NUFORC Sighting 28813

Occurred: 2002-01-21 06:45 Local
Reported: 2003-05-17 11:10 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Left a trail

I was watching the moon from my daughter's bedroom window, this served as the monitor. My nieces and nephews were assigned an astronomy project, it was city-wide, and the subject was to study the different phases of the moon. Heavy cloud cover the night before had hidden the moon, also there were no entries on my calendars for a moon viewing. I awoke early, it was a cold, crisp, clear morning. I was restless, I always look out the window. The moon was the biggest that i had ever remembered, it looked as if there was a red spot on it, I got my binoculars but couldn't make out the spot. Anyway, dawn was approaching, the rays of the sun were visible, thought I was going to see the moon and the sun in the same frame. As i was watching the rays of the sun come up, a cigar shaped thing, moving extremely fast, came up from either a stationary position or a hovering position, and flew right across the face of the moon at a 45 degree angle. I thought, you've just seen a ufo. I called my father and told him.

Posted 2003-05-27