Might be a reflective balloon. What angle and how big did it look in the binoculars? Sometimes objects like that are below recognition resolution until you use a larger optical device. Jeff At 16:33 -0700 11/17/06, Albert Stiewing wrote: >My neighbor left a phone message stating he and his brother had seen a >bright, naked eye, star like object in the NW around 1245 to 1300 today. The >object remained visible long enough for him to retrieve binoculars and >observe the object. In the binoculars he reported a dark center to the >object. He reported the object as stationary or moving very slowly before >fading out. I see nothing in heaven_above to explain it. I'd guess a >stationary satellite? Observation from Sun City AZ. -- Jeff Hopkins HPO SOFT Counting Photons http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html Hopkins Phoenix Observatory 7812 West Clayton Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A. www.hposoft.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.