Reply #24: Saw something similar that almost had me believing...

[geebensis]

At dusk one night, driving down a beach road, I saw what fit most flying saucer descriptions to a "T". It was huge, hovering silently, and had multi-colored lights.

From a distance the only thing that made sense was "flying saucer". It definitely wasn't an airplane, helicopter, or "weather balloon". It was seriously creepy.

But a couple miles down the road I was close enough to see what it really was: The Metlife blimp, heading back down to Miami. If I hadn't been driving and gotten close enough to make out what it was I would still be mystified by it today.

It is really easy to misinterpret something in the night sky. It is very difficult to accurately judge size, speed, and distance of an aircraft at night. Think about it: if you just estimate one thing wrong (size, speed, or distance) it can skew your judgement of the other two enough that your brain determines that the object you see is doing something "impossible" and could therefore be a (cue X-Files music) UFO.