NUFORC Sighting 175748

Occurred: 2023-05-07 01:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-05-12 21:06 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: La Mirada, CA, USA
Location details: Facing East

Shape: Fireball

Fireball descends and flickers away into night sky

I left my house to enter the garage and noticed what seemed like a very visible and enlarged Mars. I went inside to call my sister out of her room and went back outside to observe some more. It clearly lowered what seemed to be inches from my point of view, but could've possibly been hundreds of feet (depending on its distance.) I yelled out for my sister to "Hurry and get out here." Before she could come out and witness the anomaly, the red "fireball" flickered away into the night sky, just as a dying flame would. What bothers me most is that I had every opportunity to capture it on my phone, but as soon as I realized it wasn't Mars, it all just happened so fast, my phone wouldn't have made it in time. I'm glad I was at least able to capture a visual memory. As of a week later, I've seen no reports or videos on what I saw on that date, however, there are videos of fireballs doing exactly what I witnessed.

Posted 2023-05-19