NUFORC Sighting 08087

Occurred: 1999-06-17 21:03 Local
Reported: 1999-06-17 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Shape: Circle


Looking at Venus with scope and spotted a black sphere moving through the field of view very quickly.

I had just set up my Meade Polaris 4.5 reflecting telescope to look at Venus and after I aquired the planet and found focus I noticed a small spherical craft moving through the bottom of my field of view so I tracked the object which was pitch black for almost a full minute and it was moving so quickly I had to use my hands to move the scope as the tracking controls were to slow to follow.I had a 36times eyepiece in the scope and it required no change in focus in the eyepiece its size was double the size of a BB.I was totally circular and I do wish I would have been able to use a higher power eyepiece to see if there was any surface detail but at the speed it was moving Iit would have been impossible to keep it in such a narrow field of view.I was moving from the Northeast to the Southwest.I am also a Ham radio operator and a storm spotter callsign N0VMY and I have seen many strange things dealing with weather and aircraft but this was a textbook UFO.

Posted 1999-07-05

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