NUFORC Sighting 05405

Occurred: 1999-01-15 23:57 Local
Reported: 1999-01-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Stevenage, Herts (UK/England), , United Kingdom

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

Driving home past railway station . Saw ball of light rise up, travel horizontally for approx 100 yrds then unsteadily zig zag until finally rise directly up with fire 'trailing' off until dissappeared.

Myself and my husband were coming home from a party (i had not been drinking!) as we passed parallel to the station i noticed a ball of light rising up. I thought this might be a flare or something similar, then as it moved horizontally, almost in line with the fly over connecting the station to the main side of town , i said to my husband it must be a bike or some one walking across the bridge.Islowed right down and then it became apparent that the light was above the bridge and much higher than it had first appeared. the light (about the size of a football in relation to us on the ground) then started zig zagging jerkily in a north easterly direction for a further 600 yrds (approx) then rose more quickly and dissappeared . At this point fire 'dropped' away from the base of the ball not large amounts, it was just trailing off for a second before it dissappeared.

Posted 1999-02-16