NUFORC Sighting 146197

Occurred: 2001-07-24 18:30 Local
Reported: 2019-05-19 03:12 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 6

Location: East Prospect, PA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

It was between 530pm and 630pm on July 24th, 2001; me, my brother and 4 friends were walking up miesenhelder rd to the baseball field near our house in East prospect, Pennsylvania when we saw a ball of fire bigger than anything we have ever seen in our lives shoot through the sky and disappear off in the horizon.

It took literally 3 to 5 seconds to shoot across the sky.

To the extent that only 4 of the 6 of us seen it.

It was a massive fireball with smoke and almost like a tail of white/blue flames.

We didn't know what it was. It was much bigger than a massive cargo plane crashing it was that big.

All these years later I still remember it.

We ran home to my house and had my stepdad drive us looking for the wreckage but couldn't find it.

Later on that night the news claimed it was "probably " a massive meteor crashing in a corn field near Grand Canyon, Pennsylvania but no remains were found.

However it was unlike any "shooting star" we have ever seen. Living in the country we were used to seeing meteors during the pitch black of night.

Thing is this was during the daylight in the summer and it burned bright.

I recently found an old news article talking about it.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/24/fire.ball/index.html

The reason why I am reporting it is because it was around the same area, we seen massive triangle UFO's in the sky several times.

Posted 2019-06-07