2006-04-20 - Knoxville, TN - Cylinder

Green and orange lit cylinder flashed across the sky while outside at work.

I was at work on a break outside talking with a coworker the sky was clear and there was nothing unusual about it. We were just talking when suddenly out of nowhere this huge cylinder shaped light appeared in the sky it was huge considering how far away it was and it moved across the sky diagonally southwest (FAST) then just as quickly as it appeared it was gone. The front of it was green and then it tapered into orange, there was much more orange than green. It wasn't a green object with an orange tail because the whole thing moved together as one object. There was no noise. The way it appeared it reminded me of shooting a bottle rocket. Only it was huge. And going down not up. And it never exploded like a bottle rocket. We both were silent for a few minutes and then we looked at each other. I asked what that was, she said she didn't know. I asked if she thought it was a plane. She said no. I said maybe fireworks. She said no. Then she said sort of quietly do you think it was a ufo? I said no one would believe us. We quickly put out our cigarettes and went back in.