NUFORC Sighting 168367

Occurred: 1998-08-20 20:59 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-05-15 22:56 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Lees Ferry Grand Canyon CO River, AZ, USA
Location details: On the bank of the Colorado River while fishing.

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Left a trail, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Missing Time

A light that looked like a planet, shined a light, retracted the light to size of a satellite, and then shot across entire horizon.

While fishing on the Colorado River at sunset, from the corner of my eye, I noticed a planet that I thought was Mars (orange). After a brief moment, with the planet in my periphery and within a moment of feeling spied on, I realized the orange light was not a planet, and I thought it was a helicopter spying on myself and my 3 fishing mates.

I quickly pointed at the light (I thought was a helicopter), and started to say “that’s not a (planet)” and before I could say anymore, what I thought was a helicopter, shot a bright light towards us (I thought a spot light).

The light was so bright that I thought it would hit the ground us. But it did not. As fast as the light had swelled out, it retracted in the same manner. It retracted to the size of a small satellite, and then shot across the horizon in the blink of an eye.

It shot across the sky similar to a meteor. Except that it left more of a tracer (flash) than a meteor trail. There was no trail but the flash and streak across the horizon.

It was not a meteor. The original orange light that I had thought was a planet, had stayed motionless in the corner of my eye for over thirty seconds, until I had the feeling that it was a helicopter spying on us. In the instant that I raised my hand to point at it, a great light swelled, I thought it was a spot light shooting down on us as if we were in trouble. I thought the light would have fallen on my friends and I but I don’t think that it did. Rather, the light collapsed on itself to the size of a satellite, and then shot across the horizon. It left no trail but looked like a laser shooting across the horizon.

My 3 friends and I did not speak of this for weeks. Even directly after the incident as if in denial.

Posted 2022-06-22

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