NUFORC Sighting 165714

Occurred: 2021-12-03 18:30 Local
Reported: 2021-12-04 18:58 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 3

Location: Mobile, AL, USA
Location details: Mobile, Alabama in the Ashmoor & Westchester subdivisions located in west Mobile near the airport.

Shape: Rectangle
Explanation: Starlink - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

I saw a long row of lights with a slight haze around them that appeared to have no wings or tail and flying in a non-typical fashion.

In early evening of Friday, Dec 3, 2021, around 6:25pm I was walking around the block on my usual two-mile walk. I reside in the Ashmoor subdivision located in the western portion in the city of Mobile, Al. The neighborhood I was in when I spotted the object in the sky is Westchester, which is adjacent to my neighborhood. It was already fully dark outside.

I had just left Ashmoor subdivision and entered the Westchester subdivision. My route takes me to Westchester Ln S in the direction of Grelot Rd. When I turned left onto Westchester Ln S off of Westchester Run, I immediately noticed a long glowing object to my West not far above the tree line that made me first think of a comet. As I continued to walk and focus on the object, I realized it was not as far away as I had first thought and was slowly moving to the northeast. My thoughts then shifted to this being a blimp. I then noticed that this object was flying in a very peculiar way.

I could see what were small individual lights in perfect formation forming what would be a long straight row of lights in a possible rectangle or disk shape with no apparent wings or tail. The strange thing was the way the object was maintaining its altitude, however, in the direction it was flying, the front of the row of lights were much lower than lights in what would be the rear of the object.

I then ruled this out as a blimp because there were no lights on top, front or rear of the object. It also appeared much too narrow to be a blimp. The object was also too long to be a helicopter. My last thought was ok, this has to be an airplane, however, there were no lights where there would normally be if the object had wings or a tail; there was only one long straight row of lights.

I quickly called home and had my wife and son go outside and look to their north. I stayed on the phone and asked them if they saw the object. They were only about 1 to 2 blocks away from my location. They both said they saw the object and I asked my son to also take a photo and a video if he had time. My son snapped the picture that you will see attached to the form. The photo I took did not come out clearly.

After I snapped my photo and my son confirmed he had taken one, I was going to take a video and I also asked him to video the object but in the few seconds we had been occupied snapping our photos, the object was gone. At the rate of speed it had been moving in the total time I had viewed it, over about 30 seconds I’m guessing, it still should have been visible before it flew over the tree line. It must have accelerated in the few seconds we were looking down to swipe from photo to video on our phones and when I looked up it was no longer anywhere to be seen.

The object can be found on the attached photo to the lower right of the bright planet or star in the center of the sky. The object is also almost straight above the bright streetlight you can see in front of the house straight ahead. The object was moving to the right as you look at the photo. As you can see the front of the object was pitched way down in comparison to the rear. The object remained pitched forward like this the whole time I viewed it, about 30 seconds, and it did not appear to be decreasing its altitude.

Posted 2021-12-19