NUFORC Sighting 173950

Occurred: 2023-01-15 18:30 Local
Reported: 2023-01-15 17:16 Pacific
Duration: 1 min 30 at most
No of observers: 2

Location: Iuka, MS, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

A star pulled my attention to the sky. It quickly became the brightest in the sky. It split info two light moving in opposite direct…

Jan 15th at 6:30 pm in the northeast corner of MS. Walking back out to my vehicle to unload groceries, my attention was pulled upward by what looked like a star that quickly became the brightest thing in the sky. This intense light suddenly split into two lights that were traveling in opposite directions. Not exactly but almost dead east to west. The light traveling east sped up more than the west traveling light. After a few moments the west traveling light slowed then moved in many different directions then stopped. The east traveling light never changed directions but dimmed until it’s light went out for maybe a second after going dark you could see the objects outline. It then disappeared leaving the west moving light to seem to move for a bit then stop then move a bit then stop after 15 seconds of random movement it stopped in the sky to appear as another star. I have taken many night photos of the stars from my iPhone. I have never had an issue before but on this occasion my iPhone would not focus at all. The whole screen went blurry and when I tapped on the object to focus on it acted like it couldn’t find an object to focus on.

Posted 2023-03-06