NUFORC Sighting 46501

Occurred: 2005-09-18 23:50 Local
Reported: 2005-09-25 22:22 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Plantation, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

While driving in my jeep with my top down an object in the sky caught me eye so I pulled over to watch it. It looked like an extremely bright shooting star, but it was traveling up at about a 10 degree angle to the horizon and much slower than a meteorite. after about 30 seconds of travel, the tail disappeared. The red round light traveled for about 4 minutes at a very slow speed. I got my camera phone ready to take a pic and the tail started to form again. This time the object took off at an extremely fast speed up and toward the east. I waited for a while to see if there were any more signs of the object but saw nothing else.

Posted 2005-10-11