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Date of Sighting: January 1, 2008Time of Sighting: 12:30 PM PSTDate Sighting Reported: January 2, 2008Duration of Sighting: Video of Objects is Less Than 2 MinutesLocation of Sighting: Clairmont, California (Suburub to North of Diego)Latitude: 32.83 Degrees NorthLongitude: 117.19 Degrees WestNumber of Witnesses: Several (Exact Number Unknown.)Weather: Clear Skies. Good Visibility. Surface Winds Were Calm. Winds up to5,000 Feet Started From a Northeasterly Direction at About 8 MPH at 1,000Feet and Then Directionally "Veered" to a Southeasterly Direction and theSpeed Increased to 17 MPH at 5,000 Feet.Description: Refer to witness audio in the above video. The witnesses statedthat they were having a New Year's party and saw the lights moving towardsthe west. They took some video footage. (Apparently some still photos werealso taken.) The witnesses stated that 9 lights were visible. The videoappears to show 7 lights meaning some of the lights may not have fit intothe video frame.Comments: The video fits the description by other independent groups of witnesses in the San Diego area. The media (Fox 6 News) has proposed thatthe lights could have been Chinese Lanterns. Chinese Lanterns are launchedon New Years as part of tradition. They are illegal in most areas because offire danger. They can rise to about 5,000 feet and will drift with the wind.The movement of the lights was with the wind. This does not mean that thelights were Chinese Lanterns. I think it quite possible that the same groupof lights were visible in the San Francisco Bay area and the San Diego area only minutes apart. (The San Francisco sightings occurred only minutes after midnight while the San Diego sightings occurred closer to 30 minutes aftermidnight.) The lights were visible to the southeast in San Francisco anddrifted west. The lights were visible to the northwest in San Diego and alsodrifted towards the west. The possibility exists that the lights drifted tothe west in the Bay area and then became visible from San Diego to thenorthwest. If this is true, the lights would have been very high in theatmosphere (130 miles) and obviously could not have been Chinese lanterns.In addition witnesses and photos in the Bay area show that the lights movedrelative to one another. This fact also makes the Chinese lantern theoryless likely.