I had my first sighting since I was a child tonight. Large boomerang plus high altitude lights with very anomalous movement.

Location:

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Date of sighting:

2/24/24

Time of sighting:

6:30-7pm

Duration of sighting:

5-7 minutes

Number of witnesses:

One

Description of sighting:

I had my first sighting since I was a child tonight. Large boomerang with high-altitude anomalous lights.

This happened a few hours ago, 2/24/24 in southwest Louisiana. I’ll start by saying I am an avid sky watcher. I have been interested in all things space related my entire life, and find myself looking into the stars every night. I live fairly close to an airport, and I see planes every day. I can identify them as such very quickly. I am also very familiar with satellites and their movement/speed as they pass over. I see both of those among the stars very frequently, and a few minutes bedore my sighting I saw a satellite and a plane, so I had a very fresh reference point for both.

I was walking my dog around 6:30-7pm. I was admiring the stars as usual, noticed a satellite and a couple planes and kept walking. It’s at that moment one of the lights in the corner of my vision seemed to bounce around very quickly. I look over and there are three lights, very high altitude. I could barely see them with the amount of lights around me on the ground, but I followed them for about five minutes. It was not nearly bright enough to get a video on my phone. They started to my east-northeast, about 70 degrees from the horizon. After five minutes they were all the way to my northwest. The lights were dancing around, they weren’t in formation but their movements seemed to play off of each other. When they moved it was extremely quick, entirely too fast for anything man-made. When they moved I could see tracers behind them. It’s like if you’ve done acid and someone waves their hand in front of you, you can see multiple traces of their hand following the movement of the arm. It was mesmerizing to watch.

I walked with my dog to the other side of my apartment complex after I lost track of them. As we’re walking in the opposite direction of the sighting my dog stops again and after a minute in my lower peripheral vision I see my dogs head shoot up to my right, and I caught the motion in the sky shortly after. The first thing I noticed was that there were light clouds all of a sudden in a line from north to south, and then I see the boomerang. It was at a much lower altitude than the lights, moving slower than the lights but way faster than a plane. There was no sound whatsoever. It appeared like a very large, dark shadow just above the cloud layer, and moved from south to north quickly until it faded in the distance. It’s hard to say how high up it was, but it seemed pretty low. I probably only saw the shadow because of how crazy bright the moon is tonight. It was huge. A standard boomerang shape with sharp corners. No lights that I could see. It made no sound whatsoever, and I instantly got goosebumps after it disappeared.

The weird thing is when I got inside it’s like I completely forgot about it, which I didn’t even realize until an hour or two later when I walked my dog again. I looked up and saw the high altitude lights again, and then the first sighting instantly clicked in my head again. I found that pretty weird. I only saw them for a minute or two this time before they faded out.

I don’t know what these things were, but they absolutely were not planes or satellites. I also fly drones and can safely say both types did not line up with being a drone at all. The lights were interesting, but I didn’t have the instinctual, almost adrenaline like reaction until I saw the boomerang. I’ll never forget it. I would love to hear if anyone else has had a similar encounter.