NUFORC Sighting 120409

Occurred: 2015-07-15 00:10 Local
Reported: 2015-07-15 01:27 Pacific
Duration: 30-40 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Gladwin, MI, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Animals reacted

Something glowed brightly, stood motionless for a few seconds, flared up and took off across the sky.

My friend and had just stepped out in his driveway to look at what had suddenly become a beautiful, clear, starlit sky.

We had seen two satellites and three shooting stars and were scanning the sky to the west, when about 1/3rd of the way between the horizon and directly overhead, towards WSW, a bright white light suddenly appeared, grew in brightness and size while stationary over the course of 5-10 seconds, flared briefly and with a small trail behind it, began to speed off to the WNW, not extremely fast, but faster than an jet aircraft at that height would have… The trail lasted only a second or two, and it turned into a bright dot that faded as it headed away, we watched it for 20-30 seconds as it faded out.

Dogs across the street started barking at the same time and continued to do so for several minutes after the event.

Posted 2015-07-17

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