NUFORC Sighting 20940

Occurred: 2001-12-28 06:00 Local
Reported: 2001-12-30 17:55 Pacific
Duration: 20min
No of observers: 1

Location: Jena, LA, USA

Shape: Cigar

cigar shaped craft north sky, very large moving slow then fast also coming to a dead stop, very bright silver.

I was in my deer stand about 0530 very bright moon clear sky .I saw a falling star then a few min later in the north sky about 30 deg.above tree line i saw one cigar craft moving very slow then stoping then moving very fast across the sky then going up then down very fast and stoping again like it was looking for something.I did use my gun scope to look at the craft it was a very long way from my but very shiny and long bright silver.

Posted 2002-01-11