NUFORC Sighting 11827

Occurred: 1999-05-05 03:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2000-01-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Boston, MA, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

star like object getting brighter and brighter and then moving slowly out of sight

I went up on the roof of my Chinatown apartment at 3 am. It seemed to be cloudy as only two stars could be seen, one almost diretly overhead and a very bright one in the ssw sky at aprox. 40 degrees above the horiz. I was looking at what I thought was this star in the southern sky when it quickly doubled it's brightness and seemed to get a bit bigger too, this happened again, and then again, until it seemed to have rays of light coming off of it as one might draw a star. I ran down stairs to get my roomate and brought her up on the roof within a few minutes. I pointed to it and told her what happened. It began to move slowly toward the east and was soon obscurred by a building. She insisted it was a plane. We both went inside at this point and went to bed.

Posted 2000-02-16

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