A fast-moving object with no audible sound appearing as a bright white light with a slight trail at or around FL150 traveling North.
I had been having trouble falling asleep, so I laid down and looked out my west facing window. I had been still for just a second when I saw a very bright white light in the shape of a sphere moving at a fast speed traveling north across the sky outside my window. I noticed a slight trail effect behind it as well. I did not hear any noise and lost sight of it behind a neighbor’s tree/house. It happened in an area near a large international airport, though I’m familiar with the area and would recognize a standard passenger aircraft. To double check, I opened my flight tracker just seconds after the sighting to confirm what I had just seen. As I found no planes moving that direction in the area, I concluded it wasn’t one. I opened my other app “stellarium” just to make sure it couldn’t have been a satellite. Knowing that I have never see a satellite at my location due to light pollution, I knew it wasn’t one but still checked. Again, I found no evidence to disprove what I saw.
I had been having trouble falling asleep, so I laid down and looked out my west facing window. I had been still for just a second when I saw a very bright white light in the shape of a sphere moving at a fast speed traveling north across the sky outside my window. I noticed a slight trail effect behind it as well. I did not hear any noise and lost sight of it behind a neighbor’s tree/house. It happened in an area near a large international airport, though I’m familiar with the area and would recognize a standard passenger aircraft. To double check, I opened my flight tracker just seconds after the sighting to confirm what I had just seen. As I found no planes moving that direction in the area, I concluded it wasn’t one. I opened my other app “stellarium” just to make sure it couldn’t have been a satellite. Knowing that I have never see a satellite at my location due to light pollution, I knew it wasn’t one but still checked. Again, I found no evidence to disprove what I saw.
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Valley Stream
USA
About one second.
About one second.
40.67
-73.70
light
NY
Occurred : 7/9/2022 00:42 (Entered as : 07/09/2022 12:42 AM) Reported: 7/8/2022 10:36:28 PM 22:36 Posted: 9/9/2022 Location: Valley Stream, NY Shape: Light Duration: About one second. Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object
A fast-moving object with no audible sound appearing as a bright white light with a slight trail at or around FL150 traveling North.