Occurred: 2012-08-02 22:50 Local
Reported: 2012-08-20 22:14 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Palmdale, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

fast bright moving object at night, level flight

I was late at night as usually hand watering the backyard garden while watching the stars, and the started following the red blinking lights of a jet airplane moving East to West, at apparently usual speed, whatever it is and at high altitude (some 30,000 feet as jets do my guess), and as the airplane passed at about 2 O'clock (I was facing North) a bright white object appeared from the North and moved really fast (4-5 times the relative speed of the moving airplane) in a North to South direction (perpendicular to the plane's route) but clearly at a much lower altitude (15 to 20 K feet) and in a horizontal, level trajectory, not a meteorite or at least not the way a meteorite behaves, no trail or debris at all as I have seen in the past many meteorites fall from the sky at night. It was such a rare view that I actually tried following the object with my sight after it disappeared from view behind a tree. Whatever it was it was bright white, not red like othe! r meteorites I've seen. and what surprised me was the straight line it followed as if in level flight.

Posted 2012-09-24

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