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UFO. South Africa

ID #1625071396
Added Wed, 30/06/2021
Author July N.
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
22.11.2009 22:55
Location: 
Йоханнесбург
South Africa

My friend and I were driving in a southerly direction when this ellipsoid of light entered the car. The light was flat and thin, and I reacted that it was light, and the next moment, when the night turned into day, it was so bright and remained so, so I said that it was not shining, and looked out of the car window to the east.

Across the sky from north to south, an arc across the sky was a huge fireball. It started from under the cloud line and continued moving up in an arc as I watched, and then the whole thing just disappeared, it was really big and moving fast, everything was red with black cast parts, as if it had appeared right out of a movie.

It was really big, and the plume was at the same distance as the head, and then went nowhere. The head was like a boiling gas, pumped into the sky, and then disappeared, there are no traces of vapors, nothing.

Other people reported seeing colored lights. This is really the strangest thing I've seen, they say it was a meteor, but there are 3 wrong things:

1. he was going up, not down

2. how many meteors turns night into day

3. it disappeared, and if it fell their ground could have been a noticeable explosion and a crater somewhere, since this was the big official version, if it exploded and they are looking for parts of it, I didn't see any debris.

At 10.55 am, the sky was blue. It was so clear that it was visible for 600 km.

Original news

Date: November 22 2009
Location: Johannesburg South Africa
Time: 22:55
Summary: My friend and I were driving in a Southerly direction when this ellipsoid of light entered the vehicle. The light was flat and thin and I reacted it was lightening, the next moment night became day it was so bright and stayed like that so i said that’s not lightening and looked out of the car window to the east Across the sky from North to south arching across the sky was a massive fireball It started from below the cloud line and proceeded up across the arc as I watched and then the whole thing just disappeared it was really big and traveling fast, the whole thing was red with black cast pieces as if it had come straight out of a movie It was really big and the plume was the same distance as the head and then trailed to nothing The head was like boiling gas pumping into the sky and then gone, no vapor trail nothing Other people reported seeing coloured lights. It is truly the most bizarre thing I have seen, they say it was a meteor, but there is 4 things wrong 1. it was going up not down, 2 how many meteors make night into day,3 it vanished and if that had hit the ground their would have been a bang of note and crater somewhere as it was big official version is it exploded and they are looking for bits of it, I did not see any debris and for 10.55 at night the sky was blue it was so clear It was seen 600km
Source: National UFO Reporting Center

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Meteor

Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.

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