Light over San Diego (Palomar Mountains), CA
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The report, as filed
i was up on Palomar mountain with my wife and we where doing some late night photography of light trails of the planes coming in and out of San Diego county when we saw a real bright flash we thot it was a shooting star but then the light dimed and where it was was a bright light just siting there and occasionally it flashed then it would go dark and it moved almost over head and flashed agen but it had travail from one spot to the next so fast there was no sound and it was to high and to fast to be a plane it stayed in that one spot for the next 2 min not moving and it would flash some times with 3 lights there was no color just the white light then just as fast as it was there it was gone about 30 sec later we both saw what looked like a shooting star cross the sky and it had started where we had last seen the light
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #153495). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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