NUFORC Sighting 18241

Occurred: 2001-06-20 22:30 Local
Reported: 2001-06-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2mins
No of observers: 1

Location: Tunbridge Wells (UK/England), , United Kingdom

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

moving bright "star" made zigzag manouver and slowly faded

I was working at my computer and decided to take a break, it was around 22:30 gmt, I stepped out on to our patio and on looking up at the sky I noticed an aircraft quite low in the sky probably on an approach to Gatwick Airport, it was at that point that I noticed what appeared at first to be a large star moving in a Northery direction, it continued to move in this direction for around 45 seconds then made an extremely fast zigzag manouver and then slowly faded which gave the impression that it was moving away at a considerable speed.

Posted 2001-08-05