I feel a probing coming on. Dave On Jul 23, 2014, at 23:46, CenturyLink Customer <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
By the letters it is an "unidentified flying object" until it can be identified and I have seen one tonight and am posting what I saw on this board in hopes the VAST intelligence and experience of board members can figure out what it was.
My home is about 7000 South and 1.5 miles west from the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. I was looking west at around 11:00 tonight. I do not have trees in my back yard, so my view to the west is clear. I picked up the "object" on the edge of my neighbor's tree to the north. At first, it appeared to be the red flash of a firework, but it did not fade. Guessing - it traveled in pretty much a straight line from "about" 40th south to 80th south (north to south), where I lost sight of it behind another neighbor's tree to the south of my property It did appear to become slightly larger as it traveled from north to south.
Okay, now for the description. It was "Y" shaped. the tops of the "Y" appeared to be grey/silver, although I could not see anything from the tips to about the center of the "Y" which was definitely a red light - not flashing. Then from the center light there appeared to be an additional extended red light that did not go straight down, but slanted to the left. There were definitely two separate red lights. Altitude was low, so as to not be a plane, nor a helicopter. There were no flashing lights.
It occurred to me it might be a paraglider, but have never seen one at night so far from the mountains. Could have been a motorized paraglider.
So any guesses as to what I saw???????
No, I was not drinking. Nor tired, nor was I in a drug induced frame of mind.
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