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Tumwater (driving N on I-5) · WA, USA
Large Blue Fireball with a tail flying in a northern direction. This object was not a typical falling star. The object than disappeare
Roseville · CA, USA
small red fireball with long white tail, moving West at a very high speed parallel to the ground
Spokane (I-90 from mile 238 eastbound · over), WA, USA
from south to north very fast went over horizon not sure of color 1/10 size of full moon
Big Rapids · MI, USA
greenish fire ball coming down from sky with long tail on it.
Grand Rapids (North of) · MI, USA
A green fireball with a long "tail" moving rapidly and turning the landscape green
Yuba City · CA, USA
Large blue/silver sphere with green halo travelled across sky approx 20 deg. arc leaving a white trail. Event lasted 1.0 sec.
Kelowna (Canada) · BC, Canada
Bright white, spherical object. Approx size = match head held at arm's length. Direction of travel: an ARC, approx. NE to SW. No tail
Charleston · SC, USA
I work a Chas. AfB and I walked off an airplane and looked across the horizon and saw it moving horizontally. I have seen thousands of
Kimball Twp. (5 miles S.W. of Port Huron) · MI, USA
I was at my residence when I and two other subjects observed a green fireball proceed from the West to the East. The green fireball was
Emory (5 Mi East of) · TX, USA
At 45 Degrees in NNW sky. White ball as big as pencil eraser in hand with halo at first. Bright white like sun fading in intensity unti
Oceanside · CA, USA
Bright, fire-like object streaked from west to east in a level, horizonal attitude at a speed that took approximately 10 seconds to cov
Sophia · NC, USA
A huge blue, orange ball shooshed in front of us
San Angelo · TX, USA
big, glowing, slow , red comet-like fireball with a tail that slowly stretched accross the sky, and took forever to slowly fade away
Shalimar · FL, USA
. A burning orb appeared for the west at about 45 degrees and slowly moved to about 20 degress changing color from a bright red to a ve
Danville · CA, USA
i was looking up with my dad and this bright white fireball came out of the east and headed west and blew up/dissapeared over Mt. Diabl
Grants Pass (Murphy area) · OR, USA
Flying from the South going North East. The green fireball with barely a tail came between two trees on the land behind our home, and
Weed · CA, USA
Very bright blue-green fireball moved downward then went out.
Hudson Valley · NY/Danbury, CT (near Taconic Parkway), CT, USA
Driving east toward Danbury on I-84, near the Taconic parkway, myself and a passenger noticed a bright "glowing" orange sphere in the
Pasadena · CA, USA
I only submit this because of the increased number of sky sightings the past 10 days- what I saw was the largest shooting star [?] that
Puyallup · WA, USA
A bluish/gree fireball (size of a large grape - with arm extended) and a long white tail trailing behind as it arched over the Puyallup
Del Mar · CA, USA
This was like a green colored light, like a star. It was lower than any other aircraft would be. It was decending, in an easterly dir
Castaic · CA, USA
Traveling north on I-5 in Castaic, seen a greenish-white brilliantly lit fireball. Perfectly round in size come out of the sky, at a do
Colorado Springs · CO, USA
Green 'fireball' with a blue tail.
Cedar Crest · NM, USA
Walking our dogs at 10:00 pm 9-22-98 looking south a large ball of light with a tail 3 times larger than the ball that sparked and flic