NUFORC Sighting 168682

Occurred: 2020-03-29 22:06 Local
Reported: 2022-06-16 21:27 Pacific
Duration: 15-30min
No of observers: 2

Location: Alexandria, VA, USA
Location details: In the sky while standing in my front yard

Shape: Circle

Walked outside and noticed an oddly behaving bright star took picture and video then noticed something extremely out of the ordinary

On March 29, 2020 I had woke up on the couch after having a really strange dream. A little stressed from the experience I decided to step outside to smoke a cigarette. As I was sitting there on the front steps I noticed in the sky, a bright star, the moon was out and it was brighter than the moon. I do a fair amount of “star gazing” and to me this wasn’t a “normal” star. I’ve had never seen it before in the night sky. Upon continuously starring at it I noticed that it wasn’t staying still slightly shaking and it would move vertically up or down just a little from my point of view. At this point I’ve probably been sitting outside for about 5 minutes or so and I thought it was strange so I decided to take some videos and pictures of the star. After finishing my cigarette I walked back inside and wound up falling right back asleep after turning on the tv. I woke up again and immediately was thinking about the star so I went back out to the front yard to smoke another cigarette and check it out. However upon looking up in the sky it was gone. I looked all over the sky maybe the star positioning was different since it was a different time however it was no where to be seen. I thought this experience with this star was strange so I went back inside to look at the videos and the photos of the star. That’s when things got weird. I still don’t understand this but the couple videos I had taken had been completely removed from my phone (I get chills just writing this down). The videos had completely disappeared however the few pictures I had taken were still there. After going through the pictures I noticed something in the last one. (In the pictures the moon is the top left and the star is to the bottom right.) In the last picture the star looks completely differently and made me question what it really was. It doesn’t look like any star I’ve seen especially the more you zoom in. I showed it to my roommate and friends and they sort of shrugged it off so I didn’t think much of it after that but after recently showing some people this picture they expressed their shock and disbelief so I’m deciding to report this now.

Posted 2022-06-22