On a late September evening in 2011, my fiancée and I found ourselves poolside at the Riu Santa Fe Hotel in Cabo San Lucas. The night was dark, the air still. Suddenly, without a whisper or a trace of sound, a black shape about 8 feet in size darted swiftly some 50 feet above us. Its form was shadowy yet distinct, slicing through the night sky with an unsettling silence.
The sight was startling. When I urged my fiancée to look, it had already moved beyond clear view, swallowed by the darkness around 10 pm. But the spectacle had only just begun. Fixing my gaze toward its fleeing direction, I soon noticed something else—red lights, three or four, twinkling incomprehensibly as they maneuvered in the distance.
These lights hovered and danced, their presence lingering for nearly an hour, etching a memory that refused to fade. Despite asking several hotel employees, no confirmation came; none had witnessed what I had.
As the owner of a large construction firm, my life is consumed with pragmatism and deadlines. Yet what I encountered that night defied logic and demanded attention. This experience compelled me to break from routine to share this encounter with others, hoping that those who have seen such phenomena might step forward and recount their tales.
This mysterious black object, accompanied by its eerie red lights, left an indelible mark—the kind of eerie enigma Ramsey Campbell might weave into a tale of creeping dread and the unknown. It’s an invitation to look up, to wonder, and to confront the inexplicable drifting silently across the sky above Cabo San Lucas.