Sorry in advance for the long post,
I haven't really been on this subreddit but this started bothering me again recently. Before I left walmart I was working the 5am shift. I'd leave the house when it was still dark. I loved the drive because the streets were clear the air was cool and the skies on a good day were very clear.
On this particular morning I hit the highway that went to work, and the sky was unusually clear, I mean it was like I could see every star in the sky, it was honestly fascinating. As I'm getting to the walmart, I see these three bright lights quite a ways in the sky.
Now I will try to explain this the best I can. When you are sitting and driving you see what is directly in front of you, and for the most part you can't look straight above you, so these lights were difficult to guage how far they are. But what I remember is how yellow these lights were. It wasn't like regulat white light, it was a very luminous yellow.
Now for the past year I rationalized it as this. I live near a military facility, maybe they were doing early morning drills. These lights were signal flares. That would explain how bright they were. The alternative is they were helicopters. What neither rationalization makes sense is the way they moved.
You see I am not aware of any flare that drops suddenly, then in an instant shoots back up into the air at incredible speeds. Then there is the question of the size. I know flares are bright, and I am aware that light works funny when it comes to perspective but they were far too big to be signal flares. Now I'm not saying they were huge, but they were of a decent size.
Now for the helicopter theory. So this military installation does house choppers. We see them all the time buzzing around the skies of the neighborhood, during the day. This was my first issue with them. In the year I worked thar shift I'd never seen the helicopters fly that early. So to explain this I said maybe it's a random training excersise. But for me, this is the issue. Why would they do such crazy maneuvers so close to a residential area. I mean the way they moved was insane. For the few minutes I observed them, they would coast around for a little, then just drop out of sight only to shoot back up and out of view at insane speeds just to drop back down and hover in place. It was like they were dancing around eachother.
I didn't want to write about this because I thought it was silly, and people would just tell me those were the helicopters, and you know maybe they were. But if there was a place to write about it I figured it would be here.
What prompted me to write about it was that new movie, Nope. My brother and I went to go see it, and the movie just bothered me. It's like it's just had me thinking more and more about what I saw thar night. What irritates me the most is I didn't film. I was so entranced by the lights, the way they moved, the early morning sky that I just didn't.
But yeah that's my story.
Submitted July 27, 2022 at 02:37AM by KapitanBoricua https://ift.tt/kLdPB7b
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