1998-08-28 - San Diego, CA - Sphere

From the south a somewhat dim yellow/green/orange sphere floated up and to the north from behind some trees. It then almost stopped and began falling as if like a leaf falls, disappearing behind tress and houses in the east. Then from the area where I last saw it (after about 2 minutes elapsed) a streak of light appeared across the sky and disappeared in the western horizon. Then 2 minutes later a streak appeared from the northern horizon to the southern horizon, like the one before but opposite direction. The streaks were like something that moved across the entire visible sky at outrageous speed.

I was in my back yard looking at jupiter at 2:15 am on 08/28/98. I was facing the east when something caght my eye. That something was floating out from behind some trees to the south and was approximately 60-70 degrees from the eastern horizon when it started drifting and falling as if like a leaf falls, until it disappeared behind some haouse and trees. This object was completely round and not as bright as jupiter although it was 5-6 times the size of jupiter and approximately 1.5 miles away. It was a yelowish green orange color. After 2 minutes had elapsed something went very fast from the eastern horizon to the western horizon in a split second. Then 2 minutes later something streaked very fast from the northern horizon to the southern horizon. These streaks were the same spherical object that I had seen before, although I can not say for sure because it was moving too fast to decipher. I have seen meteors, bolides, satelites, and Iridium flares of all kinds . I had never seen anything like this before.