NUFORC Sighting 72570

Occurred: 2009-09-22 20:20 Local
Reported: 2009-09-23 10:12 Pacific
Duration: 1 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Halifax (Canada), NS, Canada

Shape: Light

Bright white light bobbing across the sky for about 1 min over Dartmouth Nova Scotia Canada, Sept 22nd

At about 8:20pm on Sept 22nd 2009 I was walking out to my car and looked up to wish upon a star, (the evening star, the only big and bright star in the southern sky) I looked down and a few seconds and then looked up again looking towards the East and I saw what appeared to be the same star in front of me, but then I realized that I could still see the first star out of the corner of my eye. (I wish upon this same star everynight after work so it is always in the same place in the sky, at this time of year) I joked to my friend to look at the UFO in the sky and he looked up and stopped laughing at me. He saw the same bright white light that I did and we stopped walking and witnessed it “bounce” across the sky. There was no flashing lights like a commercial aircraft, no sound and it was not moving in a straight line, but bobbing up and down as it moved away from us slowly like it was going up and down on waves in the sea.

After about 30 seconds to a minute of observation, we witnessed it just fade away. I thought I noticed it dip slightly and turn further to the east just before it faded. My friend thought it was far away and moved at high speed away from us, and thought it was outside our atmosphere.

I thought it was much lower in our atmosphere, maybe only 5,000 – 10,000 feet up, as I am an amateur Astronomer and have looked at the moon and comets through both binoculars and a small telescope and frequently lie back and watch planes go over head, I know how high a plane is when it is flying the North Atlantic great circle route probably 35,000 feet up, you have to tilt you head way back almost to lose your balance, this object was an easy glance up, maybe only 45 degrees up from the horizon.

The sun was fully down, so I don’t expect this was a reflection, I have never observed anything like this in the daytime or nightime sky before, my friend guessed it might be a flare if it was as low as I thought, but it was not losing altitude, it was maintaining it’s forward speed and altitude like a powered craft would.

I believe in life in the universe, but have a hard time believing this was anything other worldly, but I’d love to see if anyone else noticed this object over Dartmouth Nova Scotia,

NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Posted 2009-12-12