NUFORC Sighting 168347

Occurred: 2022-05-15 22:33 Local
Reported: 2022-05-16 18:46 Pacific
Duration: approx 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Bemidji, MN, USA
Location details: E/NE Outside my house

Shape: Light


Bright light that didn't behave like a satellite

While I was watching the lunar eclipse with my binoculars, it was a very clear, starry night, with very few clouds. A little bit earlier I had watched a satellite overhead, then noticed another very bright light in sky. I immediately thought that it must be the ISS, because it was so bright and was tracking in a relatively straight line E to NE quadrant of sky. There was no sound at all, so knew it wasn’t a plane, and it seemed like it was higher altitude than a plane would be. As I tracked with binoculars, the light’s apparent motion seemed to “slow down” in that it never left the NE quadrant of the sky it was in. It no longer behaved like a “normal” satellite that goes straight across from horizon to horizon. It kept getting lower and lower in the sky (but not dimmer), which made me think from its apparent motion that it had changed direction, and was moving away from my position/vantage point. After a couple of minutes, it disappeared beyond the horizon. The light or object or whatever it was, was quite bright the most of the time I saw it. It went from being a “stable” light that didn’t flicker or jostle as it moved, to then starting to “jostle” and move around (like the tip of a sparkler when you wave it around). That’s how it looked in the binocs, at least. I did not behave like a comet, meteor, or anything like that.

Posted 2022-06-22

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