NUFORC Sighting 150491

Occurred: 2019-11-09 00:10 Local
Reported: 2019-11-08 23:39 Pacific
Duration: ~30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Evansville, IN, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Colo

around 12:10 pm Central standard time at latitude 37.97 longitude -87.49 Orion constellation, the two shoulders, the belt of all three stars, and the two legs (7 stars) and one almost directly down if Orion were straight up all appeared to me in overcast skies. My friend Mr. T (names kept anonymous for protection) was a witness as parts of the constellation showed themselves and then disappeared, especially the star Rigel, which moved and shifted color across the spectrum while being seen by both he and I. Using a $900 pair of night vision goggles I have seen a set of two very hot very columns coming off two lower sides of the craft When I describe them as “showing themselves” I mean that on a very bright night in the middle of a city while overcast with scattered altocumulus clouds, these objects appeared to me with the brightness of a shooting star while not moving except for abnormal jaunts to nearby static positions. While moving, they changed in brightness by magnitudes that could not be accounted for by the clouds moving.

With Rigel in clear appearance when I showed tom, the entirety of the constellation became the brightest thing in the entire sky along with the one other star under orion.

Same location at 12:23 pm I placed a call to vanderburgh dispatch and told them about the appearance, they recommended to me a call center for ufocenter.com at 206 722 3000 At 12:25 I placed the call and the director Mr. Davenport took my call. He suggested documenting my experience in writing and asked if I have a camera I have a Sony A7R3. it’s a world class mirrorless camera with in body stabilization. Without much time to waste I went back outside at the end of our call with the camera and a fixed focal length (prime) lens at 28 millimeters. I picked this lens because prime lenses are incredibly sharp and it was already on the camera. I fixed the focus on these objects after setting the aperture wide open and started taking a number of pictures at a high ISO (around 6400?) and aperture. Noticing they were noisy even though the camera was on a tripod, I checked the exposure time and automatic settings had pushed the exposure time to 1/6th of a second. I set the iso first to 100 and began taking a number of long exposure photographs (10, 8 seconds). I noticed in one image a “star trail” on one of the objects. It was straight, not an arc, and ! the end of the trail was very bright as though the craft or object had moved and then become stationary. I have done astrophotography with lenses like this one in the past and star trails aren’t distinguishable near this altitude without a 15 second exposure. I set the iso higher to 640 and started taking a number of photographs across the sky at about a second long exposure. As a part of this report I will upload them.

Posted 2019-12-01