2020-02-26 - Coeur d'Alene, ID - Sphere

Spherical,dark, huge, ominous

Looking through my celestron telescope at Venus, I witnessed a spherical object, with a dark band through the center, moving towards venus in a long arch, traveling slowly upwards from north to south and stop above the planet. The object was a dark/light gray uneven in color with a solid black band that went from top to bottom of the sphere. The object appeared to be 1/2 the size of Venus. It stayed above the planet.

I checked the lense of the scope to see if there was a bug crawling across the lense. It was clean. I looked back into the scope and the object was still there. I attempted to attach my IPhone to the lense to document the object but was unable to. When I looked again it was gone. It was not visible to the naked eye. Just as a time reference for the event I did naked eye see the Space X Satellite pass close to Venus, shortly thereafter.