NUFORC Sighting 06175

Occurred: 1999-04-12 21:30 Local
Reported: 1999-04-18 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Tacoma, WA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

I looked up into the night sky only to see a "comet" streaking across the sky, but then it made a squiggle and disappeared.

I had been visiting my neighbor and was outside saying good-night when above her head I saw a comet (I was facing south and the comet went from east to west). But the comet made a squiggle (as if someone was holding a flashlight and started jostling it up-&-down rapidly). Then the comet was gone. I dismissed it thinking it may have been a moth, but moths don't just disappear. This "comet" was orange, was flying in a straight line;then it made a squiggle and just as quickly as it appeared, it disappeared. Vanished. As if plucked from the sky. At this time, it was dark, but there was a street light directly to my left, thus my thought it was a moth that had been flying away from the street light. We've had a good view of the stars at night until last night. I did noth bring this to my friends attention as she was facing the wrong way and by the time I could have blurted out the words, it would have been too late. And I didn't want her thinking I was seeing things.

Posted 1999-04-26