NUFORC Sighting 130868

Occurred: 2016-10-22 20:40 Local
Reported: 2016-10-27 16:55 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Nashville, TN, USA

Shape: Diamond

I saw star like object appear and then disappear about 5 times within about a 4-5 minute time bracket.

On Saturday night, October 22, 2016, @ 8:40PMCT, I was viewing the sky from the middle Tennessee area, looking in the far North West of a clear sky, and I saw a star like object appear, and then disappear, about 5 times within about a 4-5 minute time bracket.

Then looking slightly to the left a little more to the west, I saw another star like object do the very same thing twice. Both sightings appeared to be stationary, not moving in any direction, simply appearing and disappearing. Both looked just like a star.

I am wondering if these sightings could have been a caused by the reflective surfaces on geostationary or communications satellites?

NUFORC Note:

One of two sighting reports submitted by the same source. The witness's other sighting also occurred in Nashville, TN, and is posted to our database of sighting reports for September 21, 2016, at 1940 hrs.. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be quite sober-minded. We suspect that he is a quite credible witness. PD

Posted 2016-11-04