What was that?
Strange Lights Over San Diego

By Kathy L Kirk

I’ve always been more at home outside than in; therefore I spend a lot of time observing nature and especially the night skies. At one point I was living in Leucadia, a suburb of San Diego in Northern San Diego County which lies on the coastline. There I would routinely walk up to the cliffs to watch the sunset. I’m proud to say that I’ve personally witnessed two green flashes. The unexplained mysteries of the sea, the skies and the Universe enrich my life on a daily basis.

To the south of Leucadia about 8 miles is the lovely seaside village of Del Mar, where I was visiting a friend who lived right on the cliff at the bottom of 9th St. overlooking the vast Pacific.One evening in late summer 1992 just after sunset, the sky was growing dark. I was inside cooking something for dinner when my friend called to me to come outside and see what he was observing. I turned off the stove, walked through the dark cottage and onto the front porch.

Looking due west there was an odd white light of undefined shape just hanging in the blackness. For reference if due west is 12:00, then this light was hanging in the sky at about 1:00. At first it was fairly small, which is to say it was about the size of a rising moon without the edges. It was amorphous in shape and colored a soft white. Over the next 20-30 minutes as we sat and watched it, it grew in size to be that of a large thunderhead cloud, although it’s edges were indistinct and soft, as a glowing of light. (photo courtesy of Scientific American)

Our minds scanned available experiential knowledge from our memory databases to find some explanation. There’s nothing out there – no island, no ship. There is nothing that would provide a source where a light could be emanating from. Further, it was just hanging as if suspended in space. As we watched, it grew in both size and brightness.

At some point it reached its largest size and then slowly commenced its reversal, diminishing in size. However, by this time there were several helicopters – both military and police - now flying up and down the coastline obviously seeing what we were seeing and attempting to investigate and identify.
The light continued to shrink and then it disappeared in a wink and was gone leaving us to wonder just what we had witnessed along with everyone else.

Another time I was driving west on Interstate 8 around Alpine, CA also in San Diego County. It was midday with the usual sunny clear blue cloudless sky. I happened to look off to my left - the south - and saw what appeared to be a saucer shaped white cloud. I glanced back to the road then back again to the south to look at it again. Now it was was moving in a circle and then whisked away and was gone.

In either case I know that I saw something unusual and not of a nature phenomenon like the Aurora Borealis or light pollution. There was something…

Then of course there’s seeing images within cloud formations, which is a game everyone loves to play. It allows our imaginations to run free. Recently here in Medina, a friend and I had been out to dinner and were talking about peace. She showed me a decal on her car which was taken from a Picasso, the image of a dove. When she ran into the house to retrieve her wallet, I looked up at the sky as the sun was setting and saw the dove in the cloud pattern. I grabbed my camera, because the whole scene was so beautiful and seemed to mirror back to me the exact vibration of peace as we had just been discussing.

I love the mystery, though, so my mind allows that lots of things under the heavens we simply don’t know about yet. Perhaps we can’t handle it. Maybe we’re not intelligent enough yet to understand. In any case I don’t feel any fear about these things, but rather a state of wonderment, curiosity and awe. I know it’s all Good.

Besides as Carl Sagan said in his book/movie Contact, "If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space."

Biography

Kathy Kirk has led both an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ life.  At first glance, her background as an entrepreneur and mother living in the Midwest may sound like someone you know.  Yet during the past 25 years she has been developing and evolving teachings and principles to help all people live life to the fullest.  In every activity, her focus has been observing the human Spirit and its interface, application and effectiveness in the individual Life on Earth. 

Applied Spirituality™ was born from research, observation, personal experiences, meditation and Kathy’s own spiritual journey.  She has exhaustively observed the world’s various religions, and studied many spiritual teachers. What she was looking for was not unique to one religion, however, but a simple, effective teaching that could be applied by all, regardless of religion.  For seven years in her jeep, Kathy traveled extensively the United States to observe people and conceive the idea and principles of Applied Spirituality.   She meditated and reflected on all that she had learned and found the words to explain Applied Spirituality to the world.

Her first book, The Earthling’s Quick Start Guide: Master Operating Your Unit On Earth is Introduction to Applied Spirituality written for all people to learn and apply to their own lives.  The book functions as a user’s manual and comes with a complete online, interactive course.  Kathy’s second book, Well Done chronicles owning and operating her successful restaurant, Chelsea Garden, in Solana Beach, CA.  It is as a story of an ordinary life transformed using the principles of Applied Spirituality. The forward of Well Done is written by Dr. Ken Blanchard.  Both books and online courses can be found on her website at www.appliedspirituality.com. Kathy can be reached at www.appliedspirituality.com, via email at support@appliedspirituality.com.