Brilliant white light moving at an extreme velocity traveling in a straight trajectory east to west.
While visiting friends,the unidentified aerial phenomenon was seen by me and four others in West Richland, Washington on August 27, 2010 at approximately 2115 hours. The weather was very clear with a few scattered high altitude clouds in the west. If facing west the object was first spotted at about the 11 o’clock position. It was traveling in a straight line east to west and disappeared over the horizon in less than a minute.
At first we thought it was a satellite, due to its speed and trajectory. We quickly realized that it was much too large and bright to be a satellite and then thought it might be the space station. Again this was discounted due to the size of the object. It had to be very large and very high or it had to be at a much lower altitude and traveling faster than any airplane any of us had ever seen.
The object was a large white light or maybe several white lights close together forming what appeared to be a single light. It was extremely bright and the shape of the object behind the lights was indiscernible. There was absolutely no engine noise. The object moved in a straight trajectory directly toward the sun, which had already set. As stated the object was over the horizon in less than a minute. I will not speculate as to its speed.
The witnesses to this event are extremely credible. None of us had any guess as to what this object may have been.
((NUFORC Note: ISS at 21:20 hrs., but west to east. We are confused by the direction of travel of the object witnessed, given that the ISS does not orbit to the west. PD))
While visiting friends,the unidentified aerial phenomenon was seen by me and four others in West Richland, Washington on August 27, 2010 at approximately 2115 hours. The weather was very clear with a few scattered high altitude clouds in the west. If facing west the object was first spotted at about the 11 o’clock position. It was traveling in a straight line east to west and disappeared over the horizon in less than a minute.
At first we thought it was a satellite, due to its speed and trajectory. We quickly realized that it was much too large and bright to be a satellite and then thought it might be the space station. Again this was discounted due to the size of the object. It had to be very large and very high or it had to be at a much lower altitude and traveling faster than any airplane any of us had ever seen.
The object was a large white light or maybe several white lights close together forming what appeared to be a single light. It was extremely bright and the shape of the object behind the lights was indiscernible. There was absolutely no engine noise. The object moved in a straight trajectory directly toward the sun, which had already set. As stated the object was over the horizon in less than a minute. I will not speculate as to its speed.
The witnesses to this event are extremely credible. None of us had any guess as to what this object may have been.
((NUFORC Note: ISS at 21:20 hrs., but west to east. We are confused by the direction of travel of the object witnessed, given that the ISS does not orbit to the west. PD))
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West Richland
USA
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1 minute
46.31
-119.37
other
WA
Occurred : 8/27/2010 21:15 (Entered as : 08/27/10 21:15) Reported: 9/15/2010 6:54:10 PM 18:54 Posted: 11/21/2010 Location: West Richland, WA Shape: Other Duration: 1 minute Characteristics: There were lights on the object
Brilliant white light moving at extreme velocity traveling in a straight trajectory E to W. ((NUFORC Note: ISS at 21:20 hrs.. PD))