NUFORC Sighting 128818

Occurred: 2016-07-27 21:40 Local
Reported: 2016-07-27 22:11 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: San Jose, CA, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Left a trail, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Long observation of a spectacular orange fireball with massively long trail, medium speed, split apart.

Bright orange fireball with very, very long orange/yellow fire trail. Low altitude, descending slowly from South to North direction. Too fast for a small plane. Too slow for a meteorite. Not big enough for an airliner. Split into 2 pieces before it disappeared in the trees/horizon, and then heard a soft distance. Boom ... Boom (1 sec apart).

NUFORC Note:

Space debris. PD

Posted 2016-08-02