NUFORC Sighting 160001

Occurred: 2020-09-12 06:30 Local
Reported: 2020-10-15 16:12 Pacific
Duration: ~7 hours
No of observers: 9

Location: Grosse Ile, MI, USA

Shape: Sphere

Two objects that appeared as planets even after sunrise - one may have been Venus but then what was the other one?

On the morning of Saturday September 12, 2020 I saw two objects in the pre-dawn sky that were brighter than the stars that were visible at the time and I figured they must be planets.

The objects were aligned almost due north-south, about 40 degrees apart, almost directly overhead slightly in the western sky.

Sunrise was at about 7:10 am and I could see them even after sunrise just as bright as they appeared pre-dawn I was able to track the objects for the rest of the morning.

They moved in an east/south direction and kept their apparent north-south alignment the entire time.

At about 11:00 am one of the objects could be seen between the sun and the moon in the daytime sky. My cousin in Florida said that he was able to see this object at this time. He could not verify that he could see the second object.

Skychart apps “confirmed” that the southernmost object was Venus, even though Venus was not retrograde at the time. Skychart apps did not give any insight into the second object.

Posted 2020-12-23