Marin B
Active Member
Tonight at 7:15 I saw an orange light in the southeast sky at about a 45 degree angle. I live 15 miles north of San Francisco. The light appeared to be moving very slowly in a W/SW direction. I was at the bottom of my street and pulled over and got out of my car to look at it. I've lived here about 20 years and have never seen anything like it before. I drove the rest of the way home, just a couple more minutes and looked in the same general direction and saw an orange star in the sky, which may have been Betelgeuse according to the starmap on my phone. But what I saw at the bottom of my street appeared so much brighter and larger and seemed to be moving. So maybe what I thought was a moving orange object in the sky was an illusion from the haze and the moon (and perhaps my aging nightime vision)? I found no media reports of orange UFOs over San Francisco. I guess if it actually was Betelgeuse it will be there again tomorrow night at the same time, so unless I get a more convincing answer from someone here before then, I might be back there tomorrow night for a 2nd look. I'm attaching a photo of what I saw - though it just looks like an orange dot against a black sky . Bonus photo was taken about an hour later -contrail from a UPS flight 5X59.