Occurred: 2012-08-09 09:03 Local
Reported: 2012-08-10 11:32 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright object in sky fades away over Seattle

I was traveling northbound on I5 (http://goo.gl/maps/PH2Za) while riding my motorcycle. Having a helmet view of the sky I could see everything very clearly. It was bright and mostly clear. There were a few distant cirrus clouds but when I saw this object it was back-dropped by clear blue sky. The object was flat and bright and moving easterly and at an approximate 4 or 5 degrees angle upward. The brightness of the object could have been sunlight gleaming from it but it was much brighter than one would normally expect even having sunlight bounce off of it. There was a gleam about the object that appeared to move on the object.

At first I thought that the object was a jet since this location is near Boeing, and to be honest, it could have been, I guess. It was probably four or five miles from me, I estimate, and it was about an half-inch wide from my perspective. After watching this object for around 10 seconds the background of the object changed so that th! ere was a very distant and slightly transparent, small cirrus cloud. As the object approached the location in the sky where the background became the cloud, the object could be seen completely until the last part of the object was forefronted to the cloud at which point the object slowly faded away.

By the time I saw the fading occur, I will admit that I was in a slight turn on the freeway which put me in a more north east direction. I continued to watch the location of the sky where the object existed. After a few seconds, I ended up in a more sharp curve putting me in a north direction of travel again while still maintaining as close an eye to that part of the sky without getting in an accident but that object never reappeared *anywhere* in the sky. The cloud in the back ground was small so any flying object would have left that area of the sky back into clear blue sky within seconds. This object did not and I was never able to see the object again after that.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2012-08-19

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