NUFORC Sighting 69460

Occurred: 2009-03-28 17:00 Local
Reported: 2009-03-30 20:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown

Unusual seemingly stationary bright object

I had stepped out of the laundry room of my apartment building to the parking lot beside the building. I looked up into the sky and saw this fascinating cloud that looked like a feather. I said to myself, "There's got to be something behind that cloud." There was. When the cloud had moved away I saw a bright object. At first I thought it was a star, but thought, "It couldn't be at this hour." I continued to watch it. It seemed to be stationary like a star as the Earth moved. I went to my apartment to get my binoculars. This took about 3 or 4 minutes. The object was still there but it was a bit dimmer. Whenever I looked at it with my binoculars and tried to focus on it I couldn't get the object into focus. When there was a moment of focus it didn't look like a star. It seemed to have bright and dark areas. Interestingly, as I watched it through the binoculars another smaller object went from West to East. It was much smaller than the first object and I could focus on that one. As the Earth continued to turn and the Sun slowly began to set the object became dimmer and dimmer until it was no longer visible.

Posted 2009-04-14