NUFORC Sighting 180347

Occurred: 2023-11-03 09:59 Local
Reported: 2024-02-09 21:55 Pacific
Duration: seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Location details: sighting from the city of Quito from a building balcony

Shape: Orb
Color: white
Estimated Size: NA
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: I was looking south
Angle of Elevation: 34
Closest Distance: 75 km
Estimated Speed: NA

Sighting of a light orb when taking video of volcanic activity in the morning daytime

Was taking a vacation in quito and stayed in a friend's apartment which had a beautiful view of the Cotopaxi volcano. The whole time I was out there it was foggy and rainy except for the day I arrived and the day I left. When I arrived, we barely saw puffs of ash from the volcano so I didn't re ord anything until the last day when I saw a perfect view of the volcano. This time, however, I noticed a stream of smoke and ash coming out of the volcano and heading east. This is when I decided to take 1 minute videos of the activity. To my surprise, while I was taking the videos at one point I saw bird pass by and saw like a flash of light as I looked up but I didn't know if my cell phone captured it. I stopped recording that 1 minute video and immediately checked to see if I can see something and confirmed that it was also captured on the video. I best view of the orb comes in at around the 48 second mark when a bird passes by the field of vision (must zoom in as much as possible), you can see the orb just above the bird when it nears the volcano….but I also noticed that at the 42 second mark you can see the object closer to the stream of ash and smoke and twinkling in and out before you can clearly see it at the 48 second mark of the video and then it totally disappears. I was standing at the balcony of where I was staying.

Posted 2024-02-15