Bright, unblinking low-altitude light in motion north of Beatty, Nevada
On August 25, 2009, at about 10:10 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, I was in the process of driving a moving van along Highway 95 in southern Nevada, perhaps six miles north of the town of Beatty, west of the Nevada Test Site, where the atom bombs are detonated, and a little distant from the eerie, top-secret air base at Area 51, which is on the eastern side. Beatty is the first place on the highway where they have legal brothels (which are illegal in Clark County, where most of the people are, but generously bear most of the taxes in rural Nevada).

Anyway, traffic had been light. Leaving Beatty and heading north, even the local traffic had disappeared. I was all alone in the night, half-listening to radio DJ George Noory. Noory promised his listeners a "UFO Extravaganza" after the commercial break.

George Noory is an American institution. He is almost-infinitely suggestible, gullible, and flattering to his guests, and is the perfect medium to broadcast rubbish stories of every variety and kind. I don't know how the country ever survived without him.

Suddenly to my left, I saw a light in the sky, heading south. The light looked like a very bright planet - like Venus - but in motion. I did a double-take, thinking it might have been a reflection in the driver's-side window of a stationary light located to the right of the truck, but that was not the case. Something was flying south through the air, not very high, and not very far away.

It is quite plausible that the light belonged to a small private airplane. There is a small airport located just south of Beatty, equipped with flashing beacons for nighttime travelers, and the airborne light was heading in that direction.

Still, private planes are supposed to be equipped with colored blinking lights for nighttime flight. This light was not blinking at all. Was the cockpit light on for some mysterious reason? If so, why were the external blinking lights off? That would be an unsafe condition, especially at low altitude! It was all very disturbing.

I spent the rest of the night driving through the jet-black darkness, craning my neck out the window and looking for brothels and aircraft. Sadly, there was no "UFO Extravaganza": the promise was over-hyped in typical George Noory fashion.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Fri 2 May 2014, 19:04, 6 replies)

Pacific Daylight Time you say.
How pacific of you.
(Andrew Avetoom, Fri 2 May 2014, 19:39, closed)

Piece of piss.
Skonnon battle cruser.
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Fri 2 May 2014, 22:17, closed)

A strange light in the sky near a top secret USAF base, you say.
Who would've thunk it?
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 3 May 2014, 0:36, closed)

Congratulations. You've seen a satelliite.
*Slow handclap*
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 3 May 2014, 0:55, closed)

This to win.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 3 May 2014, 12:02, closed)

Aircraft landing lights
and the coloured navigation lights might not have been seen in the excitement. Planes have white nav lights on the back too. Basically if you see any moving object in the sky within 30 miles of an airport, it's very likely just a plane.
( Ysol ab abl blap, Sat 3 May 2014, 12:22, closed)