Drifting, wobbly light moving quickly across the night sky and disappearing
Wife and I were sitting on the porch swing and noticed a very bright, drifting star - brighter than Venus by several magnitude - moving quickly from northwest to southwest. Too fast for a plane, too quiet as well, not high enough for a satellite. It wobbled slightly as it moved, but moved smoothly. After passing over our home, it dimmed and disappeared completely.
We stayed outside to see if it would come again - say on a second rotation if it were a satellite. However, never saw it again. Wife mentioned she saw it earlier in the evening hovering on the horizon. Thought it was an extremely bright star.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect that both sightings from Dorchester, Massachusetts, submitted by the same person, are of the International Space Station. PD))
Wife and I were sitting on the porch swing and noticed a very bright, drifting star - brighter than Venus by several magnitude - moving quickly from northwest to southwest. Too fast for a plane, too quiet as well, not high enough for a satellite. It wobbled slightly as it moved, but moved smoothly. After passing over our home, it dimmed and disappeared completely.
We stayed outside to see if it would come again - say on a second rotation if it were a satellite. However, never saw it again. Wife mentioned she saw it earlier in the evening hovering on the horizon. Thought it was an extremely bright star.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect that both sightings from Dorchester, Massachusetts, submitted by the same person, are of the International Space Station. PD))
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Dorchester
USA
60 seconds
60 seconds
42.29
-71.08
sphere
MA
Occurred : 7/6/2010 22:00 (Entered as : 07/06/10 22:00) Reported: 7/10/2010 7:19:28 PM 19:19 Posted: 7/19/2010 Location: Dorchester, MA Shape: Sphere Duration: 60 seconds
Drifting, wobbly light moving quickly across the night sky and disappearing