NUFORC Sighting 49312
Occurred: 2006-02-26 23:00 LocalReported: 2006-02-27 09:50 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Shape: Unknown
Bright orange object west of the Big Dipper visible for 3 minutes
At 11:00pm I looked up in a clear sky and saw a bright orange object to the west of the Big Dipper. If the object had been dimmer, it would have appeared the way Mars appears on a normal night. The object was clearly not Mars so I stopped to look at it. For 3 minutes I watched it drift to the west, and then slightly north. In all, it covered perhaps a 10 degree swath of the sky. During this time its brightness varied in intensity. Finally at about 11:03pm it faded out and was no longer visible. I waited an additional minute to see if I could spot it again but I could not.
Posted 2006-03-11
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