Light over Malo, WA

The report, as filed

My mother and I were out enjoying the night on the deck. Spotted a few meteors, played with Google sky map nothing particularly out of the ordinary happening. I was following a line of dense stars, I assume is the milky way, when a saw the light. It was just a dot same size and color as a star but slightly less bright. It emitted a steady glow with no flashing or indications that it was manmade aircraft. The "star" was drifting to the south east following a straight path faster than a plane. Speed estimate around cruising fighter jet speed. The craft continued this path for about 5 mins until it began to flicker. I picked the craft back up not far from where it faded it became slightly brighter after this and shot like a laser beam for just a second to the west and was gone.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129797). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.