NUFORC Sighting 04580

Occurred: 1998-10-02 09:20 Local
Reported: 1998-10-12 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Sedona, AZ, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

On vacation in Sedona, I was sitting waiting for a tour trolley to start about 9:20 in the morning when I looked up between two buttes to the northeast and saw an object like a white fireball, with a short tail, hovering between them. It looked like a comet, only it was stationary for a long time. I watched for about 5 minutes and took a couple of pictures. Then it started moving, accelerated and moved from the upper right to the lower left and disappeared behind the "saddle" of the buttes. A couple of minutes later I saw a jet. It had a much longer tail. I am a supervisor with a state agency, have a college degree , and consider myself to be a stable person.

Posted 1998-11-01

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