Three Witnesses See Bright Pulsating Orange Object With Irregular Movement

Date of Sighting: November 16 2005
Time of Sighting: 9:19 PM PST
Date Reported: November 17, 2005
Duration of Sighting: Six Minutes
Location of Sighting: Penticton, British Columbia, Canada (Southeast British Columbia (About 120 Miles Northwest of Spokane, Washington)
Latitude:  49.5 Degrees North
Longitude:  119.6 Degrees West
Number of Witnesses: Three
Number of Witnesses Interviewed: Three
Weather: Clear Skies - Visibility 15 Miles

Description (In Witness's Own Words):
Location of sighting: Riverside Drive, Penticton (about 200m past parking lot from Local Landing)

Weather: Clear night with full moon, no clouds

Part of sky located: Came from South Western area of sky approximately 45+ degrees up the sky UFO Movement: Moved at speed approximately half a cm to a cm a second compared to my eyes. Moved towards north and slightly east in a very jagged pattern, not seeming to move in a very direct path. Then it started moving away from us, south, getting slightly dimmer. It traveled a fair distance along the sky during the time I was looking at it.

UFO appearance: Bright orange light, lightly pulsing. Brighter than mars or any other star in the sky, basically as bright as the moon. Distance appeared to be a long ways outside of Earth's atmosphere, just like a really bright star.

Area of sighting: Clear view of sky with trees making my western horizon.
 
How it occurred: I was biking up Riverside Drive with my two friends when we seen a bright orange object in the sky. We stopped to look at it and noticed it was moving in an irregular pattern. The object was slightly pulsing while moving across the sky. About 3 minutes after looking at it I phoned my dad on a cell phone at 9:22 pm. At the same time the object started to get dimmer at its max brightness like it was moving away. My dad wasn't able to see it either due to not knowing exactly where it was, and the smoke mixed with the lights of the city he claimed disrupted his vision. After 3 minutes of the phone with him the object started pulsing dramatically from really bright to really dim. After around three of these pulses, while it was bright, it disappeared in a split second. My mind seen it as going directly away from us fast enough not to see any light anymore. Although I think that to be a trick of my mind, I couldn't figure out how such a bright light could disappear so quickly. I noticed it disappeared in line with the Moon and mars approximately 2.5 times further than the planet from the moon. There's no way the object was any aircraft, comet, satellite, or rocket due to pattern of flight and brightness. Please contact me and keep me updated about this. You are the first person I've sent this info. to, and I'd like to know if I should send it out anywhere else. I'll be going back to the place where I was on the next clear night to draw the pattern of flight roughly to my memory and hopefully get slightly better approximations of where it was and where it moved to. If you have any other questions, please ask. Thank you.)

Investigator's Notes:  The witness has made a very concise detailed report.  He was aware of weather conditions, astronomical phenomena, and other important facts.  I consider this sighting to be unidentified.  I received another similar sighting in Centralia, Washington on this same night about three hours before this sighting occurred. I don't know if these two sightings are related. You may read about the Centralia, Washington by clicking here.