NUFORC Sighting 13744

Occurred: 2000-08-10 22:18 Local
Reported: 2000-08-11 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 4 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lakewood, CO, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

While watching the sky and standing east I saw one light with the naked eye about 150 degrees up from the left traveling south. Looked at it with a ITT generation 2 night scope,There was a second light. It was very near the first brighter light traveling south west. I let my daughter look at them for abought 30 seconds or so. Then I looked at them again, to my amazement there was a third light converging close to the first two lights. They came together to form a square formation trveling south at about 180 degrees. They stayed in formation untill they finally faded at about 215 degrees.When they did come into the formation all three lights were the same brighness.

NUFORC Note:

We spoke with this witness. It is our impression that what he describes is indistinguishable from satellites. It is not unusual to have more than one satellite in the field of view of an optical device. PD

Posted 2000-08-19