NUFORC Sighting 12676

Occurred: 2000-01-10 21:30 Local
Reported: 2000-04-21 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: San Diego, CA, USA

Shape: Light

Green ball of light flying up from bushes.

I was driving south on I-163 in San Diego at aprox. 9:30pm on Jan. 10 2000. The freeway travels through the marine corps air station, Mira Mar. Its basiically three miles of darkness at night. As I was looking at the moon low on the horizon, I saw a green light shoot up from the bushes ahead of me to the right. It arced up to about 100 ft. and leveled off then casually moved horizontally towards the freeway above me. The last view I had of it was leaning over my stearing wheel looking straight up at it. I was so deep in thought as to what the hell it was that I missed my exit four miles down the road. There was no structure surounding the light and it's movement was slightly erratic. Although I was traveling 70mph, I got a good look at it. It was about the size of a soccer ball and green like a traffic light. The air base does touch and goes routinely but in my 23 years of traveling this freeway, Ive never seen a light in the sky behave this way. My windows were up and I didnt hear any sound. I'm a 38 year old male.

Posted 2000-04-26