NUFORC Sighting 152335

Occurred: 2019-12-30 03:31 Local
Reported: 2020-01-06 10:55 Pacific
Duration: 25 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Gasquet, CA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

3:31 AM 12/30/19 Gasquet, Del Norte Cnty, CA Round object moving like a heart-beat monitor display from WSW-ENE across the sky for 25s.

3:31 AM Monday, December 30, 2019 Gasquet, Del Norte County, California As seen through Bedroom window with no lights on inside room or house I woke up and opened my eyes. Looking out the bedroom window, I could see a cloudless sky full of stars (Orion and the Seven Sisters were both visible). It was then that I noticed movement across the sky from the treeline towards the house (roughly moving from west-southwest to east-northeast) of what appeared to be a whitish-blue satellite. I rubbed my eyes and grabbed my glasses to watch it as it moved, as it appeared to be deviating from its course in sporadic bursts that were perpendicular to its direction of travel, at times seeming to zigzag back and forth across its general direction of travel. I call them bursts because each time the object appeared to return to its main path, and the speed of the bursts was eight to ten times faster out and back than the speed of the general pathway that the object was taking. I have watched the skies since I was a kid and have seen countless satellites-- including the space station, but I had never seen that kind of motion that high up in either the outer atmosphere or in outer space.

I checked the data from the Heavens-Above website and could not find a satellite traveling along that orbit at that time on that night, so I do not know what I saw which is why I am reporting it here

https://www.heavens-above.com/AllSats.aspx?lat=34.11036&lng=-118.44846&loc=house&alt=300&tz=PST

Posted 2020-02-07