NUFORC Sighting 108100

Occurred: 2014-03-26 00:15 Local
Reported: 2014-03-26 00:31 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Redding, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown

Orange glow moving randomly in the northern sky.

In the Northern sky, I witnessed an orange blob about 40 degrees above horizon. It seemed to have a bit of size to it, not like a point like a star or airplane light.

Weather, cloudy, intermittent rain. This means elevation was likely low, below or just at cloud level. There was no "beam" of light as typical from airplane landing lights, rather it just glowed. Brightness was about as bright as Venus at it's brightest, but was not as brilliant due to orange color.

It moved at a very slow pace in a random pattern, almost like a leaf floating in a very very gentile breeze or bird gliding very slowly on a thermal. Movements were too tight to have been a manned aircraft. There was nothing consistent in its direction. Very Random.

After a few minutes it started to move north very very slowly and just slowly faded out. Likely gained elevation and was covered by clouds.

No sound accompanied the object and it seemed close enough that an aircraft would have been heard.

Posted 2014-03-27