Diamond over San Cristobal de las Casas, CHIAPAS · Mexico

The report, as filed

I was walking down Guadalupe Victoria St. Heading west, from the central plaza area. Looking to my left, I glanced at a radio tower decorated with many rows of vertical colored lights for X-mas. Then, a brightly glowing amber object caught my eye. It seemed to be stationary. It was too big and oddly shaped to be a star. It was too slow to be a plane and too close to be a helicopter, because there was no sound. I realized that it appeared stationary, because it was slowly moving the ssme direction I was (west).I stopped walking and realized it was moving in relation to some power cables in front of me. The entire object glowed amber, but bright street lights prevented me from verifying the exact shape. The gendral shape of a diamond or an oval - but from top to bottom, not side to side. After about 2 minutes, it looked similar to a bright star, except for its bright amber glow. By then, it had floared, or drifted closer to the mountains and street lights further down the street blacked out its image. It was at a 15 degree angle in front of me when it became no longer visible. There was no fireworks show tonight as there was 10 days before, nor any exploding bottle rockets ( which locals claim are chur h related). The bottle rockets don't stay aglow. They only explode. The object was a glowing object, not a mass of sparks. It maintained a uniform shape till it headed due west, beyond view.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179573). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.