A few years ago me and my cousins felt like sleeping in the backyard on my trampoline. This actually turned out to be a bad idea because all the morning dew got us wet and I felt like I peed my pants. Anyways, I woke up around 4 am and looked up and say these lights in the sky. There were a bunch, but not all at once...more drawn out during the hour. They were about the size of a star you can see in the sky and they were flying about and turning at sharp angles. One of them appeared to be "swimming", that is to say, imagine it accelerating, then slightly decelerating, then accelerating again in a line back and forth like swimming underwater from one side of a pool to the other. I'm not necessarily implying extraterrestrial beings, but does anyone know what these could be? I was thinking satellites...but I'm not too sure.

Sometimes red blood cells (I could have that part wrong, somebody correct me if so) can escape and enter into the conjuctivae of your eye producing these little "lights" swimming around.

Oh, and welcome to the group

No, it wasn't that. The lights didn't follow where my eye went, and plus my brother and cousin saw them as well.

Hi Kevin:

I think what you saw could've been ball lightning.

I was thinking ball lightning as well, but it was a clear morning and as far as I know ball lightning only appears in thunderstorms and I don't think it would have appeared in the quantity I saw.

That is pretty funny...

It is really hard to say there are plenty of satellites that move quickly through the sky, as well as the occasion glimpse that you can get of the space station under the correct conditions. I am not sure what to think of the "swimming" effect other than to say that the human eye can do some odd things when staring at an object for a long time. When I used to have a telescope, or used binoculars to look at nebulae I noticed that aafter a while my eyes would kind of twitch a bit. I don't know if that is normal or not, but it did kind of produce and odd movement of things that I knew where stationary...

Unidentified flying objects -what else?

Okay Kevin did not see ball lightning and he did not have "eye floaters" either. I have seen ball lightning or earth lights and they stay
relatively close to the ground. I have seen the exact same thing that he saw as well. There is no explanation for what the two of us
have seen in by conventional physics or known phenomena. I saw only one object as he describes here. It appeared almost directly
overhead, appeared as a star in brightness and size. This object flew in a straight line from the initial starting point of almost
directly over my viewing angle, and went at a very fast speed toward the south. When it got about halfway to the horizon
it did a zig zag pattern at tremendous speed and then flew straight out into space! It didn't go over the horizon, but went
outward at an angle until it was no longer visible. Now, satellites do not zig zag, and they do not appear to change directions
in the blink of an eye either. Eye floaters do not move at tremendous speeds, or zig zag, or turn in right angles like Kevin saw.

All I can say to people that try to put conventional explanations forth, is that until you actually see something for yourself, you
won't gain any ground in the attempt to explain it. You have to be there and see it for yourself. When you do see something,
you try to explain it as this or that all by yourself. Trust me, we put it through all possible scenarios when we see these things.
It is only when all of the reasonable explanations are eliminated, that we have to say that we have seen something "unknown".
It is also nearly impossible for "us" as the witnesses to convey what we saw to anyone else. We saw it in 3 dimensions, and
to draw it puts it into two dimensions. To explain it with words, is about impossible to put it into your "mind's eye" also.
You almost have to see it for yourself to make you understand how disconcerting it is!

I have seen things many many times and had all kinds of phenomenon that are hard to explain happen to me and others
in the family. I quit trying to explain things to others, as I know there are no words or proof available to convince
people of the incidents. If I had a photo of it, dis-believers would say it is photoshopped right? If I had a video, they
would claim it was faked. In other words, there is no way for experiencer's to convince non-believers! You have to
see it for yourself to understand the dilemma. Once you are thrust into being on the believer's side, you will find (as
I have) that you will never convince anyone who does not want to believe into believing.

Now for some tips for you non-believers. There are millions that have seen things, and billions that have not. I will give
you some tips on how to see things if you want to make the attempt. I hate to bring this story up.. but it demonstrates
how NOT to see something. My sister in law, myself, my brother, and a few friends were all sitting out by our pool
one night talking and having a mini party out in the yard. As they were talking I would look up into the night sky.
I suddenly saw a falling star, and told them "there goes a falling star".. More talk went on and I saw yet another one.
My sister in law then piped up and told me that she had never seen a falling star in all her life. I watched her as
she talked to her friends, and then I just had to say to her.. "One thing is certain.. you won't ever see one unless
you look up into the sky. A falling star is not going to come between you and Sandy for you to see.. If you want
to see one, you are going to have to tilt your head back and look up." So she finally did see one years later
when I told her to go out and watch the annual Leonid meteor showers. But my point here for you non-experiencers,
is that in order to see strange things, you are gonna have to look at the sky and be aware of your surroundings
at all times. I highly doubt that a ufo is gonna land in your livingroom between you and your television set or
between you and your computer! You may just have to go outside and lay down and watch the sky for hours
on end. If you are lucky, you may be in the right place at the right time when one appears. Most all of the ones
I have seen were because I was observant of my surroundings. When driving, scan the horizons as you drive.
I saw two that way! Look up when you are outside! I have seen about three or four from that method.

So team, here are your instructions. Until you have seen something like Kevin has seen (and I have seen)
please realize that we already put the possibilities for conventional explanation through our own brains and
it did not fit any of those possibilities. We don't want there to be weird things anymore than you either.
We didn't want to see them necessarily, we just did. We can't explain a 3 dimensional happening in any
words that will make it work in your mind either. There are no words. You had to be there! Now it is
up to you to go out and see something for yourself! Then your mission is to try to convince someone
else that you saw something that you can't explain.. Then sit back and see how many people try to
explain it for you and miss the mark so much that you just have to sigh.

Okay, so you have made the commitment to be more observant of your surroundings in a 360 degree
pattern whenever possible. You will look up both day and night from now on. You have even decided
to lay down at night and look up into the sky. All of the sudden you see this starlike object going
across the sky way high up.. You watch it carefully as it goes in a straight line way up high. Now
as you watch it get about straight overhead it dissappears like magic! You think "where did it go?"
"How can that be?" The object has dissappeared right in mid flight! You have just seen a satellite.
As long as it is just after sunset when you are viewing this, you have seen a satellite so don't
get too excited. The reason it disappeared is because the sunlight that it was reflecting is now
over the horizon too far for it to catch the sunlight anymore to reflect back to you.

Another time you are watching and all of the sudden you see this flash from
way above the earth, and it keeps flashing at regular intervals and finally quits.. Nope, it's
just a spinning satellite, reflecting the sun at you as it turns. If you see a huge flash that lights
up the entire sky like daylight, then you have seen a bolide, which is a large sized meteorite
that has exploded in the atmosphere (i've seen that three times so far).


Okay troops those are a few tips
for you so that you don't think you are seeing weird stuff. Now go out and find the real weird ones
and report back to this site.

Most convential excuse's for what was seen are themselves suspect, as they have nothing to do with what was seen{experiance} only a denial for what happened{what was viewed} the light is an indication that there is something that can control compacted mass's of energy{probe} Which can see and view us.

I've seen odd lights too. One time I was fishing around midnight. I looked up at the sky and noticed one light moving, it looked like a star, I figured it was a satellite. Then it went in between these two "stars", or fixed points of light that looked like stars. After it got ahead of the fixed points, they started to move too so it looked like 3 lights moving in a triangular formation. I really don't know what it could have been, but to me it was unidentifiable. I really do think it was not of this world based on some other experiences and some other things I saw in the sky.

What you describe is exactly what I've seen many times in the sky, not doing something "special" though.. only passing by slowly but I've seen one closer from above that ended my doubts, it was watching me, I'm pretty sure of that..
Like red spectre, I also think they're not from this world.

I don't think anything was following me...I just saw a bunch of these lights flying about in the early morning.

Interesting experience. I've no idea as to what this could have been.

Why did you want to sleep on a trampoline?

Just for fun, I guess. Like I said, it turned out to be a bad idea.

Oh, and if it helps, the lights looked like those in the NASA video where the light appears to bounce off the atmosphere. They moved just like that. But I doubt it was space debris, as I'm pretty sure it was within the atmosphere.

Looked very much like this (but I didn't see so many at once):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diA5lvUqPgY