Oxford, 19/9/08, 10:30 pm
Location: Almost due West from
our description; slightly higher than a cruising aeroplane
and approximately the
same size.
Message: My Dad and
myself were in our garden and were gazing at
the sky
having just seen a shooting star. My Dad pointed out what he thought was
a satellite moving from north to south about halway in
between the horizon and
the point directly above
us.
We were shocked to see this object (which
emitted a light brighter than that of any stars in the
region), stop in it's
tracks and then move left and up in
a zig-zag pattern. It then stopped and hung
in the sky
several points south of due west. It occasionally emitted a thin
trail of light, presumably to follow the orbit of the
earth because, for more
than half an hour it did not
appear to move at all. We checked back after ten
minutes
and it was still present. I have continued to check often and now, after
another half hour, it seems to have disappeared.
We
agreed at the time
that it was too fast and too agile to
be plane, satellite or weather ballon and
far too high to
be a helicopter. I would estimate it to have been somewhere in
th e upper atmosphere. I have never seen an aircraft move
so quickly and then
stop completely
stationary.
This is the strangest thing I have ever seen
in the sky
Name: Sam
