NUFORC Sighting 85909

Occurred: 2011-12-11 20:08 Local
Reported: 2011-12-17 13:13 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Washington, DC, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Emitted beams

Luminous object thought to be a star?

Taking random sky scans using 200 mm F 2.8 lens @ 20000 ISO, I decided to take stationary platform shots of the stars on a relatively clear night. I fired 23 continuous frames in high speed mode using a RC D700 Nikon. I focused on the stars and started taking a series of rapid fire images. I had to focus on a star, and set the lens to manual, then start the burst of frames with the remote control.

When I loaded the data into the computer, one of the objects thought to be a star was in motion. The samples show the object, though in a straight flight trajectory, the frames show this object was sweeping, each exposure sample showed a different flight angular positioning of this object relative to the stars around it. I have 19 continuous frames showing this object taken from a RC camera* It was luminous like the stars*, and way up in the sky, it would not have been visible by the human eye*

Posted 2012-01-12

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