By Tim Binnall
A California man driving home from dinner over weekend wound up with a mysterious addendum to his meal when he looked up at the night sky and spotted a cluster of curious orange lights hovering overhead. According to a local media report, Raffi Sarimazian's intriguing sighting occurred this past Saturday evening in the city of Fresno. While cruising down the road after leaving a restaurant, he did a double take when he noticed some strange lights moving in the sky. Certain that he was not looking at fighter jets, a helicopter, or drones, Sarimazian marveled that "it looked like a fleet of UFOs like you see on TV."
Fortunately, the mystified witness managed to film the puzzling scene with his cell phone and observed that, as he got closer to his house, the lights began to vanish from the sky. "One by one, they would slowly disappear," Sarimazian said, "like fade away." This process struck him as particularly odd as he noted that "one of them would pass the other, and the one that is passed would disappear ... it was really weird." Although he had seen unusual flying objects in the past, Sarimazian mused that his sighting over the weekend was, by far, the most bizarre of them all.
As to the nature of the peculiar orbs that Sarimazian filmed over Fresno, inquiries by an area TV station have so far managed to rule out military aircraft, weather balloons, and SpaceX Starlink Satellites. Setting aside the possibility that the objects constituted a fleet of alien craft, one prosaic explanation that seems to fit the case is that the UFOs were actually lanterns, which would account for the way in which they vanished from the night sky. Of course, unless someone comes forward to lay claim to the unidentified flying objects, the sighting will likely remain a mystery. To that end, what's your take on Sarimazian's footage? Share your thoughts with us at the Coast to Coast AM Facebook page.