NUFORC Sighting 180864

Occurred: 2000-09-01 23:59 Local
Reported: 2024-03-19 05:42 Pacific
Duration: <1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Sipoholon, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Location details: from my ancestral home at night (mountains area)

Shape: Star
Color: white
Estimated Size: no idea
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: north
Angle of Elevation: 64
Closest Distance: it was possibly at low earth orbit? Idk
Estimated Speed: depends on the distance
Characteristics: Lights on object

A star suddenly changes position (not shooting star)

It was nighttime back in around 2000. I was a 6th grader. I was lounging, stargazing in front of my ancestral house, when I noticed a star abruptly switched position and settled there. Back then I chalked it off as something normal I didn't know about. Although I was piqued enough to remember it.
But now I think it's not a registered phenomenon.

It moved abruptly with no acceleration, as if it was dragged across a screen. Unlike a shooting star, it remained stationary at it's new position. It was very far above the horizon line, i couldn't have confused it with any ground lights. It wasn't twinkling like an aircraft would. It looked like a star.

It travelled very briefly, about twice as long as it takes for the seconds hand of a clock to move from one place to the next. It stopped as abruptly as it started. It traveled probably around 10 degrees from my POV.

The place where I was was almost off the grid, and there were very little ground light. In fact the surrounding was almost pitch black back then, and stars were easily visible, hence why I was stargazing.

It traveled downwards to it's left, which would probably be suggestive of a falling star. But i distinctly remembered it being stationary before and after, though.

Posted 2024-04-27