NUFORC UFO Sighting 181839
Occurred: 2024-06-11 23:40 LocalReported: 2024-06-11 23:04 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1
Location: Round Hill, VA, USA
Shape: Orb
Color: Yellow, white
Estimated Size: 400 feet
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: 40,000 feet
Estimated Speed: Supersonic
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby
Lights near the Big Dipper appear, travel with constant velocity, brighten to yellow and dim to white before disappearing.
At 11:40 PM on June 11th 2014, I saw a bright light in the sky and judged it to be an airplane. The brightness of the goldenrod yellow light appeared to cover a circular or elliptical area, with an absence of dim sections or other lights that would indicate a left or right-hand side.
I did not hear sound accompany the directly Northbound light, which dimmed to white which left this light-source appearing much more like the satellites I'm used to seeing. The dimming was gradual, and constant for about one second leaving only the soft white. The white light then disappeared, approximately ten seconds after I took notice of it.
After that, I remained in the area with the intention of finding where it went. The soft light was not directed at me, and glowed more than shined so naturally I didn't expect what I thought was a passenger airplane to now more closely resemble a satellite. Over the next several minutes, more lights appeared near to the same constellation.
The second of which was never glowing so bright yellow. But about a minute after the first, and while still looking upward this new light appeared and moved from East to directly West at the same rate of speed before I lost vision of it while looking straight at it. To be clear, I had what plainly resembled a star or satellite in eye-sight and then lost it.
Less than a minute later, I took notice of a bright and slightly darker goldenrod colored light of the same size and glow at almost 90 degrees above and moving from South to North. However, I can't account for a light-source moving that fast. The glow appeared more of a stream at the velocity observed, and then it vanished without dimming and without breaking the sound barrier. I estimate that after becoming visible, it remained clear until its new position was 2 degrees lower from my North-facing perspective in the span of a tenth of a second. The movement was faster than a shooting star, and when I saw it I felt dizzy, with a continuing mild nausea over the next hour.
After what felt closer to a minute, a similarly glowing light in the same color as the first described moved from West to East through the sky, originating closer to Arcturus. However, the velocity was no greater than a shooting star and visibility was even more brief.
From this time on, I noticed several other lights moving at very similar speed. The next of which originating from closer to Altais and also moving directly North from a Southern origin. They were all common in that their velocities remained exact for the duration of their visibility, their heading was always a cardinal direction, sound was not audible and appearance and loss of visibility was instant in all cases rather than gradual.
Importantly, other aircraft occupied the sky South, and East of this position. These however were structured passenger craft with lights indicating left-hand and right-hand sides, were audible and remained visible in the clear, cloudless sky until their passing over the horizon.
I've no professional background on this subject, I'm a plane watcher and avid star-gazer.
Posted 2024-06-21