SIGHTING: SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"Nov 22 2017 0600hrs approx. dawn sky with sin just below horizon stars washed out. had been stargazing earlier. happened to look up and saw what i thought was jet contrail at high alt say above 15000 ft. moving nw to sw about 320 to 140 deg or 10 to 4 o'clock if north was 12 and south was 6. didn't really pay much attention to it at that time. a few min later my fiancé came outside and i hey can you see that jet and as i pointed it out to her i'm looking a bit closer at it and notice the contrail is not fading out and it looks more like a rocket flame. i thought it was being lit by the sun but as the sun cleared the horizon the light from the object did not change. call it a flaming arrowhead with a rounded point. now i'm thinking something's not right so i grab my 90mm telescope. object is pretty far off in the distance and i looked for something to be at the tip of the flame but there's nothing there. i'm also getting some distortion from the warming air.I. decide its not a rocket flame while outline is vague it really isn't changing shape and while it's moving in a straight line its dog tracking a little and one edge is slightly longer than the other. its centerline was not quite in line with its direction. also it never really went over the horizon it just kept going straight like when i've watched the iss fly by. i never had any unusual feelings or saw any strange phenomenon. one thing though there are several flight paths for aircraft around my house but during this event there was not a single aircraft anywhere in the sky. none."