Big Sur, CA - Diamond

I was at Nepethe Lodge in the Big Sur area with a friend of mine and we were having dinner. I looked up at the sky and thought I was seeing a falling star; I pointed it out to my friend, as we were watching it, it stopped and made a sharp turn, like a sharp left turn. We were both stunned and I asked whether she saw what I saw and she confirmed that she saw the same thing. It was very high in the sky and looked like a star. We both agreed that it could not be a plane,a jet, a satellite, or anything we could recognize, and it certainly was not a shooting star. It was moving very fast. This was the second sighting I have had in my life thus far. Once, when I was very young and then, this sighting, as a young adult. How can mankind be so vain to think we are the only forms of intelligence in the entire universe. It was amazing . . . a bright star (it was bright) looking object, coming down like a shooting star and pausing and then making a sharp turn. I really don't believe we had, nor have, anything that can move like that moved.

((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. There is a meteor shower during the month of August, but it would be an extremely rare meteor that would be visible for a minute.

I have been to the very Nepenthe Lodge in Big Sur on many occasions, while I was a university student in California. PD))