NUFORC Sighting 60962

Occurred: 2007-11-27 10:00 Local
Reported: 2008-01-18 06:35 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: Chippewa Falls, WI, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Huge ball with tail, coming down at north angle but moving east at a fast pace.

Tuesday, November 27 around 10 am, my adult daughter and I were driving just outside of Chippewa Falls, WI. To the (what seemed to be) east we observed by eye a very large object high in the sky.

We observed an impressively huge ball of smoke with bits of color followed with a long tail. The object appeared to be slowly coming down from the atmosphere at an angle facing north yet moving away from us, eastward at a fast enough pace that we lost sight of it within minutes, because of its eastward movement, not because it was coming toward the earth.

This was large enough that we pulled over along the Freeway to watch it.

At the same time, we were watching this we saw a smaller, cigar shaped object come up from what appeared to be the ground, somewhere. It directed toward the larger object and appeared to pass (or miss) the larger mass by crossing the tail. This object continued up and arced to the northeast until it was out of sight. This one had a smoke tail that seemed to split then join. This may be unrelated to the first object.

We would have heard if it was a comet or asteroid. I e-mailed the TV station to find if there was a crash of some kind. I am surprised that more people do not look up!

Posted 2008-01-21