Had I been quicker, I could have shared the viewing of a strange fireball, that both my wife and co-worker viewed from our living room in 1996-7?

We were sitting around one evening talking, my wife and co-worker were sitting on the couch near the window, I was sitting opposite them in a chair across the living room. The curtains were drawn almost completely. While she was talking, my wife got up and walked over to the front screen porch door and with increasing volume and pitch, exclaimed: “Wow! WoW! WOW!!”, my co-worker looked through the small break in the curtain and saw the same thing my wife was seeing, I unfortunately did not get to the door quickly enough, in a matter of seconds it was gone.

I made them both describe in detail what they saw, as it was obvious they were intrigued but not overly excited about what they had seen, and it was clear to me they would soon forget about it.

They both described a “Fireball” Greenish-blue, with a trail. What was surprising was that it came over the corn field (We lived on a farm at the time) about 20ft off the ground, in a horizontal path, and then after crossing over the corn field, it turned and went over the top of the trees and disappeared over the horizon.

With my limited knowledge of meteors, I think it’s safe to say they don’t turn, or rise in their trajectory.

I only regret that I wasn’t fast enough to catch a glimpse of it myself.

I have seen “U.F.O’s” on two occasions, and am therefore more open to the concept, but I am hesitant to jump to the conclusion that they are ET in origin. I think that what we don’t know about the universe, for that matter our world, so vastly out weighs what little we do know, that it is silly to claim an ET connection, without further evidence.

Cool report!

Thank you. You would think that with all the “green meteorite” sightings, there would be some sort of explanation offered by now.

Congratulations Greg on your UFO sighting! (Couldn’t one say that a thing zooming through the sky is “flying” or at least close enough? Ah, UFO semantics!) Aside from all the other green fireball sightings you’ve mentioned, there was one not long ago ( couple months back I believe) here in Oregon, and a few years ago (and I think more recently as well) up in Washington and Brittish Columbia. . .

quote: December 1946

Zwicky secures cooperation of Army Ordnance officers and obtains payload space in a V-2 rocket for use in his dramatic experiment. The proof-of-principle launch will be conducted at night to allow visual and photographic observation of the artificial meteors produced by ejection of small Army rifle grenades at high altitude. When the shaped charges are fired, they will produce jets of iron or copper particles that should be briefly visible as meteor-like trails. Dr James Van Allen of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory supervises installation of the test equipment in the V-2 warhead. Actual construction of the grenade launcher assembly is handled by the New Mexico School of Mines in Albuquerque.

16 December 1946

In calibration of the imminent experiment, rifle grenades are launched to low altitude at night from the Organ Mountains near the White Sands missile range launch site and are photographed by telescopes and cameras.

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things get strange when Harvard astronomer Fred Whipple ” reverses his earlier support for the project…”

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Probably, although I don’t know how far my peripheral vision extends, expecially outside of the lenses of my glasses.

Seems that these things aren’t that rare, although it still doesn’t explain the New Mexico “flap” of the late 1940s, especially if we’re talking crashing satellites. Actually, the descriptions from the time differ a bit (or more) from all of these green streaks we’re seeing now. Yours sounds pretty amazing.

I know the Apple Valley area. I’ve flown from a dry lake there a few times. It does get very dark out there.

No one seems to be really debunking the sighting, probably because I left the interpretation open, with a meteorite being the likely culprit. Although, as I said, there seems to be no explanation for the green color or the gold thing in front. Perhaps it was just space junk.

Many spy satellites are placed in polar orbit, which would explain the south-to-north trajectory.

Ix-nay on the oax-hay!!

Anyway, it appears that La Paz was contacted by the AAF to determine the trajectory of the Roswell object, although I’m not at all certain if there is good documentation on this.