Hello,
On December 19, 2007 I was driving home from work. At around 5:50pm EST,while I was stuck in traffic on I-75 just north of Cincinnati, I saw what I initially presumed to be a plane - the brilliance was similar to a plane's running lights (Mag -2 maybe?). Then it dawned on me that the object was moving faster than a typical plane. This was one time that I was glad I was stuck in gridlock, because it allowed me time to watch the object. It was moving faster than a plane but slower than a typical meteor. It was heading more or less due west. And it persisted for a bit: I'm estimating at least five seconds from when I first spotted it. Long enough for me to have this train of thought: "Hmmm... that's too fast to be a plane. Fireball? Maybe. No blinking lights. Wow, that's quite a fireball. Hmmm.. it's lasting pretty long. Could it hit? What if it hits? There it goes..." The fadeout clinched my guess that it was some sort of fireball.
Has anyone else seen it? I thought it had a bright green tint to it, but then again I might have been viewing it through the tint of my windshield. Could it have been reentering space debris? An atmospheric skipper?
Eric
On December 19, 2007 I was driving home from work. At around 5:50pm EST,while I was stuck in traffic on I-75 just north of Cincinnati, I saw what I initially presumed to be a plane - the brilliance was similar to a plane's running lights (Mag -2 maybe?). Then it dawned on me that the object was moving faster than a typical plane. This was one time that I was glad I was stuck in gridlock, because it allowed me time to watch the object. It was moving faster than a plane but slower than a typical meteor. It was heading more or less due west. And it persisted for a bit: I'm estimating at least five seconds from when I first spotted it. Long enough for me to have this train of thought: "Hmmm... that's too fast to be a plane. Fireball? Maybe. No blinking lights. Wow, that's quite a fireball. Hmmm.. it's lasting pretty long. Could it hit? What if it hits? There it goes..." The fadeout clinched my guess that it was some sort of fireball.
Has anyone else seen it? I thought it had a bright green tint to it, but then again I might have been viewing it through the tint of my windshield. Could it have been reentering space debris? An atmospheric skipper?
Eric
