I asked them what they thought the object was. I remember there being at least three people in that vehicle, a convertible. There was a noticeable but slow drift and change in the trail during this time.During that time, I took advantage of other witnesses in the car next to me. The object and the trail seemed to stay pretty much in the same position for the next 15 minutes of so. My estimate is maybe three football fields in length although it is very difficult to estimate since there weren't any nearby objects to compare it to. Now I'm starting to realize how distant in height and large this object is. The observance of the trail (white/gray colored) lead me to the second observation of the object, neither the trail or the object were moving much if at all. I first thought that it was some kind of experimental weather balloon but I noticed two other factors that didn't fit that profile.The first was a cloud looking trail, long and snake like but detached from the object as if the object had stopped or stalled where it now was. above the horizon) I can best describe as blimp shaped but somewhat narrower, pointed ends, silver in color but I don't recall it as being reflective, NO protrusions such as the cabin or fins that a blimp would have. Lemmon/Catalina range as you face it from north/west Tucson and about 30 deg. Above and to the left of the screen I noticed an object (I would place it as North, North - West, to the left of the Mt. It was still light out and I was biding time waiting for it to be dark enough for the movies to begin. Just some background on my 'observing' experience.My sighting was not during these exercises but during an outing to a drive-in theater. My groups function, as ground based telescope observers, was to precisely time star occultation's, for the most part as they disappeared and reappeared behind the moon. This was in the early days of satellite before many precise measurements could be made from orbit. As an amateur astronomer, I did volunteer work for the US Naval Observatory back in the late 60's. Large blimp like object 1960'sI am currently in my middle 50's and not a believer that we are being visited by beings from elsewhere.
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