Unexplained Celestial Observations – Page 4 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Bright Objects on the Morning Western Sky Near Malad Idaho

All of the naked-eye visible planets are rising in the east in the morning this time of year, so…

I suspect what you were seeing is a bright planet, such as Saturn, Venus, or Jupiter, whose brightness was…

I suspect that what you were seeing was the bright planet Venus. The “ringing” structure you are seeing in…

There are several bright stars in the SE evening sky this time of year that could have been the…

Perhaps you are seeing the planet Venus, which would be in the W/SW sky setting right around 8PM in…

This is a pretty rich part of the sky since one is looking pretty much right toward the center…

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