Date: December 28, 2011
Time: Approx: 10:15 p.m.
Hey Brian Vike, a friend of mine sent me your site. Here is what I saw last night driving home from a dinner party down town Ahseville, to my home in Weaverville on Merrimon Ave. near Beaver Lake.
I was driving home, heading north on Merrimon Ave. When I got in front of the Ingles and Fresh Markets I could see all the lights up on Reynolds Mtn. development and was amazed at how bright some of the Christmas lights were on top.
They moved and I closed my eyes thinking it was my vision, and being night while driving. In front of the library and bird sanctuary I realized it wasn't Christmas lights or airplane lights, which blink red and white.
These large street light size balls of light were bright orange. They kept a perfect formation of a very large square, as if attached to one another.
I pulled off the nearest side street, cut off my car and got out and watched them in silence. As there were no other cars on the street. I was alone. As I watched in silence, suddenly, as they were over Beaver Lake, I saw from the east a streak of light that reminded me of a shooting star (also orange), and it streaked in front of the square formation.
Then all the lights faded into the mist and disappeared.
On the rest of my drive home, I could plainly recognize other normal airplanes in the night sky with their blinking flight lights. Not the same as the orange ones.
I heard no engine sounds while standing watching. So I am not sure what I saw, but it was unusual enough for me to question it and the orange stood out as unusual too.
