NUFORC Sighting 151024

Occurred: 2019-11-23 06:00 Local
Reported: 2019-11-23 06:17 Pacific
Duration: ~ 2-3 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA

Shape: Light

Train of lights crosses big dipper 6 AM Arizona Time the perfectly straight line covers most of the sky!

I was on my way home from my morning walk and had just made it to the entrance of the parking lot on McCulloch where you would drive right past the entrance to the Library. I looked up to look at the big dipper and saw to my amazement a continuous stream of lights moving from one end of the horizon to the other and passing thru the length of the big dipper. (moving from the "cup" end to the handle end) While the lights were not evenly spaced, they were all traveling at exactly the same speed with respect to each other. They were all of the same brightness which did not vary. None of them appeared any brighter than any of the stars actually a part of the big dipper. I have no idea how long this had been going on before I saw it. I do know I started watching it no more than a couple of min before six am Arizona time because my phone alarm went off at six am like it always does and I had just started watching the event. I was too amazed to count accur! ately but estimate I saw about 20 to 30 lights. They were in a perfectly straight line but were unevenly spaced. The distance between each light never varied as they moved, but the spacing seemed to vary from 3 degrees to 25 degrees. The "train" of lights extended from one side of the horizon to the other as much as I can tell. The lights seemed to fade out about 20 degrees past the handle end of the big dipper. I don't know if that was because of clouds or just the city lights of Havasu. My view of the other side of the horizon where they were coming from was obstructed by buildings and trees. When I got back to the condominium where I live I saw a friend who was in the hot tub and asked her if she had seen the same thing and she said she had and that she first noticed it as a group of 4 lights she saw going thru the big dipper and then she noticed the lights just kept coming. I have no accurate account of the duration of this event, but think it lasted no more t! han three min. I am no one in particular, just a 51 year old l! ibrary a ssistant and former teacher at a private high school. My friend is also a teacher.

Posted 2019-12-01