NUFORC Sighting 92464

Occurred: 2012-08-11 23:55 Local
Reported: 2012-09-03 17:48 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Jose, CA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

Green fireball in southern night sky

I was standing on a 7th floor balcony of the hospital I work at looking in a southwesterly direction. I saw a green fireball approximately the color and size of a traffic signal light suddenly flash and disappear. I didn't see a tail or hear any noise as the object appeared to be at least a few miles away over southbound Hwy 101 toward Morgan Hill. I knew that night was the peak night for the Perseid meteor shower, but those were supposed to be in the northwest sky, and I saw several of those early the next morning and they didn't look like that. A bottle rocket? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Posted 2012-09-24

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