NUFORC Sighting 91724

Occurred: 2012-08-11 11:45 Local
Reported: 2012-08-12 00:23 Pacific
Duration: 5-20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Portland (Garden Home), OR, USA

Shape: Formation

"Stars" moving around, changing position, and appear to be in a formation.

This evening my wife and I decided to go outside and look for "shooting stars." As we lay out on the hammock, I saw four distinct points in the stars that I first assumed to be either part of a constellation or random stars--as it formed an uneven square. Since we were looking for shooting stars, I paid close attention to the sky. Within 5 minutes of being outside, I noticed the bottom left point was moving to the right, and the bottom right point was moving away from the square. Soon thereafter, the former bottom right point continued moving until it disappeared. At the same time, a new point was moving upwards toward the former square and towards the bottom left point. I was aghast, surprised, and while my wife reprimanded me on my use of profanity--it is Summer, and my neighbor's windows are open--I noticed the former bottom left, new bottom right point move upwards slightly. About 10 minutes later the upper left point was moving slightly! to the left, and up, away from the uneven square.

Although I am not a physicist, astronomer, or cosmologist, I am aware that "stars" do not move left, right, or upwards; "stars" do not assume the position of other "stars." What did I see? I've never before seen anything like this before, even when out in the middle of the country, where the stars are even brighter.

Posted 2012-08-19