NUFORC Sighting 65464

Occurred: 2008-08-29 22:15 Local
Reported: 2008-08-30 08:22 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Cupertino, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere

Bright spherical object streaking west to east in skys over San Jose

My son and I were sleeping in a tent in our backyard. The top of the tent was a screen and the skies were perfectly clear.

At 10:15PM while looking up I saw what appeared to be a spherical object probably 1/8 size of the moon streak across the sky going west to east. It was not a shooting star and there was too much "shape" to it to be an Irridium flair.

It had a very white magnesium/titanium color to it. It was almost blindingly bright.

Absolutely no noise.

It seemed much closer to the ground than jets and other aircraft that I saw in the sky throughout the night.

Posted 2008-10-31