fast moving ball of light variable speed and brillant light that faded away before the horizon
i was smoking a cigarette and looking out my window and a bright light about 2 times the size of venus when visible caught my eye, it was stationary or to slow to seem to be moving, the light was of constant intensity with no red or blue shift the light was just brilliant white i noticed it moving slowly and the object picked up speed it was moving about half as fast as a shooting star, now a close object like a fighter jet doesnt appear to be moving all that quickly and a shooting star is like a bullet and a sattelite is also a fast moving object but as far as i know they dont change speed in orbit,but this object at full speed wasnt as fast as a sattelite and it sped up and slowed down then the light started to fade and it was gone i could see a few stars but they were very dim, in the city there is alot of light so star gazing isnt easy thats why this object stood out so much in the sky.and about a half an hour after the sighting i saw lots of strobing aircraft lights but the airspace the planes were in was not a normal commercial flight path i may see one or two planes a day to the east of my house not 4 or five at once , i belive there has to be life in the universe but also i know people can completly misidentify things like i did when i saw a b2 spirit flying at night a large dark triangle with no light has to be a ufo,but then i saw it in daylight and it was so obviously a plane. I dont want to make a big deal out of nothing but if there are other reports like this from washington i am willing to talk to anyone there who wants to listen thanks
i was smoking a cigarette and looking out my window and a bright light about 2 times the size of venus when visible caught my eye, it was stationary or to slow to seem to be moving, the light was of constant intensity with no red or blue shift the light was just brilliant white i noticed it moving slowly and the object picked up speed it was moving about half as fast as a shooting star, now a close object like a fighter jet doesnt appear to be moving all that quickly and a shooting star is like a bullet and a sattelite is also a fast moving object but as far as i know they dont change speed in orbit,but this object at full speed wasnt as fast as a sattelite and it sped up and slowed down then the light started to fade and it was gone i could see a few stars but they were very dim, in the city there is alot of light so star gazing isnt easy thats why this object stood out so much in the sky.and about a half an hour after the sighting i saw lots of strobing aircraft lights but the airspace the planes were in was not a normal commercial flight path i may see one or two planes a day to the east of my house not 4 or five at once , i belive there has to be life in the universe but also i know people can completly misidentify things like i did when i saw a b2 spirit flying at night a large dark triangle with no light has to be a ufo,but then i saw it in daylight and it was so obviously a plane. I dont want to make a big deal out of nothing but if there are other reports like this from washington i am willing to talk to anyone there who wants to listen thanks
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Kent
USA
1 min 30 sec
1 min 30 sec
47.38
-122.22
light
WA
Occurred : 7/16/2009 10:22 (Entered as : 7/16/09 10:22) Reported: 7/16/2009 10:48:10 PM 22:48 Posted: 8/5/2009 Location: Kent, WA Shape: Light Duration: 1 min 30 sec Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
fast moving ball of light variable speed and brillant light that faded away before the horizon. ((NUFORC Note: ISS sighting. PD))