looking to my west towards a setting sun, I saw a large fireball leaving a wide trail of white smoke. It was moving slowly, easy to see
Looking west as the sun was setting and using 8x binoculars that I happened to have in my car, I saw what looked like a fireball, leaving around and behind it a massive trail of white smoke. The white trail of smoke was similar to that from a jet plane but much wider. I got a very good look at it for about 20 minutes till it disappeared over the horizon. I have know idea how far away it was, but my first thought was how large it was and how long I was able to watch it slowly travel out of sight. I was very surprised I did not read or see anything on the news, particularly my local news outlets. Many others had to have seen this.
((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether it might have been a contrail. PD))
Looking west as the sun was setting and using 8x binoculars that I happened to have in my car, I saw what looked like a fireball, leaving around and behind it a massive trail of white smoke. The white trail of smoke was similar to that from a jet plane but much wider. I got a very good look at it for about 20 minutes till it disappeared over the horizon. I have know idea how far away it was, but my first thought was how large it was and how long I was able to watch it slowly travel out of sight. I was very surprised I did not read or see anything on the news, particularly my local news outlets. Many others had to have seen this.
((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether it might have been a contrail. PD))
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Doylestown
USA
1 hour
1 hour
40.32
-75.13
fireball
PA
Occurred : 12/27/2003 16:30 (Entered as : 12/27/2003 16:30) Reported: 12/28/2003 5:05:49 PM 17:05 Posted: 1/17/2004 Location: Doylestown, PA Shape: Fireball Duration: 1 hour Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object left a trail, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
looking to my west towards a setting sun, I saw a large fireball leaving a wide trail of white smoke. It was moving slowly, easy to see