NUFORC Sighting 171062

Occurred: 2022-08-12 05:30 Local
Reported: 2022-08-12 09:47 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Abbeville, MS, USA
Location details: Almost directly overhead from my house but a bit to the Southeast

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I don't believe what I saw was a craft.

I was looking up hoping to see a perseid meteor. All of a sudden out of my peripheral to my right a bit I saw a flash. I was facing toward the east overhead at the time. When I focused on the area where the flash was, what looked like a flare or a sparkler fell and was glowing as it fell. It fizzled out after falling for 5 or 6 seconds and another one illuminated and fell. I watched as one by one they fell from the same spot in the sky. 7 or 8 of them over the course of about a minute. They fell straight down from the same spot in the sky like they were following each other straight down. Pretty high up and a bit southeast from my location but almost overhead. Sky was very clear and I live in a rural area. It was dead quiet. No planes passing overhead, and to low to be a satellite. I got a really good look at it. I finally ran into the house to get my phone to try and film it. When I got back outside it had stopped. I lived in Alaska for 30 years and was constantly going out to watch satellites, northern lights, meteor showers and the stars. I am almost 70 years old and have never seen anything quite like this. I am prior military and it almost reminded me of chaff or decoy flares shot out of a plane. This was totally different as they all originated from the same spot in the sky and followed each other straight down. I'm certain there was no plane as it was dead quiet. Totally freaked me out and I was shaking when I went back to tell my wife. This is something I will never forget as long as I live. I called the Oxford police department to ask if anyone else had reported anything and they told me no. I was hoping it had been observed by someone else. Wish I had got it on video and thought I'd report it to you. I couldn't see what or where these glowing objects originated from. I am color blind so don't know what color they were.

Posted 2022-09-09