NUFORC Sighting 16463

Occurred: 2001-02-12 00:00 Local
Reported: 2001-02-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: at least 40 mins. I went
No of observers: 1

Location: Medford, OR, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Bright flickering light in southwestern sky.

There was a single bright light that was in the area to the southwest. To the naked eye, it had no shape, and appeared to be a flickering white. However, after looking at it with binoculars, it appeared to be triangular in shape and clearly change colors (quickly enough to make it appear white). I first noticed it around midnight, and watched it move all over the southwestern sky until I went to bed around twelve fourty. The observation occured on the northeastern end of the city, almost to the foothills of Roxy Ann.

NUFORC Note:

We suspect the witness observed a celestial body, a star or a planet, but we are not certain. The object could not have been Venus, which sets earlier in the evening, and it could not have been the star, Sirius, which would be in the southern sky at the hour, and on the date, indicated. The witness might have been looking at Jupiter or Saturn, but that is a guess. PD

Posted 2001-02-18