NUFORC Sighting 158248

Occurred: 2020-08-06 20:45 Local
Reported: 2020-08-07 12:21 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Antioch, CA, USA

Shape: Circle

My boyfriend and I were stargazing in our backyard looking SE at Jupiter and Saturn when what appeared to be a star in between them started to brighten. Object became unnaturally bright are large. It continued to brighten and grow then it shrunk and dimmed back to normal size star. It then brightened again and flew sideways to the right until it was above My. Diablo barely above the skyline. It brightened and dimmed, disappeared and reappeared back closer to the SE then is rapidly dropped down towards earth as it fades like a meteor falling to earth. It reappeared suddenly back in sky near SE and brightened then moved to a position right below Saturn. It stayed stationary for a minute then brighten and grew in size and started to move vertically until it was high above Saturn. It then stopped brightened and grew until it was difficult to look at then shrunk and dimmed and brighten and grew once more and then dimmed and shrunk and shot sideways toward the west! and faded to nothing quickly like a shooting star across sky.

Summary Description: Bright round object, grows,brightens, dulls,and shrinks multiple times as it moves around SE sky.

Posted 2020-08-20