NUFORC Sighting 179134

Occurred: 2023-10-27 18:46 Local
Reported: 2023-10-27 21:49 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Location details: I am located in the Bankers Hill neighborhood of San Diego. About 1.5 miles to San Diego Harbor

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Falling Fire Ball Disseminates into Five Hovering Orbs of Light

At around 6:46p PST, I was finishing up walking my dog near the gated entrance of our building on a cul du sac in Banker's Hill, San Diego. I turned to walk towards the gate, facing southwest towards San Diego Harbor and noticed what appeared to be a meteor falling in the sky. It was very bright and falling more slowly than I would have imagined a meteor to fall and I kept staring at it in awe as it continued its decent in the nights sky. I had watched for about 30 seconds and yelled to my neighbor who was also walking her dog to look up in the sky. She asked, "what is that?" and I began filming as best I could. The tail of fire had begun to descend beyond my line of sight due to the tree line ahead but just as it neared the tops of the trees, the fire separated out into 5 rays of falling light and then began moving into a more horizontal formation which clearly became 5 separate hovering orbs of light. 4 of the orbs began moving west across the harbor and 1 orb can be seen moving west and then shifting towards the east. I ran down the street to get to a place with an unobstructed view of the harbor and only one orb remained for a brief moment before disappearing towards the south. I have captured 2 videos depicting what I saw. The first video is the very tail end of the meteor like fiery formation falling from the sky and you can see it separate out into 5 separate lines. The next video captures the 5 hovering orbs, right above the tree line as it began to descend lower over the harbor and then finally disappear. In the first video, you see the fire/light and hear my neighbor exclaim, "Okay...it's breaking up now." In the second video, it immediately starts with showing the 5 separate orbs and then I ran down the street and the video is poor but when you get to the last 00:30 seconds left you see one remaining orb over the harbor and I exclaim, "there it is" and then it quickly disappears.

Posted 2023-10-28