NUFORC Sighting 04496

Occurred: 1998-09-23 21:11 Local
Reported: 1998-10-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Everett, WA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

Bright Green blazing ball passing from Northeast to Southwest burning out before the horizon.

I was driving on Southbound I-5 and just passed under the 23rd Street Bridge in Everett, WA (between exits 194 and 195) and suddenly out the top of the vehicle windsheild I observed a bright green ball with a brighter center pass throught the sky. It was trailing faint red sparks. I believed it burned out before reaching the horizion as i continued to follow the trajectory after it wnet out to see what would happen nothing did but I had no horizontal reference point so it may have passed over the horizon. The direction noted at the time was Northeast to Southwest. The altitude upon sighting was extremely high and then it lost altitude as it moved to the Southwest from the Northeast. The range from inception was just South and an undetermined distance east and it moved considerably down range during the sighting. As for the altitude and range estimations no Earth visual clues were availible. Immediately upon seeing this object I noted my watch as 9:11 Pacific Daylight Savings time. The object itself: Since there was not a frame of reference the exact or reasonably estimated size object is unknown. The object was large and the green light probaly could have illuminated clouds if they had been around. The color was bright emerald green. The center of the ball was almost bright white/green and it was about 20% of the diamter of the object. The object also trailed a sparky red tail that was about 2 times longer than the grren ball's diameter. Interesting to note is that I was driving at about 60 mph and the object was spotted out the top of the windsheild. I wonder how far it may have traveled before I started observing it. Also interesting there was no noise from this object. Bacground on the author. B.S. Civil Engineering from University of Washington. One year as Engineer (Paycode 4) at Boeing. 6 years in construction management and 1 year as strutural engineer and currently a Technical sales represenative

Posted 1998-11-01

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