NUFORC Sighting 53231

Occurred: 2006-10-31 19:10 Local
Reported: 2006-11-03 09:03 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Tualatin, OR, USA

Shape: Fireball

Fireball sighting on Halloween night

Walking home while trick-or-treating a few houses from ours, we were in the street.

I, my son and his friend, saw a spherical object (about the size of a basketball) coming down from the sky over the trees (which are over 100 feet tall). It was twirling and on fire.

After putting the kids in the house with a friend, I went into the golf course to see if I could see any fire in the field behind the neighborhood. There was no fire, but this is wetlands.

Another trick-or-treater saw the ball from a different spot in the neighborhood.

It seemed like it would have hit the ground behind the houses with this direction.

Too high to have been thrown.

Could've been a comet fragment.

Posted 2006-12-07