Mysterious lights baffles people in San Diego

Recently, terrified people from San Diego flooded social media claiming to witness a line of strange lights appearing in the sky that vanished briefly.

On Wednesday night, San Diegans started sharing pictures of a line of bright lights illuminating the sky and vanished soon after. The lights sparked fears among people, confusing them as to what these lights were.

Soon after sunset, some round lights, looking like floating fireballs seemed to just hang in the sky. Soon the lights were accompanied by a set of a smaller one. However, after creating a brief show, the lines slowly started vanishing themselves and left people puzzled, reported Science Alert.

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A witness Uma Aggarwa told the San Diego Union-Tribune that she spotted the lights at 8:20pm., which would be a little more than an hour after sunset. “They were hovering in place and they were extremely bright. It was the craziest thing,” she said.

What’s happening over the downtown skyline? Looking from La Mesa to downtown. Looks like floating balls of fire? @CBS8 #ballsoffire #whatsthat pic.twitter.com/O8sNaLhfJQ

— ? Daniel Burns (@DBurnsOfficial) August 30, 2018

Is anyone looking at the freaking yellow lights in the sky? #tijuana #rosarito #sandiego

— Paulina Bm (@PaulinaBeMu) August 30, 2018

Extraterrestrial lights randomly appearing in the air of Pacific Beach, San Diego. What are they?! #SanDiego #lights @nbcsandiego pic.twitter.com/mS4YJXtYWD

— Nicky Fox (@itsnickyfox) August 30, 2018

As expected, some people started to think of these lights as just another ‘UFO’ flying around in the sky.

Strange Lights Above San Diego Spark Speculation of UFO#UFOs #ExtraterrestrialLifehttps://t.co/lRfZWnxmQB

— Project Capture (@Project_Capture) August 30, 2018

However, the mystery was soon solved and the lights were confirmed to be a series of flares dropped from aircraft during a navy training exercise around 50km off the coast, a spokesperson told Fox 5.

Everyone in #SanDiego putting on their alien first contact outfit can relax, the lights over the ocean are military illumination flares.

— Jeff Johnson (@echo5juliet) August 30, 2018

Mystery lights over San Diego solved. https://t.co/9haHy1AIMS

— Mick West (@MickWest) August 30, 2018