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first saw it as a white light with a brilliant orange tail, tail disappeared white light continued across sky east and then seemed to burn up.
I saw this white light with a brilliant orange tail. I was in my truck just passing thru Running Springs Ca., which is at 5000ft level, It appeared to be coming from the west over Los Angeles and traveling east. I pulled off the road and watched, thinking this could possibly an aircraft going down, then the orange tail disappeared and all I could see was a white light that was still traveling east and did not appear to be loosing altitude. Then it looked like the shots you see in the movies, of a craft or asteroid entering the atmosphere, there was a shield of light, fire or something in the front of this object and then it disappeared like it had burned up on entry. I would say the tail lasted over 2 minutes and the entire event close to 5-7 minutes. I immediately told the folks at work what I had seen, hoping someone had heard something on the radio,but no-one had. I realize this was fairly early in the AM but did you guys hear anything?
first saw it as a white light with a brilliant orange tail, tail disappeared white light continued across sky east and then seemed to burn up.
I saw this white light with a brilliant orange tail. I was in my truck just passing thru Running Springs Ca., which is at 5000ft level, It appeared to be coming from the west over Los Angeles and traveling east. I pulled off the road and watched, thinking this could possibly an aircraft going down, then the orange tail disappeared and all I could see was a white light that was still traveling east and did not appear to be loosing altitude. Then it looked like the shots you see in the movies, of a craft or asteroid entering the atmosphere, there was a shield of light, fire or something in the front of this object and then it disappeared like it had burned up on entry. I would say the tail lasted over 2 minutes and the entire event close to 5-7 minutes. I immediately told the folks at work what I had seen, hoping someone had heard something on the radio,but no-one had. I realize this was fairly early in the AM but did you guys hear anything?
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Los Angeles
USA
5-7min
5-7min
34.04
-118.30
fireball
CA
Occurred : 2/23/1999 02:27 (Entered as : 2/23/99 2:27am) Reported: 2/26/1999 05:53 Posted: 4/2/1999 Location: Los Angeles, CA Shape: Fireball Duration: 5-7min
first saw it as a white light with a brilliant orange tail, tail disappeared white light continued across sky east and then seemed to b