Looking exactly like Jupiter in night sky, a light appeared high in sky at time of ISS orbiting above, speeds across, vanishes, it exhi
A light suddenly appeared high above, looking exactly like it could have been the planet Jupiter, almost directly overhead but slightly to the east, traveled from north to south in a flash just as if it had been hit by a baseball bat. I’m guessing it may have traveled a sky distance of two to three degrees or about one seventh to one sixth of the sky immediately above me. It had the same magnitude and appearance of Jupiter in the night sky, absolutely no difference. I saw it for a split second or so and then it was gone, without fading in magnitude or changing in appearance. Its brightness was consistent without any fluctuation. It disappeared in the same form as it had appeared. It displayed no streak, tail or any kind of trail or smoke. It was a singular light and moved across the sky incredibly fast. I observed it because I was watching the ISS moving from NW to NE that evening in my backyard. The ISS had reached its zenith in the northern sky wh! en the ISS went behind a tall fir tree and while I waited for it to re-emerge (which it didn’t by the way) the unexplained light appeared about a degree away just to the south of the location of where I last saw the ISS.
A light suddenly appeared high above, looking exactly like it could have been the planet Jupiter, almost directly overhead but slightly to the east, traveled from north to south in a flash just as if it had been hit by a baseball bat. I’m guessing it may have traveled a sky distance of two to three degrees or about one seventh to one sixth of the sky immediately above me. It had the same magnitude and appearance of Jupiter in the night sky, absolutely no difference. I saw it for a split second or so and then it was gone, without fading in magnitude or changing in appearance. Its brightness was consistent without any fluctuation. It disappeared in the same form as it had appeared. It displayed no streak, tail or any kind of trail or smoke. It was a singular light and moved across the sky incredibly fast. I observed it because I was watching the ISS moving from NW to NE that evening in my backyard. The ISS had reached its zenith in the northern sky wh! en the ISS went behind a tall fir tree and while I waited for it to re-emerge (which it didn’t by the way) the unexplained light appeared about a degree away just to the south of the location of where I last saw the ISS.
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Kent
USA
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47.38
-122.22
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WA
Occurred : 9/13/2009 20:17 (Entered as : 09/13/2009 20:17) Reported: 2/13/2012 12:23:22 AM 00:23 Posted: 3/13/2012 Location: Kent, WA Shape: Light Duration: 1 second Characteristics: There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Looking exactly like Jupiter in night sky, a light appeared high in sky at time of ISS orbiting above, speeds across, vanishes, it exhi