NUFORC Sighting 81479

Occurred: 2011-05-11 04:00 Local
Reported: 2011-05-22 21:03 Pacific
Duration: 3-5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: North Palm Springs, CA, USA

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

Fireball traveling from Palm Springs, Ca. towards Joshua Tree National Monument at 4AM on May 11, 2011.

While traveling east on Interstate 10, my husband and I observed a fireball cross the freeway from South to North at a high rate of speed. It looked low in the sky.

From our perspective, it was about the size of a beachball (not tiny like a star). It disappeared toward Joshua Tree National Monument. We thought that it could be a meteor. There were other people traveling on the freeway at that time and they would have seen it also.

Posted 2011-05-29

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