NUFORC Sighting 05768

Occurred: 1999-02-24 05:23 Local
Reported: 1999-03-02 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Fox Point, WI, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Landed

A large green fireball traveled from west to east, and decended into lake Michigan

At 5:23am I observed a green fireball, similar to a flare, with a tail approx 1/2 mile long, heading east, at approx. 25,000 ft.. The object flew over lake Michigan which usually has a cumulus cloud layer over it in the winter, curved downward, dissapeared into the clouds, came out the bottom, headed downward towards the lake, when I lost it behind the tree line. I assume that it splashed into the lake.

Posted 1999-04-02