NUFORC Sighting 11581

Occurred: 1999-12-26 18:12 Local
Reported: 2000-01-05 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 - 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Vancouver, WA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Fast flying lighted object from North to South, lights dimmed, then went out and object was then not perceivable.

I went out of the front door of my house facing east. I had just looked at the clock and it was between 18:10 and 18:13 in the evening. It was dark and the sky was clear. A lighted objected caught my eye. It appeared to be low in the sky, traveling at a high rate of speed from north to south. The light appeared to be incandescent (white/yellow). What caught my attention was that there was no red/green lights or a flashing on/off light that is common to airplanes. In the short time that I saw the object, it appeared to have two compartments (all that I could perceive). The lights in the rear compartment seemed to dim until they went out. After that the front compartment lights went out as if they were switched off. When the lights were out, I couldn't see the object anymore. My estimated time of viewing was about 10 seconds.

Posted 2000-01-07

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