NUFORC Sighting 1032

Occurred: 1995-12-01 17:20 Local
Reported: 1995-12-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 sec.

Location: Waukesha, WI, USA

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She was driving west of Waukesha, WI, and saw a "shooting star" descend vertically, suddenly stop its descent, then shoot "forward" and disappear. Even though she saw it for only 2 seconds, she got a good enough look at it to believe that it had lights of some sort on it, not lights that one would expect to see on a shooting star. Case was forwarded to Richard Thieme, MUFON SD, and I called him with a follow-up call. He had already talked to the woman and surmised it might be a C-172 in the pattern of a local airport, but reconsidered after our talk.

Posted 1999-11-02