NUFORC Sighting 2671

Occurred: 1997-08-10 23:30 Local
Reported: 1997-08-20 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Bellingham, WA, USA

Shape: light

Summary : Saw a dim moving light. Thought I was watching a satellite. Yellow light flashed brilliantly, then faded to near invisibility. It was a clear night and I was out to watch the Perseid meteor shower.

I am a university teacher who has lived in Bellingham for 7 years. I am interested in UFO phenomena, but have never seen anything unusual before. On the evening of August 10, 1997, I was outside at 11:30 pm watching for shooting stars when I saw what I thought was a satellite. It was very dim, almost invisible, and I only noticed it because of the faint movement. As I watched, the "satellite" suddenly flashed a brilliant yellow light. The original light in the sky was barely a pinprick, but the flash was as large as my pinky nail held at arms length. After the flash, the "satellite" seemed to disappear. I could then make out faint movement and a tiny pinprick of light and then the object flashed again. It moved in an east-to-west trajectory and flashed about every ten seconds until it went out of my line of sight. I estimate that I watched the object for approximately 2, maybe 3 minutes. I went inside, through the house, to see if it was visible from my front porch! (I had been on my back deck). It wasn't. I wonder is anyone else has seen something similar?

Posted 1999-01-28