NUFORC Sighting 55068

Occurred: 2006-11-15 05:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-02-01 06:51 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Lithonia, GA, USA

Shape: Light

Satellite performing a sharp 90 degree turn.

One night Late 2005 early 2006 I had gone outside my place of employment to a small field next to the building Weyerhaeuser container plant Lithonia Georgia and being an amateur astronomer looked up into the night sky to look at the constellations and frequent satellite passing by.

It was about an hour before the sky started becoming light and I would frequently see satellites passing overhead and would watch them for a few minutes, this particular morning I saw a satellite going from south to north it was of good visability reasonably bright 0-1st magnatude simular in appearence to Saturn, making no sound, a

fter observing it for 30 seconds or so the light made a sharp 90 degree turn, no apparent radius, no change in speed, to the east,

I continued to observe the light till it went out of sight.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD

Posted 2007-02-01