This morning I flew the Hawk Sky. This is the oldest plane I have and it is showing signs of wear and tear. About a year ago it crashed in a tree and the outer half of one wing got sheared off. I repaired it and modified it and it hasn't taken any crash damage since then but the ailerons were coming loose. I made hinges from reinforced packing tape. I painted the undersides of the outer wing panels dark blue and that helps with orientation. This plane has a lot of tape reinforcement and a spruce spine, all adding to the weight. But it still flies great and will go as high as I want. In the early evening, about 4:30 PM, the weather was still very calm and clear, so I took out the Firebird Stratos. I flew it really high as well. With the plane near the zenith, in a perfectly clear sky, I noticed something odd in the background. I represented it as well as I could in this picture I made in a drawing program:
This is what I had in my field of view, as well as I can recreate it. The upper dot was dark red, not a light source, and seemed extended, as a circle or sphere. Two smaller blue dots, darker than the sky but brighter, clearly light sources, were below the red "object". I was wearing grey polarized sunglasses. I moved my head to be sure that I was not seeing spots on my lenses. The objects seemed stationary in the sky. I kept my RC plane in a position that allowed me to keep these three things in view while I removed my sunglasses. Without the sunglasses, the blue lights were not visible. I guess I managed to keep these things in view for about 30 seconds. Then I had to attend to my airplane. When I got a chance to look back, they were gone. I guess I had a UFO experience while flying RC! Surely that doesn't happen every day... just before I noticed these things, something that I took to be a high-flying aircraft, a jet by the sound of it, passed through the patch of sky where these three things appeared a few minutes later. Maybe something was jettisoned? It isn't unusual to see commercial jets flying overhead. In clear weather, if there's no contrail, you can faintly make out the wings. I'm pretty sure an ordinary jet aircraft flew over earlier, since the tiny moving white dot I tracked briefly in this area had the look of an airliner at a great distance. What the other things were, I have no idea.
This is what I had in my field of view, as well as I can recreate it. The upper dot was dark red, not a light source, and seemed extended, as a circle or sphere. Two smaller blue dots, darker than the sky but brighter, clearly light sources, were below the red "object". I was wearing grey polarized sunglasses. I moved my head to be sure that I was not seeing spots on my lenses. The objects seemed stationary in the sky. I kept my RC plane in a position that allowed me to keep these three things in view while I removed my sunglasses. Without the sunglasses, the blue lights were not visible. I guess I managed to keep these things in view for about 30 seconds. Then I had to attend to my airplane. When I got a chance to look back, they were gone. I guess I had a UFO experience while flying RC! Surely that doesn't happen every day... just before I noticed these things, something that I took to be a high-flying aircraft, a jet by the sound of it, passed through the patch of sky where these three things appeared a few minutes later. Maybe something was jettisoned? It isn't unusual to see commercial jets flying overhead. In clear weather, if there's no contrail, you can faintly make out the wings. I'm pretty sure an ordinary jet aircraft flew over earlier, since the tiny moving white dot I tracked briefly in this area had the look of an airliner at a great distance. What the other things were, I have no idea.
