Appearance / Description of Object(s)

The objects seemed to be pure light, or so bright their luminence obscured any solid physical attributes. They were roughly diamond shaped, like spiral galaxies seen edge-on.

Size of Object(s)

The largest would probably fit within a one centimeter gap between my fingers. Actual size is very difficult to estimate, though I suspect, if they were indeed objects, they had to be fairly large -- they seemed to be a great distance away. Radiosity against the mountains would have helped me devise a better estimate, however the light show did not seem to affect its surrounding environs at all.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Several miles at least. Not farther.

Description of Area / Surroundings

It's primarly an industrial area rimmmed by military installations such as Moffett Airfield. Many noncommercial or otherwise unusual aircraft come in and out of Moffett, but this sighting was over a range of mountains a fair distance from the base (which is anyway decommissioned).

Full Description & Details

It had to be about 8:00 PM, Halloween night. Cold, clear. A friend and I were walking liesurely toward his car when I noticed strange, white lights above the not-too-distant mountains. They had the character of landing lights, so I was quick to dismiss them as such. Suddenly, though, they winked out completely -- and blossomed back to luminence over a different part of the mountain. A plane could not have covered this distance so quickly. By now my friend was watching, too. We stood transfixed for several minutes, the lights pulsating momentarily in one spot, only to recede and reappear in a totally different position.

The show lasted a good while, perhaps twenty minutes, before we decided to depart.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

There is a baseball field within the area of the sighting, and I speculated that the lights might be someone testing the field lights, one bank at a time, however they still do not seem large enough to produce what I saw, nor are they high enough off the ground.

Witness Background

Conceptual artist.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I'm generally a skeptical atheist. The Carl Sagan variety. I am by no means a sensationalist or someone easily impressed by mysticism or conspiracy theories. I am very suspicious of most UFO witnesses, mostly because I can't fit their inferred "versions" of the world into my reality. The genuine presence of UFOs and/or extraterrestrial beings on our planet, and specifically the collusion and connivance of governments to keep them "under wraps," seems absurd. Yet this is not my first sighting.

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