NUFORC Sighting 43388

Occurred: 2005-04-08 21:30 Local
Reported: 2005-04-09 13:09 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Kansas City, KS, USA

Shape: Circle


saw a growing burst of brilliant white light that slowly dimmed out of existance

At approximately 21:30 Friday April 8th, 2005, as my wife, Joy and I sat in our hot tub we both saw in the East/South East sky a brilliant white 'star'. But there is more to this event than just seeing. I was hoping to see Jupiter, which I heard was going to be visible in the southeast sky this week. When I saw this star (and I am just using the word 'star'for reference)I said to my wife, "There's Jupiter". The moment I said this the 'star suddenly grew in size and brilliance-just as if something turned a light on using a dimmer switch very quickly to its brightest and then slowly dimming it until it completely dissappeared. The size difference-though hard to describe with such a distance-was like first seeing the point of a sharp pencil which then expands to the size of an unsharpened pencil and back to nothing. Both my wife and I asked each other at the same moment "Did you see that?" Object was seen head on and did not move in any direction.



NUFORC Note:

Possible Iridium satellite. PD


Posted 2005-04-16

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