NUFORC Sighting 111256

Occurred: 2014-07-04 22:30 Local
Reported: 2014-07-07 08:32 Pacific
Duration: 25-30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Livonia, MI, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

Red-Orange stationary light accompanied by moving white light.

At approximately 10:30 pm on Friday, July 4th, 2014, I stepped outside to watch my neighbor’s fireworks when I noticed a distinct orangy-red “star” in the east sky. The object appeared to be 2-3 times larger than a star or planet, with no discernable shape, and stayed stationary during the 25-30 seconds that I observed it.

As I focused on the red object, I noticed a smaller, white object positioned at three o’clock to the red, presumably a star. The white object appeared constant and did not flicker as a star would.

The white object than moved to a twelve o’clock position to the red, as if the red object was the pivot point.

Once the white object stopped at twelve o’clock, it stayed visible for about 2-3 seconds and then abruptly vanished.

The red star stayed visible for five seconds and then appeared to fade in a way that I would describe as waves rippling on water.

I stood for 2-3 minutes hoping it would reappear but no luck. Due to the number of large, ma! ture trees in my neighborhood I couldn’t tell if there were more objects or if the object(s) reappeared in a different part of the sky.

My location is in northwest Livonia near Seven Mile Road & Newburg. There were quite a few local fireworks and maybe the objects I saw were somehow related to the Fourth of July festivities.

I wasn’t even going to mention this until I saw similar reports on the same night in southeastern Michigan.

Posted 2014-07-11

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