SIGHTING: BIG BEAR LAKE, CALIFORNIA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I was out camping in the mountains near big bear with my family and friends. i brought some camera equipment to shoot the night sky and hopefully get some good milkyway shots. i had a an extremely powerful flashlight that i was pointing at the sky and using my hand to cover the light and make random flashes into the sky. shortly after i began taking long exposure shots of the night sky. ranging from 30 secs to 1 minute or a little more. i didnt notice anything unusual until i looked at the image later. there appears to be a star or some kind of light coming out of the brightest star in the sky and leaving a very distinct streak that changes directions twice. at first i thought maybe i moved the camera but if i did move the camera during the exposure there would be more streaks, or atleast more movement int he image, but there is not. there is only this one streak. i wish i would have kept the shutter open longer to see how the streak would have evolved. fro some reason when i look at it, at least from what is visible it reminds me the way a sound frequency looks when it begins. at least that is what imagined when i try to think why an object would make this kind of movement in the night sky. the shape of the streak looks very unusual to me, and leads me to believe that it is not of this planet."