British Columbia - Canada - 11-08-08

For weeks I pointed out this light in the sky to friends and co-workers... some said it was the ISS, or some other satellite. I didn't think it was, it wasn't like any star or satellite I have ever seen, it just seemed real close to the earth like it was in the atmosphere not in orbit.

Over a few days it seemed to get closer to the earth or to my position so I decided to see if I could get a zoom shot of it, I took 11 pics, 7 of them are out of focus or blurred from shaking, but still have some value.

Four of them are clear showing the object and the moon. I took the pics facing west toward Vancouver from Mission, BC, on an upward angle of about 40-50 degrees. It stayed in the night sky for about three weeks until I looked up one night and it was gone.

To the naked eye it just looked like a very bright, white light with a faint pulse to it. It wasn't until about 6 months later I uploaded the pics from the camera to my computer and had a look at them. [I hadn't looked at them due to my father's death in early December of that year].

I noticed it had a Saturn-like shape to it. It wasn't until I saw some similar pics on youtube that I went back to my pics and compared them to ones on youtube, it looks exactly like the one from Apollo 16.

It was like the "We have a boggy at 10 o'clock" video. I was shocked at the similarities which led me to doing this report, my only goal with this report is to share what I saw and get a answer as to what it was.