I live on a 9 acre ranch in rural riverside county, california. the ranch sits in a canyon approximately 1.5-2 miles across. from my property, i only have light noise that comes from the nw from the town of redlands 10 miles away.
the object i spotted was due east with little to no visible light noise from the canyon.
what caught my eye was the object was twinkling extremely bright randomly changing colors through most of the color spectrum. it also seemed to be much closer than other stars.
at that point i grabbed my camera (nikon d5200 w/nikkor 55-300mm lens mounted on tripod) and set it up in my driveway pointed due east approximately 10 degrees above the horizon and video recorded about 5 minutes worth of footage until my battery died. during the recording, the object seemed to move with earths orbit, but about half way through the video i noticed it made a slight direction change to the south just prior to moving out of the field of view of my camera (i did not adjust the tripod once i started recording).
with limited time, i wasn't able to view the video for a few days. once i did see the video, i was amazed with what i captured. this object seemed to be within the earths atmosphere after view a freeze frame. what also made me believe this was within the atmosphere is that no other stars were picked up with my camera which was set to record the flashing orb i spotted.
