon and Venus were > showing. The time wave 8:50 PM. > > What attracted it me was its color. It was not the color of any aircraft > landing light. It was redish orange in color, sort of like the color of a 12 > volt incandescnet bulb run on 6 volts. The color was a good match for one of > those solar powered road signs. There was a road warning sign near by and I > matched the color. It was a good match. > > It did not move like an aircraft. It meandered around at a low velocity for > about one minute. Then it got dimmer and cycled off and on on random > intervals of about two second intervals.. An aircraft would have to be > traveling in circules to do this. Then it vanished. It had not moved for > its positon when it vanished. If it were a helocopter it should had still > been visible. > > > I know not what it was. > > > Frank Znidarsic
