NUFORC Sighting 72143

Occurred: 2009-02-19 00:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-09-07 22:02 Pacific
Duration: 4-5 mins
No of observers: 0

Location: Adelaide (South Australia), , Australia

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail

Red flare looking beam

Outside having a smoke when I noticed, what looked like to be a red flare going straight up into the night sky from about a km away.I kept my eyes on it and realised it wasn't going straight up,it was getting closer to above and over me.

It appeared to be flying very fast horizontaly until I lost sight of it towards the Adelaide hills on the horizon.The object came from the south and went to the north leaving a red tail behind it.This was not a normal looking tail which you would expect of a close by comet.

The tail was very neat around the edges,like a laser and was extremely long.As the light appeared over the top of me,I could notice at the front a black dot,and then inside the tail just behind the larger dot,it looked as though there were smaller black dots jumping in and out of one another.It looked extremely hot as you could see a sort of a orangey yellow molten metal inside the red tail.

The tail faded from the end down only and the length of the whole tail seemed to stretch a across the whole sky.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD

Posted 2009-12-12