NUFORC Sighting 71707

Occurred: 2009-08-15 23:59 Local
Reported: 2009-08-17 10:40 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Rose City, MI, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Orange Glowing Object traveling in lower skies

Around midnight on 8/15/09, Lake Ogemaw Michigan, I looked up into the sky and noticed a glowing orange object moving at a steady pace. It looked circular in shape but it also had a star-burst/multi-star spike shape on the front of the object. The distance from the ground to the object seemed fairly low (approx 1 mile up) I have never seen anything like this before, it looked odd. One of the other observers mentioned that it could have been some sort of satellite coasting the sky, but I have never seen one, so I cannot comment one way or another. By the time I went to get my camera, the object had passed on and could not be seen.

Posted 2009-08-27