2010-09-20 - Oxnard, CA - Fireball

A moving fire ball over oxnard, ca morphing into a comet shape with tail.

I was heading west bound on Doris Rd pulling up to Ventura Rd. when I noticed what looked like a redish orangy light heading towards me in a slight southerly direction. I keep my eye on it driving by the open strawberry fields with not many cars on the road. It looked like a burning fireball in the sky as it got closer to me in my direction.It was coming it at around 500 to 1500 feet ruffly 3-10 miles out closing fairly quickly. It looked like a bomb fire maybe the size of "America eagle" commuter plane. It floated slightly up and to the left then began to change shape and less concentrated. It then stretched out a very long hayleys comet like tail like a tapered cylindrical tube. The new dimensions of the craft were ruffly 5x to 7X its longer then its brightest point as a flaming sphere. I never took my eyes off of it as i was going straight down a almost empty 2 line rural road. It appeared to have a light redish yellow haze or residue. The end of the tai! l hung about 15 to 20 degrees below the natural horizon it then appeared to lose its tail and consolidate it's self into a perfect sphere still retaining its shape. It began to get smaller and smaller until it was directly over head and about the size of an average star. It still had a gray yellowish mist that slowly faded away. I then reached the beach area going down 5th street and could nolonger see because of the street lights. a min later i was home looking in the sky for it reappear but it never did.