Event Location: Cuenca, Ecuador

Date of Event: 22/01/08 Tuesday January 22, 2008

Time of Event (indicate AM or PM): 0020 GMT

Event Duration: 1 minute

Weather Conditions: partly cloudy, clear air

Abstract: A 61 year-old Ecuador man reported a star-like object traversed the night sky in approximately one minute on Tuesday. The eyewitness reports "I saw a white bright light but could not discern the shape traveling fast with no sound from South to North almost directly overhead, slightly East, in a straight line. The light didn't vary in intensity nor color, it was pure white and brighter than any star or even Jupiter. I am located in Cuenca, Ecuador, which is in the southern third of the country about 7 degrees south of the Equator in the Andes. The sky was 3/4 cloudy but with breaks sufficient to track the light visually as it was well above the cloud ceiling. I first noticed it while standing in my back yard simply looking up at the stars through the cloud breaks. The air was clear however. I first saw the light about 30 degrees off the Southern horizon and was able to track it intermittently through cloud breaks until about dead overhead, 90 degrees off the Western horizon. The sun had set about an hour before so it was not sun reflecting off a plane and it was going faster than any plane again with no sound at all. It traveled at a steady speed.

"I have never seen aircraft lights resembling this light. I'm age 61 and have lived in major airport cities all my life and I have excellent vision (corrected with slight prescription glasses). I didn't have time to rush in and grab my binoculars it was proceeding so fast. It took about 60 seconds estimated time to pass from 30 degrees off the Southern horizon to where I lost it due to solid clouds about 90 degrees perpendicular and slightly to the East of where I was standing. There was no wind nor interfering noise to blot out any noise form the light source. Cuenca has an airport but I know the standard approach and exit flight paths and since there was no wind there would be no reason for planes to deviate from the standard flight approaches and exits.

"I have no idea what the light source was but it was steady, silent, white, very bright, traveling straight and fast (over the clouds). I stood outside a few minutes to see if it would "come back" or if there were more and I didn't see anything moving in the night sky at all."

Name: Chuck (Full name on file)

Gender: M

Age: 61

City, State, Zip Code: Cuenca

Country: Ecuador

Reported?: yes

Witnesses: none

Number of Entities: 0

Did you see a UFO?: yes

Describe UFO: pinpoint of bright light moving straight South to North above broken clouds no sound no change in light, non flashing

Time loss/memory loss?: no

Photo(s)/Film/Video/Sketch available?: no

C1: Light form only

C12: Passed overhead

C17: Continuous flight

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