NUFORC Sighting 60330

Occurred: 2007-12-10 16:45 Local
Reported: 2007-12-12 12:13 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Barre, VT, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Comet-like object moving very slowly east over Barre, Vermont

From Barre, Vermont About 6:45 pm Monday evening (Dec. 10) I came home from work and looked up in the sky. It was a bit hazy, but almost directly overhead the sky was clear. I saw what looked like a "blobby" mass, at first thought it was the Pleaides, but they were farther to the east. I watched it for 5 minutes or so and it didn’t appear to move, or if it did it did so very slowly.

It looked very much like the photos I took of Halley’s Comet in Australia during the period of time when there was no tail.

I tried to find the list of comets in the "Farmer’s Almanac," but none were listed in the 2008 edition.

After about 10-15 minutes inside I went back outside with binoculars to look at it more closely, but it was gone. It didn’t seem to be moving fast enough to have gone out of my field of view so I can’t explain why I couldn’t see it the second time (this would have been shortly after 7 pm or so).

Posted 2008-03-04