NUFORC Sighting 102750

Occurred: 2013-09-18 21:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-09-28 22:43 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Left a trail

Light in Sky Warps towards space.

On either Wednesday September 18th or Thursday September 19th my wife and I were enjoying a glass of wine on our porch. I was looking into the clear night sky, reminiscing of my childhood summer evenings. Where I slept outside under the stars noticing the occasional satellite pass over, dreaming of seeing a UFO. As I was looking to the North at the handle of the Big Dipper I noticed what I thought to be a satellite traversing the night sky. I pointed it out to my wife and she also took notice. As the perceived satellite headed in a North Easterly direction it abruptly made what looked like an almost instant 90 degree arc towards outer space. It diminished to nothing at that point in about 1 second as it passed the 3rd star in the Big Dippers handle.

We have inbound air traffic for Sea-Tac International airport. I can tell you this was not a case of mistaken common phenomena in my area. It was not a plane, jet nor meteorite (I have never seen anything burn up heading out of our atmosphere. The object in question looked to be in a low Earth orbit. It was definitely beyond the atmosphere of the planet. Whatever IT was,IT was not conventional...

Posted 2013-09-30