Date: January 18, 2010
Time: Approx: 5:40 p.m.
Location of Sighting: New Hope, PA.
Number of witnesses: two
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Large Ball of fire falling from the sky.
Full Description of Event/Sighting: Hi Brian, My friend and I were driving South on Route 202 in New Hope on 1/18/10, around 5:40 p.m., when all of a sudden I noticed a large ball of fire falling from the sky directly in front of us. It was moving quickly and seemed to burn out before hitting the ground. At first I thought it was a plane and then I realized it was too small, but definitely too large to be a falling star.
I quickly mentioned it to my friend who said she saw it as well, but wasn't able to get the words out before I did. We couldn't believe what we had seen. A minute later we saw a smoke trail where the ball of fire had been. Was it a meteor? Please let me know if anyone figures out what this sighting was. Thanks.
Date: January 18, 2010
Time: 5:37 p.m.
My husband, myself and Grandson also saw exactly what you indicated last night at 5:37pm. I live in Newark, Delaware and was on Rt. 4 driving home (right next to the new Barclays Credit Card Center) and out of no where this huge ball of bright white light descended from the sky very quickly and fell south west down. When I pulled up to my sister's house (2 minutes later) we told her what happened and looked outside and could see a smoke trail where this thing traveled.
I've been all over the internet last night, looking for anyone else who witnessed this and this morning I found you. I know others have had to see it and I'd sure like to know what we saw!
Anymore news please let me know.
Date: January 18, 2010
Time: Approx: 5:30 p.m.
Brian, I saw the falling ball of light too on January 18th. I thought it was closer to 5:30 PM, but I'm not sure. I didn't have any timepieces on me. I live in Collegeville, PA, and I saw it fall from the sky west of me. It happened so fast, and no one else was around. I started to doubt my own eyes. I waited to hear a sound, and I heard nothing. I kept checking the news and I saw nothing about it.
I've never been on your website before. When I didn't see anything on the news I began doing internet searches, and then your website came up with a sighting.
Since nothing seems to have hit the ground I wonder if it was space junk burning up.
Date: January 18, 2010
Time: Evening.
Mr. Vike, My fiancé and I were walking Monday evening and saw the ball of light that you described. My fiancé saw it a few seconds before I did and he said he saw blue and green colors before it turned a yellow color. I saw the yellow ball of light before it disappeared. We couldn't believe our eyes and I wondered if anyone else saw it. When I got to work I told a friend and she looked on the internet and found your article. We live in Six Mile Run, PA.
It's about 10 miles from the town of Saxton and approximately 15 miles from Breezewood. According to the Baltimore Sun, there were several sightings in Maryland. It's amazing to think we were in the right place at the right time to see a rare occurrence such as this.
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