A fireball shot in a lazy arc over the hillside, billowing a plume of bright orange flames, then extinguished and floated as a hazy orb

EVENT DATE

Sep 25, 2023, 1:50 AM

LOCATION

Tehachapi, CA, USA

NUFORC FIELDS

Open NUFORC

SHAPE

Fireball

DURATION (NUFORC)

5 min(00:05:00)

WITNESSES (NUFORC)

1.0

CHARACTERISTICS (NUFORC)

Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

NARRATIVE

I was sitting on my 2nd story back porch facing south at 1:50AM when a large fireball erupted up and over the hill and silently billowed out colorful flames. They were blue, orange, and pink- very vibrant with a smoky trail. It then changed to a horizontal trajectory and faded into an orange orb in a vertical column if light with a faint orange trail. It then slowly and silently floated from southwest to southeast of my location, taking a curved path across the valley
Falcon 9
SpaceX
SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB

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