This was shocking to me; I've read lots of UFO sighting accounts over the years but never one that described the exact object I saw over 30 years ago at the age of 12 or so. I lived in Watertown, NY at the time and my family had taken me to Syracuse (roughly 72 miles SSE) on a shopping trip. We were returning to Watertown and the sun had set minutes before. I was seated in the back with my head tilted back watching the stars through the back window when I saw this bright object moving into the orange glow of the setting sun. It's brightness diminished and I just assumed it was a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere (I was into astronomy early in life). But within 10 minutes it came back on a reverse trajectory and it was then that I realized it hadn't "burnt up", but rather that it was pulsing, with the duration matching Mark's description above. It seemed to be leaving a very short briefly visible trail behind it at the brightest point of it's pulse, like the afterimage from a sparkler being waved through the air. Once it reached apogee, at a 12 o'clock position in the sky almost directly above the car (but apparently at extremely high altitude), we seemed to be more or less keeping pace with it for the next 20-30 minutes until we reached my Aunt's house in Paddy Hill outside Watertown. We then pointed it out to her and talked outside as we watched it continue to move across the sky until it was out of site beyond the trees. I have seen several unidentified objects in the years since that night, but never one that had that slow pulse to full brightness and back. I've tracked asyncronous satellites from horizon to horizon in the years since but have never seen nor heard of anything that does this odd pulsing either. If someone knows of anything natural or man made that could exhibit such behavior I would be interested to know.

Adam Madill
Sanford, FL

At a approxamatly 2215 hours on 6 29 2009 I witnessed a similar pulsing object tracking from SSW to NNE in Colusa County, CA. The object at first looked like a regular satellite (height and speed) but then faded. To my surprise it illuminated again then regularly pulsed on and off on a full track across the sky. The timing of the pulses varied a bit but was on about 2 secs then off for approx 2 secs. Looking up visible sats on Heavens Above the time of Lacrosse was about right but the track of the one my wife and I saw was too far south.

We are not alone! Er, I mean "we" that have seen this same orange, pulsating phenomena. I saw what seems to have been the same thing about 35 years ago as a young boyscout in Alabama. On an all night camping trip in the mountains, two other scouts called to me and another boy to come top of the ridge where they were.

These guys were very excited and pointed to the top of an adjacent ridge top and said they had seen a strange light land there. We all waited and looked and then there was a bright double flash and an object that was about "high moon" size pulsated to life with an orange, plasmic looking glow for a few seconds and then faded to dark for a few seconds. When it "pulsed" again it was higher in the sky. This repeated six times with the object higher in the sky each time. After the sixth time we saw it no more.

The distance between the ridge we were on and the one "it" took of from, I estimate to be maybe 3-5 miles as the crow flies. On full pulse, the interior of the "orb" was, as I said plasma like and kind of swirled and churned like liquid fire in a glass globe if that makes any sense.

Even at that age, I knew what we saw couldn't be easily explained. I tried then, and since, to think of any explanation for what I saw and always come up zilch.

The advent of the internet led me to research if anyone else had seen this and I have found that "we are not alone." Punch in orange pulsating light into google. Weed out the obvious chinese lanterns and here and there are others who have seen this truly unexplainable sighting.

just posted to MUFON:

8-30-09 very bright pulsating object moving S to NE

i was initially hesitant to report this incident, since i'm wanting something closer to ground like the 7-2-9 craft. but when i read report 18992, i had to document that my partner and i saw the EXACT SAME OBJECT as witnessed by the CT resident. however, we saw this on 8-30-2009 at approx 945-950pm CT and they stated it was 8-31 at 9:45pm ET. perhaps they made a typo-error on the date?

we were standing in back of a strip mall on about 25th and Capehart Rd. in Bellevue, NE. as usual these days, we proceeded to scan the sky for anomalies. a VERY BRIGHT silver-white flash caught my eye in the NE corner of sky in the area of Cassiopeia. like the CT witness, i thought it was likely just a plane strobe, but then realized there were no other standard nav lights. i then asked her to check this thing out, and we both perceived it was moving steadily in a NE direction and pulsating at regular intervals. unlike the CT person, we couldn't see any other regular pin point of light or other object d\t city lights. my estimate was that it pulsated every 10-12 seconds for about 6-7 times, then left our view. i have no idea at what height it traveled. i would say it moved faster than most satellites i've seen or the ISS, which was nowhere near us at that time.

this will probably be found to be a new type of satellite or maybe space debris. but i've never seen one that flashed this brightly at regular intervals and there was no burn trail that one would expect with debris. it was also odd that it didn't seem to cross the whole sky, just the NE quadrant.

Just witnessed the same as was posted in Jon from Omaha. About 15 min ago.

This is a posting on MUFON that I feel should be also posted here since there seems to be a very possible pattern here. Perhaps this is a military or comm satellite. But as this guy from Idaho stated he couldn't find anything via web search.

9-25-2009 Slow moving object emited a series of bright strobe flashes as it tracked across the sky ID, US

A friend and myself were camping at a U.S. Forest Service campground along the middle fork of the Boise River in Idaho. The campground was dubbed 'Troutville' and is located approximately 1/3rd of the way to Atlanta on Middle Fork Road from Arrowrock Dam. I'm a big star gazer and amateur astronomer and haven't been away from city lights for a number of years, so I was taking the opportunity to soak in as much as I could. I had already witnessed about 10 satellites in orbit when, at approximately 11 PM (I forgot my watch and my friend forgot the car charger for her cellphone and her battery was kaput, so I had no means of checking the time exactly) while looking at an area of the sky to the northwest around the constellations of Perseus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda, I saw what appeared to me as one of those 'aerial bombs' that go off at firework shows (the ones that are just a mere flash of white light but produce a huge concussion). I focused on the spot that the flash happened at and began to wonder what would make such a bright flash. I asked my friend if she saw it as well, and she had. About 20 seconds later it happened again in what appeared to be the very same spot. My friend was no longer looking at that spot and I informed her that it had happened again and we began to discuss scenarios that might explain the phenomenon, from a new pulsar to a ground based defense laser firing at a target satellite to sunlight reflecting off of individual solar panels on the ISS and countless other things that might explain it. Even though I witnessed a massive 'black boomerang' in 1994 that was undoubtedly an E.T., I'm not the type to assume that every anomaly in the sky is a visitor from another planet. I decided that if I saw it any more times that I would time it to see whether it was reoccurring at precise intervals. When it happened the third time I started counting out loud "One thousand one. One thousand two, etc", and I also moved so that the top of a pine tree was horizontal to where it happened at, this way I could tell if it was moving, if at all. When I counted out to 20 it happened again but I couldn't be sure if it had moved any. When the next flash occurred it was at the 18 count, and I could tell that it was indeed moving, albeit very slowly, from the region of the constellation of Andromeda towards Perseus. The next time it happened I had counted all the way to 22 and it had become noticeably dim, but was still rather bright. By means of averaging my inaccurate counts I figure it was happening every 20 seconds exactly. It happened 3 more times, and each time it's luminosity was markedly diminished from the time before, such that I couldn't tell if it continued on and reached a range where the light had become insignificant to my perception, or simply fizzled out. The entire event took approximately 3 minutes, and the object only traversed an area of sky which I can only describe as a measure of 'about the distance between my thumb and index finger appear to be when my arm is fully outstretched'. When I got back to Boise I started doing research online to see if what I had witnessed was indeed a known phenomena, but every search parameter I've tried has turned up nothing, so I figured I'd file it here. If this is something that's already been researched and explained by MUFON, could you send me an email at the address that I've included with this form to let me know what it was? Thanks a bunch.

16th of october 2009
time 21.10 bst

south-south east

I was ouside and noticed a strange light in the sky, at first i thought it was a star'but all of a sudden it became really bright. It stayed bright for about 45 seconds then went back to being a star! Then about in 6o seconds it became bright again, i thought to myself'very odd. so i went up to my shed and got out my 300x reflector teloscope, this light was moving in a fixed orbit' and seamed to be the shape of an egg!!! from where i was standing' it seamed to be tracking north, in the end i went to bed. any idea's anyone?

Phil smith