Creepy experiences in the backcountry

[24valve]

Enjoyed reading this thread over the past year and finally had one of my one while mule deer hunting in CO earlier this fall.. We found a weird circle of rocks complete with an little rock altar and deer bones underneath a nearby ledge.

 

[Braaap]

My buddy saw a fast moving orb or ball of light moving through a canyon yesterday morning while we were hiking in the dark to a glassing spot. He said if he was alone he would have booked it back to the truck. This is northern NV. There wasn’t any noise associated with it.

So I posted this a little over a month ago. I filled my tag on opening morning but he didn’t so he went back at the end of October and brought along a friend of his. His buddy ended up seeing the same thing (ball of light or orb) but this time it was in the evening and several canyons over from his sighting. Weird.

 

[Ditt44]

Had an odd experience two weeks ago. About 5:45 AM, cold, clear sky. Orion's belt is to my right, between 45 and 50 degrees inclination. A large, bright object comes from the north to south moving in a straight line. No blinking, no colors at all, just the 'bright yellow/white' light... or reflection of the sun? The object was perhaps 5 degrees below Orion. First thought was it is the ISS as I have seen that in the past numerous times....

This object moved very quickly, traversing the entire visible sky in maybe 20 seconds. What helped place it in perspective is when it crossed above a jet liner with a well defined contrail. The jet was moving mostly east to west. The object was much higher and no contrail. I looked up the location of the ISS at that time. It was over Ohio. I'm in south central PA. No way I saw the ISS.

May have been another large satellite. Most odd thing I have seen in the sky in a very long time. I love getting out early, like an hour before day light and spend a lot of that time star-gazing.

 

[Warmsy]

Had an odd experience two weeks ago. About 5:45 AM, cold, clear sky. Orion's belt is to my right, between 45 and 50 degrees inclination. A large, bright object comes from the north to south moving in a straight line. No blinking, no colors at all, just the 'bright yellow/white' light... or reflection of the sun? The object was perhaps 5 degrees below Orion. First thought was it is the ISS as I have seen that in the past numerous times....

This object moved very quickly, traversing the entire visible sky in maybe 20 seconds. What helped place it in perspective is when it crossed above a jet liner with a well defined contrail. The jet was moving mostly east to west. The object was much higher and no contrail. I looked up the location of the ISS at that time. It was over Ohio. I'm in south central PA. No way I saw the ISS.

May have been another large satellite. Most odd thing I have seen in the sky in a very long time. I love getting out early, like an hour before day light and spend a lot of that time star-gazing.

That's my morning routine with coffee. Here in northern California I'll see one or more shooting stars often, and I make my wish. I was told as a youngin that if you share your wish it won't come true.

 

[Ditt44]

Was not a shooting star. That was the next morning, bright yellow/pink and "poof". This bright object arched out of sight over the horizon.