Occurred: 2012-08-01 22:10 Local
Reported: 2012-08-01 20:06 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Columbus, OH, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Left a trail

Orange object with tail moving across night sky from north to south

I live in Columbus, Ohio. At 10:10 p.m. tonight (August 1, 2012) I was taking out the trash container to the street. It was dark.

I noticed an orange object up in the sky, moving quickly from north to south at a steady pace. It was not a planet, like Venus or Mars; it was much bigger than that, and was not a shooting star.

The object looked round, but it "shimmered," like maybe it was spinning around.

It also had a distinct orange tail that came to a point, which made it look a bit like a rocket.

There was no debris trail after it, as a comet or a shooting star might have.

Anyway, it moved across the sky in about 10 seconds, and disappeared over the horizon.

Maybe it was some space junk burning up in the atmosphere?

Posted 2012-08-05

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