NUFORC Sighting 159582

Occurred: 2020-09-27 02:50 Local
Reported: 2020-09-27 03:48 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Tucson (North of; Pima Co.), AZ, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

Pulsing white light Spherical object

On 09/27/2020 at 0250 hours, I was in my backyard looking East. I observed a spherical object of white pulsing light. From my compass app I determined that object was bouncing from 80 degrees East to 92 degrees. The object would dim and brighten, at it’s brightest it would jump to a spot covering up to 5 degrees per jump. It took about 15 to 20 seconds to complete this cycle from dimming to jump to the next coordinate. The movement started to the lower left bouncing up about 5 degrees and to the right also about 5 degrees. The compete cycle from the lower left position to the top right position, then reversed until the object roughly returned to the starting position. No sounds were heard from this object. The object blinked out at 0305 hours. My location was 37•17’49”N 110•51’51”W at Place of observation. The object was due East of my position at about 40• above the horizon. There were no ground lights visible between my position and the object. It was a t! ypically Dark Tucson night. The strangest part of the sighting is the object was almost over the Mount Lemmon Observatory! There are several observatories in that general area. Please contact me with any questions you may have. Please ensure a copy of this gets to Peter.

Posted 2020-11-05