NUFORC Sighting 172351

Occurred: 2022-10-15 19:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-10-15 19:02 Pacific
Duration: Maybe 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Asheville, NC, USA
Location details: North Asheville/Woodfin area

Shape: Light

A sign Gale moving light that would fade out and seem to reappear behind itself or maybe there were multiples.

My neighbor and I were on my back deck October 15th, 2022 at around 7:45pm facing north westward with a pretty good view of the sky. There are trees surrounding the observable sky with one black walnut in particular north north west that is fairly close to the house but at this time of year has minimal leaves. I don’t know who saw it first but we both ended up seeing bright lights that appeared one at a time in the sky beyond the walnut tree. I stood to get an unobstructed view from a smaller tree branch. A bright white light slowly moved up the sky 1-2 inches or so from my viewpoint and faded out. It was then immediately replaced by a similar light not exactly on the same trajectory but close and the starting point was behind where the previous light ended. Could be that one light was circling back around and then showing itself again or a few different lights lit up one after the other but were from different sources. I don’t know. The light did not seem to be a reflection but self emanating. My neighbor reported thinking it had a cross shape within the light that rotated but my eyes only saw a round light. It happened five or six times in a span of approximately 10-15 seconds. We stood staring at the sky for a few minutes then saw one more light doing the same thing (appearing, moving in a similar direction, then fading out) however this light was off more to the West. We had been looking at the bats, and pointing out the first stars, and watching planes fly over far in the distance so we made note that there were no planes flying in the north or west that we saw during the time of the event.

Posted 2022-12-22