NUFORC Sighting 29650

Occurred: 2003-07-09 23:59 Local
Reported: 2003-07-10 05:51 Pacific
Duration: 6 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Reno (southwest), NV, USA

Shape: Other

For the past 2 weeks I have witnessed an interesting repetitive phenomena. Approximately at midnight a star-like object appears to rise in the sky from the Southeast and then travels toward Mt. Rose and Mount Slide near Reno, Nevada. For a time it will stop there, and then travels Southwest until it arrives where it is vertically visable from my bedroom. It remains there until about 4:30 A.M. and then begins to move South again. It is brighter than the North Star. I can't really call this a UFO because it looks like a star, but I have never seen stars traverse the heavens in this manner before. Fallon Air Base is near here, but this had no characteristics of an aircraft.

NUFORC Note:

All stars appear to "rotate" around "Polaris," the north star, because the Earth is rotating on its axis. The object probably is a star. PD

Posted 2003-07-16