5/6/2009: Federal Way, WA, USA

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Occurred : 5/6/2009 21:36 (Entered as : 05/06/09 21:36) Reported: 5/6/2009 9:54:11 PM 21:54 Posted: 5/12/2009 Location: Federal Way, WA Shape: Duration: 200 ms Characteristics: There were lights on the object
Pinkish white light moved VERY RAPIDLY across the sky. At 9:36pm PDT on 05-06-09, I was on the front porch having a smoke. I then saw a very rapidly moving light, colored pinkish white, having an estimated magnitude of -6 to -8 on the stellar intensity scale, an altitude of less than 1 mile (there were stratus clouds at the time; this would have obscured it totally had it been any higher), and it had the apparent diameter of Jupiter as seen by the unaided eye. This light moved VERY RAPIDLY across the sky to the south-southwest (the total time it was visible is estimated to be 200ms or 1/5th of a second). When I first saw it, its azimuth appeared to be ~30°. There was no engine sound whatsoever (yes, I listened quite carefully for this), and it moved far too quickly to be a terrestial aircraft.

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 5/6/2009 21:36 (Entered as : 05/06/09 21:36)
Reported: 5/6/2009 9:54:11 PM 21:54
Posted: 5/12/2009
Location: Federal Way, WA
Shape:
Duration: 200 ms
Characteristics: There were lights on the object

Pinkish white light moved *VERY RAPIDLY* across the sky.

At 9:36pm PDT on 05-06-09, I was on the front porch having a smoke. I then saw a very rapidly moving light, colored pinkish white, having an estimated magnitude of -6 to -8 on the stellar intensity scale, an altitude of less than 1 mile (there were stratus clouds at the time; this would have obscured it totally had it been any higher), and it had the apparent diameter of Jupiter as seen by the unaided eye.

This light moved *VERY RAPIDLY* across the sky to the south-southwest (the total time it was visible is estimated to be 200ms or 1/5th of a second). When I first saw it, its azimuth appeared to be ~30°.

There was no engine sound whatsoever (yes, I listened quite carefully for this), and it moved far too quickly to be a terrestial aircraft.