NUFORC Sighting 66207

Occurred: 2008-10-09 21:05 Local
Reported: 2008-10-13 09:44 Pacific
Duration: A few seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Colo

A UFO only in that the phenomena is currently unidentified.

I was walking my dog at approx. 9:05 p.m., from north to south. I just happened to glance skyward and I saw a bright flash with a tail travel rapidly across the sky in a roughly west to east direction. The object's brightness grew in intensity to a bright blue-white light and rapidly faded out as it travelled across the sky. From what I can recall (I haven't had a chance to post something until now), I believe the object was slightly below the moon at that time.

I'm a casual aerospace/astronomy enthusiast and have seen lots of shooting stars before, but this seemed bigger, brighter and more prominent. It appeared to travel slightly slower than a usual shooting star as well. I don't think this was an alien spacecraft; but could it have been some space junk re-entering the atmosphere or perhaps an iridium flare? The only reason why I'm not sure about an iridium flare is because it did seem to have a flaming tail to it, but it could have been an illusion.

Posted 2008-10-31

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