Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It just looked like a star gone wild! Except for the glow over the mountains at the end of the sighting their was no color or contrail. I do not recall anything about colorization regarding the glow. It has been a long time and it not an account I tell many friends or aquaintances, for obvious reasons.It was

Size of Object(s)

Just a pin point in the night sky

Description of Area / Surroundings

We were on the highway and then stopped to observe. It was in a rural mountain area otherwise... probably not far from Biship.

Full Description & Details

The object appeared at first to be a shooting star. It then captured my complete attention by moving very fast and zig zagging in a small area of the sky. It then rapidly flew a great distance over us and ended by disappearing from our vision behind the Mt. Whitney range. At that time the sky glowed behind the mountains for a few seconds and it was over. I asked Dad about its being a UFO or something natural. My father was a pilot in the airforce and head of the science department at a college near our home so I was excited when he confirmed it was nothing he could explain. When I asked him if we should report it, he was clear that we should not. We did tell my mother when we returned home, but her reaction was one of dismissal and embarrassment that we should affirm such a thing. It really irritated her ,so I have only brought it up to her once after my dad passed and she still did not accept that we had seen anything truly unusual and refused to talk of it. The sighting was probably in the summer of 1974, but I am not certain.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

Not according to my father ,whose opinion I respected.

Witness Background

I am college educated and currently working at the college I attended. I am 55 and would have been in my mid twenties when the sighting took place.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

My views have not changed much, as far as I have always tried to remain open to possibilities. I of course feel fortunate to have seen something in the realm of the fantastic.

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