Case 47

Date: 2009-04-20
Location: CR
Brief Description: A series of what looked like 4 white large stars in a line. Much larger than any stars in the sky.
Full Description: I went out on my balcony and saw what looked like 4 large stars in a straight horizonal line. The white lights were not touching, but were close together. They did not blink. At first the lights were not moving. I went in the house to get my binoculars, and noticed the time on the t.v. menu was 1:17am. I looked through the binoculars, but all I could see were the 4 lights that looked like giant stars. I wondered if I was viewing a jet. I live 2 plus hours from San Jose, but jets travel the same flight path which is from north to south then loop east. They are making an approach into San Jose with their landing lights on and are lower than other jets I see at other times. This object did not have the red or green lights that I've seen on jets, and it's lights did not flicker like the white lights on a jet. I did not see the shape of this object. I don't know if these were 4 objects or 1. I am thinking it was a single object and if it were, it would be much larger than any jet I have ever seen in the sky. The width, based soley on the lights, would be more than 1 1/2 times wider than a jet. In the beginning the object did not move, then it started to move slowly, like the same speed a jet would fly, and was following the same path a jet normally takes toward the airport. Traveling south, then making a loop away from me in a south east path, but then it just stopped. It stayed put for awhile and then rather than disappearing east, it headed back north. As it got back to it's origional location where I had first seen it, it stopped for a few minutes and then it shot off in a north west direction. The speed that this thing went was very fast. It was gone in less than 2 seconds from my view. No aircraft can travel that fast. I went back inside and looked at the time and it was 2:10am. No airplane or jet remains in my view for more than a minute when they are approaching the airport or just flying overhead. I saw the same thing this past Sunday at around 4:00 am. I saw it from my balcony again and this time it was more to the north. I saw it just sitting their for a very brief time and then it shot very fast to the west. I can see Arenal volcano from my property and it shot off in that direction both times I saw it. I told no one here about my experience. I am the only American around here and I didn't want the locals to think I was crazy. But today when my maid came over to clean, she told me that her son, brother in law, and one of her sister's saw a 'ovni' (ufo) fly over my house toward Fortuna on Saturday night at 6pm. She said it was going slowly and was a long white cigar shaped object. I then told that I had seen a ufo twice. Only when she asked me when, did I realize that their was something strange about both sightings. I don't normally walk out on my balcony at 1am. I don't know why I went out there and looked up at the sky at that time. I don't even remember waking up. I have a lot of animals. I don't have an alarm clock, but my inside dogs wake me up with barking every morning between 5:30am and 6:00am. When they start barking, the outside dogs start barking. So in the morning, I am not walking out on the balcony looking at the sky. If I went out the balcony at 4:00am, the dogs would start barking, which they did on Sunday. I normally jump out of bed, and rush the already prepared dog food out to the dogs. I try to hurry so the dogs aren't disturbing my neighbors. I have woke up at 4:00am before, but I am careful not to get out of bed which would alert the dogs. So I found it odd in retrospect, that I would go out on the balcony at both those times and look up in the sky. I will admit, part of me has always wanted to see a UFO, but at the same time ufos aren't something I think about much and my logical side says that most sightings probably have a logical explaination. When I saw this thing the first time, I thought, maybe it looks likes it's still because it's moving away from me. Yet the lights weren't getting smaller. Or maybe it's not a jet but 4 planes flying in formation and they aren't landing so they don't have on the flashing white lights and red lights that I normally see. Or maybe it's 4 helicopters. I have no idea what kind of lights a helicopter has, but it would explain how what I was seeing was remaining in one position in the sky. Only when the object(s) moved away at that incredible speed could I find no logical reason to explain that. As far as my feelings and reactions, I don't think I really had any dramatic reaction. At best I was curious, but their was no fear or astonishment. I would have thought I would have been more excited about it all. That I would have called someone back in the states and told them what I was seeing, but I didn't. I can't even remember what I did once it was gone. I guess I just noted the time and went back to bed. I've gotten more excited about trying to identify snake species I find around here.
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Source: MUFON