NUFORC Sighting 49749

Occurred: 2003-09-24 18:45 Local
Reported: 2006-03-20 22:40 Pacific
Duration: 4 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pensacola, FL, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Green Fireball, no lasting contrail, strange trajectory.

Went to pic up a video at the rental store, it was approaching sunset and I was walking back out to my car from the store. In my peripheral vision to my left (north-northeast)there was a millisecond of a brief, searing glare as if someone had aimed a laser pointer at me, I then turned my head and saw an extremely fast green, almost sea green-colored fireball (possibly a large meteor). Being an avid offshore fisherman I have seen many large fireballs when out in the gulf at night. The things that struck me as odd besides seeing this in relative daylight, was the trajectory of the object and the fact that there was no contrail remnant. Instead of an arching trajectory from horizon to horizon, this object was coming down at a very high 'angle of attack' and did not fade as it approached my observable horizon which was approx. 1/2 mile away. I was only aware of one other person (also in the parking lot) that observed this object.

Posted 2006-05-15