Posted: August 28, 2008
Date: July 3, 2008
Time: Around 9:30 - 10:00 p.m.
I am only writing this as it has started to interest me, if anyone else has seen this thing and what exactly it is. If I had not seen this three separate times, I would probably not be writing this.
I ride my bicycle every night at around 9:30-10:00pm.
Sometime around July 3rd 2008, I was just starting to head out on my ride. I was only about 100 feet from my house, and looked up at the stars as I always do. I was heading west and looked at the big dipper when I saw what I thought at first was Venus. A very bright light, at least the same magnitude of brightness as Venus, and equal in size to the naked eye. I immediately thought it was odd as I've never seen Venus in proximity to the big dipper (looking west). I verified that it wasn't Venus as I looked south and there was Venus where it should be. I looked back at the object and it was then that I realized that it was moving. Very fast towards me.
I immediately turned my bicycle around and called inside to my fiancé to come and look at this thing.
She came outside and saw it too. It moved west to east. It was a pure white light, much brighter than an aircraft light and making no sound at all. I asked my fiancé to run and get the camera, and before she could return the object faded out. It took only about 60 seconds to completely cross the sky and fade into the distance. I did notice that just as it began to fade, which took about a second, it made a small change in course, turning south about 10 degrees.
There were no blinking lights, no other light other than a single white circular light. I know it was not an aircraft, as besides the fact that it had no running signal lights, the brightness of the light remained constant the entire time I saw it and was at least 5x brighter than an aircraft light. It passed directly over our heads and was almost as if the light was radiating in all directions. If it were an aircraft the light would have changed at least in brightness as it passed overhead and continued away from us.
I have seen many satellites, and I can assure you that it was not a satellite. It was as bright as Venus and equal in size, not your typical pin point light that a satellite is. Additionally it had no "tail" as a meteor would have during entry into our atmosphere.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
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