Size of Object(s)

larger than the star sirius

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

star distance

Shape of Object(s)

orb

Color of Object(s):

seemed a bit reddish/brown

Full Description & Details

aprroximately 9:30 PM on March 12, 2005 i was in my back yard and noticed a star to the right of sirius that was almost as bright and two stars below sirius that were not very bright forming a box shape. after i sat down i looked again and noticed that the bright star to the right wasnt there. I was absolutely sure i had seen it so i began looking for it. after about thirty seconds i saw a star flash(blink) but it was in a different position than when i first saw it. i sat and watched for a period of what seemed to be about ten minutes and after i saw it flash about five or six times (each time in a different position around sirius) i called otu to my wife to come from inside the house to see what i was witnessing. when she came outside she hadnt had a chance to look up yet when i saw an object blast out of the area i had been watching so closely and it began to move horizontally across the sky in an eastwardly direction. it was a rather large oval shaped object and it traveled much faster than anything i've ever seen. it moved only right to left but it definitely seemed as if it was being driven in a very direct path that led somewhere, almost like it was going somewhere. i picked up my cell phone and called a friend (my son's cub scout leader who, it turned out, was at a scout campout). he is in the rocket propulsion industry, is an astronomer and has a large solarium observatory at his home. when i explained what i had just seen he asked me to point out to him where in the sky i saw this because he was with several other friends/astronomers in a field at a campout. i told him it was due south of my backyard and west of south he would see a bright star. he told me that there are three stars that are part of orions belt that point at this bright star which i was told by him was sirius. he spotted it immediately and began to watch the area around sirius. immediately he witnessed the flashing star and noticed that it moved each time it showed itself. we watched it until it was out of vision and he told me that it was definitely not in this atmosphere......it wasnt a satellite and it wasnt a commercial aricraft of any sort......after we hung up i called several family members including my mother and told them what i had seen. the next morning my mother called me to tell me that later after i had talked with her she listened to a radio talk show host (art bell) on 610 AM radio here locally.evidently he is a well known UFO enthusiast. she told me that during his 1AM radio show that same night he had many callers from the oregon area and the southwest united states tell him that they witnessed a streaking object across the sky and that they also heard a sonic boom.

Witness Background

bail bondsman for thirty three years in miami, florida

Other Comments

unless this was a huge asteroid or something military that the public isnt aware of i feel that i have witnessed a space travel vehicle.....it was very strange that the object that flew away came from the exact area where the star was flashing..it indicates that possibly the flashing star was a base for the projectile or something>

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