“The Green Fireball

January 1991, 3:30 a.m., Road T, Saguache County:
My new band, Expedition, had just ended a weekend in Salida at the venerable Lamplighter Lounge…

…I remember that bitterly-cold moonless night and the ride home vividly. I was proceeding east toward Crestone on Road T, just before the first S-turn, my ears still ringing from that night’s performance, when I noticed a crackling, static sound in my ears. The strange sound reminded me of white noise between AM radio stations. I slowed the truck. Movement over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near the Great Sand Dunes drew my attention and from the southeast, I beheld a huge, brilliant-green, full-moon-sized glittering ball of light gliding up the range!

Behind it streamed a short tail. It remained at a constant altitude parallel to the mountain tops and the distance it traveled, from the moment I first spotted it, until it disappeared from view to the north, must have been seventy-five to eighty miles. It covered the distance in less than five seconds!

As the object sailed north toward Salida, the high-frequency crackling sound in my ears faded. I was so tired from playing, and driving the eighty-miles home, that the sighting didn’t really register fully until the following day, when I mentioned the experience to a couple of friends.”

Check your email about Ray’s trip… if you can make it, you are invited.

How ya been? It depends on work, but I’d really like to come out for whatever it is that Ray’s speaking on/ for.

Your fireball episode sounds like a pretty spectacular sighting. For a few months in the mid-1990s, I and others saw green, streaking fireballs with tails heading earthwards right in the middle of Los Angeles. Both times that I saw them, I was in the car, and heard nothing.

I have personally have seen one of these events — Jan 1991. It was at least full-moon sized and featured what appeared to be a short trailing tail. It was a glittering light green color and it raced along the Sangre de Cristo Mountains—from S to N just above the tops of the peaks and disappeared over the northern part of the valley near Poncha Pass. The weather at the time was well below zero, it was crystal clear and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I remember hearing a static-like sound in my head during the event. During my time in the valley I had dozens of sightings of weird objects and this fireball was by far the largest anomalous object I hvave ever witnessed.

’sup Greg? Ray’s coming to town in early November to give a presentation, wanna come?

The ones available at the download page are a bit confusing, as I was still learning how to upload at the time. The one that begins the title with “blood rituals” is in 2 parts. The other (near the bottom of the list) was recorded on another date. Essentially, there is one two-parter listed under 2 segments on the main page.

I hope that makes sense, and thanks for the compliment!

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Funny, I saw a couple of them fireballs too–right in the middle of Los Angeles, both times in the late afternoon. This was about 8 years ago. They looked almost, but not quite like fireworks–bright green and heading straight earthward. They were perhaps 500 feet up. How did yours look?