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I was in the Walmart parking lot, by one of those big parking lot lights. I was admiring the full moon, which was bigger than normal and had a slight auburn color to it. I was forward facing the direct east direction. Then something in my peripheral vision caught my attention, towards the left, northeast direction. I stared for a few seconds while my brain tried to rationalize what exactly it was. At first I figured it was plane, but there weren't any blinking lights usually indicative of a man made object. It was also very much brighter than the surrounding sky and it had a definitive shape. I could best describe the shape as similar to an astrocytes in the brain. The object was at the time, higher in the sky than the moon, which was much closer to the horizon line. The brightness sligghtly increased momentarily, as well as the size of the asterocyte-oid shape, lasting approx 2-3.5 seconds. Then the brightness, size, and shape began to decrease gradually as it traced a path across the sky, towards (what was my vantage point) the northeast, as the moon was directly positioned in the east. The depreciation process of brightness, size and shape lasted approx 3 seconds. It moved noticbly slower than other meteorites I've witnessed and I'm in the astronomy club, so I've seen countless. The brightness, size, and shape tapered off until I could only see a brightness comparable to just slightly brighter than the starlight in the background, yet it was still distinguishable from said background stars as it was still moving across the sky, towards the northeast direction. Then it moved beyond my vantage, as a building (Walmart) was directly to the north of me. I didn't notice any sort of trail remnant -possibly because the object came at a face-on angle in regards to my position, accompanied with its level of brightness. Or possibly because it was it was simply too dark to see it. I didn't notice the singular object ever producing an additional or any multiple subsequent objects or points of light. |
