Congratulations Rich, you are officially a "Crack-Pot". We all know that anyone who sees a UFO is nuts, therefore you are nuts. However I will accept drunk or O.D'd on prescription drugs as a substitute. Seriously. Your sighting is one of the more common type of sightings, similar to the now famous or infamous "Phoenix Lights Incident" or the "Hudson Valley sightings" some years back and the Belgium sightings in the early 90's, so if this is military it may in fact be a fairly old design, it's been around for a few decades. This type of sightings is often described as a large craft, wedge or boomerang shaped with lights along the edges. Still, I suspect this is a secret military aircraft. Personally I believe most UFO sightings are secret aircraft however some may not be of U.S. origin. Stealth Technology has been using wedge designs for a long time, consider the F-17 and B-1 as examples. The earliest Flying wing design were noted for having very small radar cross sections and have been around since the 30's. However, the location near the Big Dipper causes a small pause for me, if you said it was out west it would be a no-brainer as that is where the test range is from you, there are no test ranges north of us, not that we can see anyway, there are some up north in Idaho, so who knows. If you feel inclined MUFON collects these types of sighting reports for their database. And no, I don't think you're nuts, a Crack-pot, drunk or O.D.'d. Like so many people you saw something you couldn't explain and now have a cool story to tell. Bob -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Richard Tenney Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:00 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] UFO tonight I'm actually a little shaken up as I write this. I was outside in my front yard with the 6" newtonian, showing my daughter and her boyfriend the orion nebula and the moon (as well as an excuse to try out the 9 nagler Debbie sold me last week :). We were standing there talking about the night sky, when my daughter, looking toward the big dipper, shouted, "oh my gosh, what is that?!" I quickly looked up, and saw something very strange. It looked like a "V" shaped object, faint and shimmery, dotted with 6? faint lights, moving ESE. I (you didn't hear me say this) had my laser in my hand, and hit it with the laser, and said, "you mean that?", No reflection, so it was some distance up, rather large, and it was moving faster than any aircraft I know of, and completely silent -- absolutely no engine noise. Way too fast angular momentum to be a conventional aircraft (and the fact that the laser didn't light it up, meant it wasn't an owl or something close flying over my house). I've never seen anything like it. It was about 9:30 p.m. Thoughts...? _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com