It was approximately 8:00 PM. I walked outside and looked up at the stars. To the east of our house, I saw what looked like a very large, bright star. At first I thought it was a planet, but then realized it was much larger and brighter than anything I had seen before. I kept staring at it wondering what it was, and I noticed that there seemed to be different colored lights blinking in it also.

There was green, red, and blue that I could see. It clearly wasn't a plane, because after approximately 10 minutes it had not really moved. I then called my daughter and mom out to see what they thought of it. My mom was the first to notice that it seemed to be moving, although because of the distance it was very slight.

As we watched it, we noticed that it would move slightly in all direction, stopping after each move. But by my view, it never appeared to move more than a couple of inches in the sky, and stayed in one specific area.

I told my daughter to go get the camera because it had 48x zoom, and I have used it in the past to get pictures of birds that were too far away to tell what they were with the naked eye. Once I found the object in the camera lens on max zoom, I realized that it looked more like a ball, or oval shape, and was hovering, then moving very quickly back and forth as if it were plotting points on a map.

I took several pictures with the camera on "action" mode. We then stopped to view the pictures on the screen, and the camera had captured an object moving that left streaks of multi-colored light behind it. We all took turns looking at it through the camera, and taking pictures. There were approximately 70 pictures made of the object.

Eventually we noticed a plane flying toward it coming from the opposite direction. This UFO was in the east upper horizon of the sky, but below all the stars. Once the plane was almost overhead us, but slightly to the west. The UFO flew up and back, hesitated for a few seconds, and then disappeared.

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