NUFORC Sighting 64530

Occurred: 2008-07-14 03:20 Local
Reported: 2008-07-14 00:53 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Brampton (Canada), ON, Canada

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

Small single light the size of a small star moved at a moderate speed very high up then glowed very very brightly and dimmed quickly

I witnessed this in the western part of Brampton, Ontario, Canada at 03:20 hrs. I was looking up into the sky – as I often do – and noticed a small light moving at a steady rate overhead. It seemed to be very high up and I thought it may have been a satellite – as I have seen these on many occasions. I watched as it maintained a steady movement across the sky from the southeast to the southwest.

It appeared – in size – to be the same as the smallest surrounding stars and equally as faint/bright. As it got most of the way across the sky, it suddenly got brighter and brighter and brighter until it was almost as bright as Venus – which was in the western sky some distance away. It was almost as if it was a satellite that entered the atmosphere and burned-up. It dimmed rather quickly from it's brightest point and there was a hazy blue-white glow in the sky where the sighting ended. My eyes were temporarily affected by the brightness – I couldn't see as well in the dark for several seconds – this is how bright it glowed. If I had to describe it, it reminded me of burning magnesium – something I witnessed several years ago in high school chemistry class.

I don't know what this was but I am certain it was not an airplane. It could have been an object which burned up in the atmosphere. It was far far far to slow to have been a meteor. Ironically I witnessed a different sighting a few years ago in the same general area of the sky a few miles from this location. A neighbour told me that she had witnessed a triangular craft in the same general area some time ago.



Posted 2008-08-12

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