NUFORC Sighting 20534

Occurred: 2001-11-22 06:45 Local
Reported: 2001-11-22 05:21 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Howell, MI, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Object as bright as a star traveling in a straight path suddenly changes directions moving backwards almost instantly.

This Morning, Thanksgiving, Nov 22nd, while driving to work from Highland MI to East Lansing MI and passing through Howell. I observed the following.

A bright object the size of a star, moving rather slowly across the sky. At first I assumed this object to be a satellite as I have seen them before moving at about the same speed. It was brighter than those I have seen before. I was thinking perhaps the space station or some other more reflective larger object in outerspace. This object appeared to be at least 10-20 miles up and probably a lot more and outside of our atmosphere... Traveling in a straight line from low North to a higher South projectory. This was in the Western Sky. Nothing seemed strange about it though, until about a minute later, and keeping my eye on it and driving, it changed Directions. All of the sudden (and a few holy ****'s) later this object is going directly backwards from its original course. I know this is not normal. I am a well informed astronomer and also pretty well versed in physics. This is Not normal at all and I know nothing of any technology here on earth that could duplicate this fact. it traveled about the length of 4-6 moons in the opposite direction and while looking for a place to pull over and observe this object was no longer visible. it disappeared but I did not see the disappearance.

Posted 2001-12-05