UFO Photographs: Signs of an Alien Invasion

If the object were near our planet at all (as an invading armada or a military craft would be) it would not appear to be coincident with Sirius for everyone. Indeed, if you drove 200 miles away, the object would be quite far from Sirius, visually, if it were within a few hundred miles of the ground.

Also, the streaks of the stars are caused, of course, by the earth's rotation. For an object's trail to appear that curved it would need to be moving quite a bit (thousands of miles per second), perhaps orbiting Sirius itself.

It's curious that you observed the same phenomenon multiple times from opposite sides of the planet (and so, presumably months apart). Have you looked for it again since?

Don't use PhotoShop default contrast enhance, it's wiping out gobs of information. Preview and use the slider bar on Image\Adjustments\"Brightness/contrast" The images are mostly black, auto adjust can't handle it and you're not interested in anything but Sirius and the unidentified object (UO.) It will also allow you to maintain a constant level of enhancement for reasonable comparisons.

You were right that the image looked to be blinking by the image but I would think you would have seen that. By the image it would look to be making small, very fast motions then sitting still. Very odd.

I'm with you on the distance too. Unless there's some weird, gravity shifting to the light path it looks to be 100+ miles out.

Disagree on using a star to hide approach, ala Red Baron. Given the motion of Earth around sun it just wouldn't work long. Same problem, smaller scale, with observer moving about a planet, continent, city, etc.

Interesting - Buzz Aldrin talks about a UFO encounter during his space missions here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgfaLFTl4U.

Have you considered using starry nights to recreate the time and location of your siting? This could rule out any satellites or other phenomena.