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Before you quit out on this story, it gets weird near the end.

So last night (6-24-24) I was driving home at about 11:45PM on Cap City Freeway just over midtown in Sacramento, CA. I traveling north, and saw what looked like a helicopter (based on the two bright white lights that were horizontally displaced with a red blinking light in the middle). The only thing that was slightly odd was that the distance between the two lights was actually very large, maybe double what I would have expected from a helicopter. Also, the lights were a bit brighter than most helicopters and also had less light rays coming off them. So, this caught my eye. It started off center-right and was slowly traveling towards my left moving west. I was beginning to think maybe it was a low flying plane off in the distance just based on the distance between the lights because I haven't seen many helicopters that had lights so far apart. There were no red/green lights on the wings though. Also, I thought that I should have been able to see the body of this helicopter with how close it must have been. Eventually, the object was far enough left for me to only view it from my driver's side window. Then, one of the two lights slowly began to split in two and move upward, and it looked like this was actually more triangular shaped now. It had the red blinking light in the center still, and was now shaped like an equilateral triangle. I know that helicopters can appear like the classic triangle UFO that so many people have seen before, but it was really odd how big this thing was. I'd estimate it to be 30x30x30. Also, it was far enough to my left now that I wasn't just visualizing the underbelly of the craft because it was above me, because if it were the underbelly of a helicopter, it would have to have its nose pointed toward the ground and probably would have been taking off rather quickly, especially with how close it would have to have been from me judging by its size. But... it wasn't. It was just sort of drifting around and slowly rotating. Now here's the weird part. I still wasn't convinced at this moment, even though it was catching an almost unsafe amount of my attention as the driver of a vehicle. But one of the lights split into two again, and slowly started to form a quadrilateral shape that looked basically like a rhombus. The red light remained in the middle the whole time, still blinking like a prosaic aircraft light, but the lights around it still continued to rotate kind of counter clockwise while always keeping this red light in the midpoint between them all. I also noticed that the white lights had slowly been turning slightly orange/yellow, which was more obvious now but I hadn't noticed it before. At this point, and I know I'll catch some criticism for this, I was beyond the point of being able to take a video of this thing because I had fully crossed over the city on the straightaway and was beginning to go into some tight turns to the right. It was in and out of visibility from trees and buildings too. If I did whip out my phone, it would have been very hard to start a video, verify I'm filming it on screen and in focus, and be paying enough attention to stay in my lane while making a tight right turn on a freeway at 65mph (if anyone knows this freeway they'd understand it's one you need to pay attention to). So I have zero proof, but it was the strangest thing to see a rotating rhombus shaped object in the sky that I thought was a helicopter at first.. I have no idea how my perception could have fooled me with this, but I still would have been pretty skeptical when it was just a triangle. I thought about getting off the freeway, turning around, and trying for another video, but I thought it was probably too far away now to get a good shot and the next exit was 3/4 mile.

If anyone else from Sacramento saw something like this, please share here. I couldn't find anything here or online about this. I'd love to hear what you saw.