Occurred: 2001-04-15 22:30 Local
Reported: 2001-04-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: over 70 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Mount Juliet, TN, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

red light go fast, white light means it stopped and pulse fast red before moving.

At approx. 2230 hrs 15Apr01 while outside smoking a cigarette, and observing the solar system, I noticed a red dot (approx. the same light magnitude as the North Star) moving from west to east (just left of where Jupiter was setting.) I thought that it was a satellite, rocket booster, or other misc. space junk crossing the sky, and continued to watch it as I have done in the past (I enjoy looking at the night sky and have 2 astronomy telescopes for viewing objects.) This is the strange part, the item made an instant course change and now headed due north (all directions are from my point of view). It then stopped at approx. were Auriga was. Let me say this also, everytime the item stopped moving, it would appear to be white, then before moving would start pulsing red, while moving it would remain red. All movements appeared to have instant top speed to instant stop, except for a few times were it would start at what I would estimate half speed. It then moved east and stopped to my north easterly position (around approx. the middle of draco.) Then stopped and went south, then it stopped again to my east south east position (between Bootes and Virgo.) Then it went westward, and stopped to my south (just below Leo) then make a few zig zag moves westward stopping between each movement and ending this near cancer. It then went north again, this Northward, Eastward, Southward, Westward movement, continued for at least 80 minutes (although it was now throwing in some go one direction and then go back halfway). I watched this item also do an extremely fast and extremely tight circle (approx. the size of my fingernail at arms length) in the sky at which time it left like what appeared to be a fast evaporating contrail, (only the circle shape had the contrail). I continued to what until approx. 2350 hours. At which time I lost it over the horizon to the East.

Posted 2001-04-28

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