NUFORC Sighting 13674

Occurred: 1996-09-15 04:00 Local
Reported: 2000-08-05 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 6sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Salem, OR, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Left a trail

While driving home on State street just East of Lancaster (we were traveling East) a bright lime/jade green "comet" appeared infront of us: distantence unknown. It fell for aprox: 6 sec and then diseapered. It was low in the sky; Started at about 40 degrees above horizon and dissappeared at about 5 or 10 degrees above horizon. The odd thing was that other than it was bright green and looked like a "falling star" It decended very slowly.

NUFORC Note:

We do not know what the military time designation of "29:00" means, but we presume it is "0400" hours, I.e. 4:00 o'clock in the morning. PD

Posted 2000-08-05