NUFORC Sighting 65085

Occurred: 2008-08-07 21:05 Local
Reported: 2008-08-07 21:23 Pacific
Duration: 1:40
No of observers: 1

Location: Chula Vista, CA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Slow Moving, Oval shaped, very low in the sky, and a very bright white, and it vanished...

I saw a slow-moving, oval shaped, bright white object in the sky. It moved App. NW to SE and it lasted about 1 minute 40 seconds. It moved then it made a sharp left turn then a sharp right blinked red once and vanished.

Also I am a student pilot so i know a airplane when I see one and this was not an airplane

NUFORC Note:

The ISS passed directly above Chula Vista at 20:53 hrs. on the date indicated, traveling from NW to SE. However, it would not have been "low in the sky," except during the early and later part of the event. PD

Posted 2008-08-12