NUFORC Sighting 16986

Occurred: 2001-03-26 20:10 Local
Reported: 2001-03-27 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Wauconda, WA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Slow "satelite" stops,changes color and fades out.

Not too spectacular.Simply appeared to be a normal satelite until I realized it was moving at about 1/4 the speed I usually see a satelite move.This caught my attention so I watched it for about 20 seconds.The object then came to a dead stop,changed from a starlike color to a pale rust color and faded out over about 3 seconds until it vanished.It never returned to view.This is the second sighting of this kind I have seen this year,the first being in early January.Another similar sighting happened in Feb.2000 where I saw an extra "star in the handle of the big dipper begin to move from a dead stop about 2 deg.across the sky,shoot straight up at incredible speed out of sight.A sighting of a marble sized orange ball preceeded that sighting by about two months.

Posted 2001-04-01

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