Very bright solid white round light

5/11/24 3:41 am Iowa City, IA

Looking at the northern sky, object moves from west to east. If 90 degrees is straight up this was in 50s I bet.

iPhone 11 in night mode so each shot is about 2-3 seconds long and makes the ball look stretched like a tic tac but was actually a solid very very bright white round object. Silent. Who knows how high up but if it was way up there then that’s even more cool how it was so bright still. It was twenty times more bright than any other known object I saw and the quality of the light was odd. Not pulsing or anything just solid.

I was watching the sky for 1.5 hours and saw a few blinking planes (I could hear), brief shooting stars with trails and very faint satellites that were hard to tack because they were so dim. This was definitely not any of these but did move in a straight path like a plane or satellite. I was hoping it would move in a cool way but it kept a nice straight trajectory.

I’ve never seen a ufo so this was extra fun with the northern lights so beautiful!