A flame floating through the sky moved slowly and closely above us before departing into space as a small red light.
A flame that was moving from west to east was coming toward our position, directly overhead. It was moving slowly, and seemed to be approaching us. At one point, we asked each other if it was falling from directly above us, down toward us.
It was very large (looked like the fire that comes out of a hot air balloon but bigger) and slowly floated above us, in the same west-east direction. It looked like it could have been only 100 meters above ground at the closest point.
It then gradually moved away from us, getting smaller and smaller, as if it was moving further from the Earth as it moved eastward. This continued until it turned into a small red light and disappeared. The red light at the very end looked like a small red star.
By the end we were not looking as easterly as we were looking up at the sky. From our vantage point it seemed to move very slowly while it approached us (like a hot air balloon) and very quickly as it moved away from us (like a jet or rocket). Nothing we could imagine could seem to be so close, and in just a matter of seconds be so far away.
The entire episode lasted 3-4 minutes, most of which was time it spent approaching and floating above us, always moving in the west-east direction.
A flame that was moving from west to east was coming toward our position, directly overhead. It was moving slowly, and seemed to be approaching us. At one point, we asked each other if it was falling from directly above us, down toward us.
It was very large (looked like the fire that comes out of a hot air balloon but bigger) and slowly floated above us, in the same west-east direction. It looked like it could have been only 100 meters above ground at the closest point.
It then gradually moved away from us, getting smaller and smaller, as if it was moving further from the Earth as it moved eastward. This continued until it turned into a small red light and disappeared. The red light at the very end looked like a small red star.
By the end we were not looking as easterly as we were looking up at the sky. From our vantage point it seemed to move very slowly while it approached us (like a hot air balloon) and very quickly as it moved away from us (like a jet or rocket). Nothing we could imagine could seem to be so close, and in just a matter of seconds be so far away.
The entire episode lasted 3-4 minutes, most of which was time it spent approaching and floating above us, always moving in the west-east direction.
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San Diego
USA
3-4 minutes
3-4 minutes
32.84
-117.16
fireball
CA
Occurred : 4/23/2006 20:30 (Entered as : 04/23/06 20:30) Reported: 4/23/2006 11:09:57 PM 23:09 Posted: 5/15/2006 Location: San Diego, CA Shape: Fireball Duration: 3-4 minutes Characteristics: There were lights on the object
A flame floating through the sky moved slowly and closely above us before departing into space as a small red light.