NUFORC Sighting 30815

Occurred: 2003-08-20 21:40 Local
Reported: 2003-08-21 11:28 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes approx
No of observers: 2

Location: San Rafael, CA, USA

Shape: Light
Explanation: Satellite - Possible


At approximately 9:40 pm waiting for Mars to rise high enough in the sky to observe easily with telescope and binoculars. I was observing the star Vega in the constellation of Lyra with a Meade refracting telescope and binoculars with a friend. When she commented that she had seen an faint blue flashing object in the binoculars just to the east of Vega. Passing the binoculars to me I panned slightly to the east of Vega and sure enough picked up a faint irregular flashing object on a northeastern heading. I was able to track the object for approximately 4 minutes. In that time it traversed possibly 15 degrees of the visible sky. At that point I lost the object from the field of view of the binoculars and wasn't able to pick it up again. This may have been one of the Cosmos Rocket (satellites/ space debris)

Posted 2003-08-28

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