It was nine thirty at night and I was outside on my back patio. I have made it a habit to watch the sky and the treelines with my digital nightvision monocular.. I like to observe the wonders of the universe and with NV you can see stars that you normally cannot. I was scanning the North when I heard the roar of what I knew to be a fighter jet. We have a big USAF base here and I have gotten used to seeing and hearing various jet fighter aircraft. So I am scanning the sky trying to find the strobes on the fighter jet I am hearing when I pan to the left, which is West, and notice a very bright star. I continue panning to my left.. looking South.. then I move back to my right because it has become obvious to me that the sound cannot be in that direction. As I do I notice that that bright star isn't exactly where it was before. I must admit that it is surreal when something that your mind has acknowledged as staionary suddenly isn't. The things was moving..or so I thought it was... So I moved close to my privacy fence gate and lined up the object with a stationary reference point to see if it was indeed moving.. it was... I grabbed my Droid and selected pictures at 4X zoom. I shot six images through the digital night vision device as I watched in awe as this huge white "thing" - which by now obviously WASN'T a star - slowly ease across the sky..totally silent which only added to the extreme creepiness of the situation.It moved towards me (Easterly direction) then made a gentle 90 degree arc moving South. I kept it in my viewfinder when suddenly it was gone. I could not reacquire it. It just vanished.I wanted to go and grab the wife, pull her outside and show it to her but I was afraid she wouldn't see it or maybe it would be gone any second.. or maybe disturbing her while she's watching TV wouldn't be a prudent thing to do..

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