Occurred: 2012-08-18 23:40 Local
Reported: 2012-08-19 08:27 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Columbus, OH, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Orange shimmering object moving across night sky

Last night I saw another shimmering orange object in the sky. I already reported on one that I saw on August 10.

On this occasion, I went outside to lock my car and the object caught my eye. It was moving from east northeast to west southwest. It was not falling like a shooting star, but moving horizontally. Unlike the first sighting, this one had no trailing “cone” shape behind it, but otherwise it was identical.

It produced no trail, like a shooting star or comet. It moved in a straight line fairly quickly, like the speed you would of a plane flying across the sky. But I have seen planes flying across the night sky with their navigation lights flashing at regular intervals. This was definitely not a plane. The object was basically round and orange in color, but it shimmered or flashed but not regularly – the effect was more like it was an irregular shaped object spinning around fairly quickly. Maybe it would be akin to wrapping aluminum foil around a rock, hang from a string, spin it around, and shine a bright orange light on it.

Anyway, it tracked across the sky and then it gradually diminished in intensity and eventually faded from view.

The whole episode lasted about 10-15 seconds from the time I first spotted it.

Posted 2012-08-19

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