blazing sphere across the southern sky from 1982
I was 16 or 17 years old the time of this event. It was a clear October night around 22:10 and I was walking home from a friends house alone. Where I lived there were not street lights so it was pretty dark. The majority of the walk was towards the east. When I got to a point that I had to turn South, I noticed an abnormal amount of barking dogs. MUCH more than normal. I could tell the difference in the dogs barking at me and something else. There were dogs 3 streets over in all directions going crazy. More like, howling and whining than anything else. Some were barking at me I could tell but it sounded like dogs from 1/2 a mile away were going nuts. There were no cars driving around either. As I turned to the South, a large fireball caught my eye in the Southern Sky. It was moving West to East about 60 degrees off the horizon at a relatively slow pace. It looked like a small sun with a fat tail behind it that went to a point very quickly. As I was staring at it, 8 smaller spheres relative in size to the original ball split off from the larger ball and just sort of drifted behind it. The smaller spheres sort of exploded off the large sphere in all directions except in the front of it. I watched this whole thing as I walked slowly home. The spheres never changed speed but it was a constant quick pace across the southern sky. I was able to view this event until the speres disapeared over the eastern horizon. As soon as I couldn't see it anymore, the barking stopped. I could hear my two dogs as well since I was close to home. I told my friends about it and of course I was crazy, making things up. One of my sisters friends said her boyfriend at the time was driving south on another road about 5 miles away and pulled over along with 6 other cars to observe the same thing I was seeing. I was told it was a meteorite but to this day it was something that is unexplained or unidentified.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. We would like to invite the other witnesses to submit reports, as well. PD))
I was 16 or 17 years old the time of this event. It was a clear October night around 22:10 and I was walking home from a friends house alone. Where I lived there were not street lights so it was pretty dark. The majority of the walk was towards the east. When I got to a point that I had to turn South, I noticed an abnormal amount of barking dogs. MUCH more than normal. I could tell the difference in the dogs barking at me and something else. There were dogs 3 streets over in all directions going crazy. More like, howling and whining than anything else. Some were barking at me I could tell but it sounded like dogs from 1/2 a mile away were going nuts. There were no cars driving around either. As I turned to the South, a large fireball caught my eye in the Southern Sky. It was moving West to East about 60 degrees off the horizon at a relatively slow pace. It looked like a small sun with a fat tail behind it that went to a point very quickly. As I was staring at it, 8 smaller spheres relative in size to the original ball split off from the larger ball and just sort of drifted behind it. The smaller spheres sort of exploded off the large sphere in all directions except in the front of it. I watched this whole thing as I walked slowly home. The spheres never changed speed but it was a constant quick pace across the southern sky. I was able to view this event until the speres disapeared over the eastern horizon. As soon as I couldn't see it anymore, the barking stopped. I could hear my two dogs as well since I was close to home. I told my friends about it and of course I was crazy, making things up. One of my sisters friends said her boyfriend at the time was driving south on another road about 5 miles away and pulled over along with 6 other cars to observe the same thing I was seeing. I was told it was a meteorite but to this day it was something that is unexplained or unidentified.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. We would like to invite the other witnesses to submit reports, as well. PD))
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Swartz Creek
USA
3 to 4 minutes
3 to 4 minutes
42.95
-83.82
fireball
MI
Occurred : 10/1/1982 22:10 (Entered as : 10/01/82 22:10) Reported: 1/13/2003 12:13:59 PM 12:13 Posted: 3/21/2003 Location: Swartz Creek, MI Shape: Fireball Duration: 3 to 4 minutes Characteristics: The object emitted other objects
blazing sphere across the southern sky from 1982