NUFORC Sighting 09768

Occurred: 1999-09-11 20:25 Local
Reported: 1999-09-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Spokane, WA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Watched what looked like a shooting star, kept getting bigger and faster. Dropped for about 10 sec, then came to a complete stop. Hovered for about 4-5 sec then shot almost straight up in the oposite direction and disappeared.

Saturday night Sept. 11th, 8:25 pm Clear night, no clouds, new moon Looking towards the south from my apartment balcony I saw what I thought was a shooting star. After about 5 seconds I thought it must be a meteor. The object started out about 1/10 the size of a full moon. (Brilliant white in color) As it was coming down it kept getting bigger, brighter and faster. About 10 seconds into the sighting, a tail came out the back of it. Blueish in color and very long. The tail was about two fists long. (Holding my fist up to the horizon as a measurement) It came to a complete stop just above the tips of the trees in the horizon. It hovered there for approx. 5 seconds, then shot almost straight up very fast and was gone. There is no way this was a shooting star, meteorite, or re-entering space junk. This thing stopped and changed direction.

Posted 1999-10-02