NUFORC Sighting 90448

Occurred: 2012-07-04 21:30 Local
Reported: 2012-07-04 23:05 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Erie, PA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Giant orange/red globe slowly moving across the sky.

I was on the way home from a 4th of July picnic with my family. It was 9:30 EST time and fireworks were being set off around town. There were plenty of fireworks all around, but I looked out of the window and seen an orange/red ball of fire in the sky, sitting high above them. It was slowly moving across the sky, almost like how the moon will follow you when you drive, but once we got about 5 miles away from it we could only see it if we looked back. There was no noise and it was silent. No one sitting outside of their houses seemed to notice it being that they were looking in the other direction at fireworks. There were four of us in the car who all seen it. My husband tried to convince everyone that it was a Chinese candle balloon, but the funny thing was the last time we looked back at it before it was out of our view, you could see two planes flying towards it-all of which looked like ants in its giant comparison.

I'd say the light could've been at leas!t half the size of the moon.

Posted 2012-08-05

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