NUFORC Sighting 47933

Occurred: 2005-11-22 19:15 Local
Reported: 2005-11-29 11:29 Pacific
Duration: 15 mins
No of observers: 9

Location: Benicia, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball

Looked like a plane on fire, sparks falling for about 10mins than just fell in the ocean.

My husband was on the patio looking east at the bay and yelled for me to get the phone.It looked like a plane was on fire and headed straight toward the bay, it was dropping sparks and looked like it was ungulfed in flames. I called 911 to report it and the told me that there was no reports of a plane on fire and not to call again. It went west for about 10 mins. dropping sparks and getting lower the whole time and then went dark and looked like it fell in the ocean. After it went down we went to the bay and several fishermen saw the same thing but said that it made no noise and just fell straight in the ocean. They thought it was odd that there was no resuce atempt happening, we all thought it was a passanger plane on fire and where scared for the people both on the plane and on the ground. Nothing was on the news and no cops every came to check it out. After watching at the shore for almost three hours nothing else happened and nobody ever responded to our call or to the fishermans calls. About 9 of us just sat there wandering what had just happened.

Posted 2005-12-16