2000-01-20 - Pembroke Pines, FL - Light

At approximately 11:15 PM on January 20, 2000 my wife and I went out by our pool to watch the Lunar Eclipse. Just before returning into the house I looked straight up overhead and saw what looked like a red "smear" of light, moving South. I pointed it out to my wife who stood and watched it with me. At first we thought it might be a shooting star, or after we noticed that the light remained constant, we thought it was a piece of "space junk", but we thought it was too large for that. Also, it appeared to us that it was "wavering" a bit on it's path, not going in exactly a straight line. As it approached the Southern horizon, it made a sharp right turn, heading West, for approximately 10 seconds, then stopped and sort of "looped" back to the East disappearing. I mentioned this event the next morning on my local radio show, and received a phone call from someone claiming to be an Air Traffic Controller at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, who said they had picked it up on their radar, could not explain it, and had turned the tapes over to "the authorities" When I asked him who he meant by "authorities" he said the FAA.