NUFORC Sighting 05563

Occurred: 1999-02-15 23:10 Local
Reported: 1999-02-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds

Location: Ravenna, OH, USA

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

large green glowing sphere just appeared,zoomed down very fast in a straight line vertically then dissapeared.

I was travelling west on Ohio Turnpike I-80 aprox.11:00pm to 11:20pm driving a cube van to Cleveland,Ohio from Pittsburgh Penn. The sky was clear and then from no where this glowing giant green sphere appeared directly ahead of us and high in the sky and decended faster than anything i have ever seen in flight.it zoomed down vertically in such a perfect straight line and then just dissapeared before the horizon of the tree line it was approx.1 to 2 miles ahead of us .I say us because a co-worker was in a truck ahead of me approx.100 yards in front of me driving an identical truck and saw the event also there was no trail from it of any sort, was larger than a commercial jetliner and traveled so fast....faster than something falling. I am a concert lighting designer and am very educated in lighting and different light sources and color filtration and have never seen or heard of a unit that would put out that much light and have such a vivid color green. i have also worked with lasers....this object was way too big to have came from a laser source.

Posted 1999-04-02