NUFORC Sighting 120251

Occurred: 2015-05-25 23:40 Local
Reported: 2015-07-09 11:28 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Centralia, WA, USA

Shape: Light

Bright light "explodes" then disappeared

On June 25, 2015, at approximately 11:40 PM, my boyfriend and I were standing on the balcony of The Great Wolf Lodge hotel looking east. The sky was completely clear and I noticed that even though we were in a populated area that more stars were visible in Centralia than at home in Everett.

As we were admiring the stars I pointed to a moving light. I thought it was a satellite moving from the South to the north but just as I said, “Hey, look it’s a satellite,” it suddenly “flamed up” got extremely bright then disappeared out of sight. Almost as though a rocket engine had engaged. Not exactly sure what it was. Very well could have been a satellite and we just got lucky and saw it burn up in the atmosphere.

Wasn’t going to report but I haven’t been able to get it off my mind since.

NUFORC Note:

Possible flare from an Iridium satellite? PD

Posted 2015-07-10