Bright light in western sky. Not a planet. Could not be identified by smartphone app.
March 18th 10 to 11 pm Eastern time I saw a bright orange light low in the western sky. It wasn't Venus or Jupiter because it was the wrong color and they had already set. It wasn't Mars because I could see Mars overhead at that time. I thought perhaps it was an airplane headlight, but I never saw any blinking lights on it and it's only movement was a slow downward descent like it was any other star or planet that was setting. It got slowly dimmer the lower in the sky it got. A smartphone with an app that identifies constellations and such could not identify it. According to the smartphone app it was just northeast of the constellation Aries.
Van Johnson Gainesville, FL
March 18th 10 to 11 pm Eastern time I saw a bright orange light low in the western sky. It wasn't Venus or Jupiter because it was the wrong color and they had already set. It wasn't Mars because I could see Mars overhead at that time. I thought perhaps it was an airplane headlight, but I never saw any blinking lights on it and it's only movement was a slow downward descent like it was any other star or planet that was setting. It got slowly dimmer the lower in the sky it got. A smartphone with an app that identifies constellations and such could not identify it. According to the smartphone app it was just northeast of the constellation Aries.
Van Johnson Gainesville, FL
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Gainesville
USA
30 min
30 min
29.66
-82.36
light
FL
Occurred : 3/18/2012 23:00 (Entered as : 03/18/12 23:00) Reported: 3/19/2012 1:16:11 AM 01:16 Posted: 5/13/2012 Location: Gainesville, FL Shape: Light Duration: 30 min
Bright light in western sky. Not a planet. Could not be identified by smartphone app.