NUFORC Sighting 73776

Occurred: 2009-12-23 21:00 Local
Reported: 2009-12-23 07:37 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Grafton, MA, USA

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

Orange ball shoots across the sky.

I was standing on my back porch with my dog and looking at the stars and watching the treetops sway in the breeze. It was a pretty clear night, there was a crescent moon to the left and stars and dark to the right.

An orange ball appeared out of nowhere above the tree tops - it was bigger than the moon, but it seemed very far away. It was really quiet. I looked at it, trying to figure out what it was. Then - bam! - it took off. It looked like a big cone. It went left - horizontally - across the sky and then disappeared.

I thought maybe it was a comet or something but all the pictures of comets I see online are white/blue - not orange - and this was very orange. It also didn't dissipate, like a shooting star does. And it went horizontal, it did not move DOWN it went ACROSS.

NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD

Posted 2010-02-14