NUFORC Sighting 54215

Occurred: 2006-12-16 07:10 Local
Reported: 2006-12-30 20:13 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 9

Location: Canton, OH, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Odd hazey sphere apeared over the Akron/Canton area during sunrise.

My friends and I we're standing outside our high school waiting for a school bus. I saw a white smokey trail come out of the southern horizon quite a distance away from us. I would have to guess on the order of several miles or more. At first I thought it was some type of rocket lifting off, the zig zagging of the trail indicated that. The trail abruptly cut off after a few minutes of rising. Then a minute or so later a second trail appeared going up in the same way about a thumb width away from the first trail. The second one rose much higher. I measured it with my hand on its side, it went up a little more than the width of my hand then vanished. A few seconds passed, and another trail appeared above the trail that had just cut off. I assumed it was the same object, but I could see a glowing bright light at the tip unlike in the previous trails. The sun was up above the horizon and to my left. The bright light flew to the west for a few seconds and then stopped and stood still. A large haze started to come from the object, spreading out to make a sphere of haze that was by my guess a mile wide. This haze stood in the air for at least five minutes after the light had vanished. The trails had not dispersed when I had gotten on the bus and stopped looking. I looked at a clock, it had been twenty minutes.

There were about six of us there who all saw it. Two adults and four teenagers including myself. Later when we got to a speech tournament, my coach had talked to a coach from Akron (a full 30 miles away from Canton) whose students had also described to her an identical event.




NUFORC Note:

Missile launch out of Wallops Island, VA. PD


Posted 2007-02-01

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