Form
97-AR
Date: Saturday, 18 March 2006
Animal Reaction Feature:
At about 6 PM on a clear night, the witness went out to walk the dog. A large fireball with a trail flew silently overhead going from SE to ENE. The dog “did not act strange during this event.”
The Sighting:
First thinking a jet plane was going down, the witness listened for a crash. He thought the fireball was at 4000 feet and its speed was similar to that of a plane on a landing approach. The time from overhead to disappearance over the tree horizon was estimated to be 45 seconds.
[This spectacular, slow-moving fireball was seen from the Midwest to the East Coast—jw.]
Source:
NUFORC has 200 or more reports of this fireball.
This report is at http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/010/S10913.html
See http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast17nov99_1.htm for information on this fireball.