NUFORC Sighting 09770

Occurred: 1999-09-12 12:45 Local
Reported: 1999-09-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5-7 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Navajo (15 miles west of, on I-40 Eastbound), AZ, USA

Shape: Oval

Was Driving east on I-40 and notices the oval/ovid shape at NNE direction. white and moving west

I am a truck driver and witnessed the object on a clear sky day. was curious as it's shape was inconsistent with conventional aircraft. tried to follow it as long as i could and lost it after about 6(?) minutes. It started out being very clear and easy to define shape and stayed that way for 3-4 minutes and then began to fade and began to have a less defined or fuzzy edges and then I lost sight of it and searched for a couple of minutes to try and reaquire sight of it and could not. The object was white and appeared to have a stipe of another color around the horizontal center of the oval. I cannot be sure of the stripe color as I have a 30% red-green color deficency (Tested)in my vision. I have 3 1/2 years of college education and am not convinced that we could possibly be alone inthe universe. I am a visual artist and photographer. (did not have camera available to me at the time)

Posted 2001-08-05