NUFORC Sighting 16200

Occurred: 2001-01-01 03:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-02-06 00:00 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 1

Location: Crescent City, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

This was a bright orange ball that was seen by others above ocean.

I was at work at about 3:00am I went outside to have a cigarette and noticed a bright orange ball in the sky above the harbor which is about 4 blocks away. It was about the size of a dime at arms length. It hovered there for about five seconds then traveled east at a high rate of speed leaving a tracer behind. I don't think this was an emergency flare or plane because of the brightness of it and the speed that it traveled at.

NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD

Posted 2001-02-18