NUFORC Sighting 48512

Occurred: 2005-08-10 21:00 Local
Reported: 2005-12-28 01:08 Pacific
Duration: 45 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Plano, TX, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

orange star like object streaking across south-western sky

My wife an I are young. Neither of us have ever seen a UFO previous to this occasion, and have only heard stories. I was out on my apartment balcony which faces south, just after night-fall, when I noticed a orange looking star-like object slowly streaking "down" the sky in the west. The character of the object was that of a comet. The object began above us and to the west of us, and was slowly streaking down in the western sky. The object was moving at an angle so that it may have been only reaching the western horizon, and not actually falling. As the object neared the horizon, it disappeared into the clouds. Six main points of interest that may be helpful to anyone reading this for investigative purposes.

1 - my wife and I both agree that the object had a tail (comet like tail).

2 - my wife and I both agree that the object was shifting horizontally in the sky, and that the tail was not effected - the entire tail was shifting with it (jumping to the left and right).

3 - My wife and I both agree that there was some sort of activity around the object, appearing as dancing blue specks of light to us.

4 - Upon calling my brother who lives about 50 miles away in Greenville, TX he confirmed the same comet like light with a comet like tail, in the same part of the sky, headed the same direction. He saw this briefly before it disappeared into the clouds. (Brother is a religious conservative who would never believe he saw a UFO - he felt this was a comet).

5. My wife and I researched every website we could find on the sky that night, and found no reports of a comet. The Perseids meteor shower was scheduled for within the next couple of days - but this object moved much much slower than any shooting star/meteor that I've ever seen.

6. Both my wife and I agree that the object was an orange ball of light, looking about the size in the sky that a planet looks like when we see mars, only it was moving with a tail streaking behind it.

Myself (age 26)- Open minded individual, who has shown intrest in UFO/paranormal activity.

Wife (age 24) - Not open minded, does not show intrest in UFO/paranormal, and pokes fun at these types of things (feels there must be some logical explanation for what we saw that night, like a sattelite or something).

Brother (age 29) - Definately not open minded, very conservative (also feels there must be some logical explanation for what we saw that night, thinks it was a comet).

Please note - just found this website months later from the incident - the date of occurence is exact - the time may be off by minutes.

Posted 2006-02-14

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