2010-05-22 - Fairless Hills, PA - Fireball

Flame flying across sky

In an extremely busy business area, I made a left off of Business Rt. 1 to get to A1 Steakhouse. I noticed a bright orange light in the sky moving from my left across the road I was on. It was very low and at first I thought it was a helicopter circling towards the hospital. But there was no blinking lights. Just a bright orange glow. There was absolutely no sound from the object. Instead of making a left to where I wanted to go, I continued straight towards the light. As I got closer I couldn't believe that it was like a flame with a glow around it, floating across the sky. Flickering and moving straight across the sky at a steady speed. I quickly made a right into a parking lot so I could stop and watch it. There was another car there with a guy standing with one leg still in his car, also watching it. It was extremely windy that night, but the flame continued at a steady pace. It seemed to stop at one point and hover. Then it began to move at a steep angl! e and disappeared into the clouds. I sat there for several minutes stunned, trying to figure out what I had just seen.