Great Ball of Fire!: Other Balls of Fire I

In my effort to find other UFO fireballs (Please refer to my first article in this series, called Great Ball of Fire) in the Whittier Narrows and surrounding area, I was stunned to find so many UFO sightings in the area—almost every month going back at least five years. What’s even more stunning; the large amount of UFO fireball sightings. It’s staggering to think, these accounts are mostly from regular people reporting to Law Enforcement, so there must be many more UFO sightings not reported. Case-in-point: we never reported our fireball to the police. For the sake of brevity I’ve selected only those accounts that most closely resembled our sighting. Also, sightings that were clearly meteors were excluded.

It’s fascinating to hear other people’s sightings. Some are scant and others rich in detail. The first one wasn’t even a month ago!

Consider!

Occurred: 7/14/2010 11:15

Location: El Monte/Monterey Park (between), CA

Shape: Teardrop

Duration: 1 minute

Gray oval teardrop shaped craft flying over LA County

I was riding on the Metro link from San Bernardino to the Cal State LA station, seated on the side of the train looking south. Listening to music and watching the scenery pass by I looked up to the sky at about a 35 to 45 degree angle and saw what at first I took to be an airliner that was traveling east to west.I quickly realized that the shape was not right and that it was not a more whitish color. It had more of a gray metallic look, and there seemed to be no wings. This happened rather fast and when I wanted to try to study it more the train passed a few buildings that blocked my view, and when the train passed the buildings, it was gone.

Occurred: 4/8/2010 09:45

Location: Downey, CA

Shape: Sphere

Duration: 1 hour

Orb hovers for more than an hour

I was golfing at Rio Hondo golf course. Our tee time was 9:30. While walking to the second tee I looked up into the sky because the course is in the airports flight path. While looking up (about 75 degrees upward) and facing North, I noticed a shiny orb in the sky. I told my friend, who had a hard time seeing it without polarized sunglasses. As I continued to look around, another one appeared higher and to the left of the first. And finally a third appears almost directly overhead. The second and third one stayed for about 10 minutes. However, the first one I spotted stayed within visual range (never moving from its relative position) for more than an hour.


Occurred: 2/25/2010 20:24

Location: Temple City, CA

Shape: Light

Duration: 3-4 minutes
My lady & I witnessed an orange light floating like a balloon moving. Then stopped moving, for about 20sec nothing happened until a streak of light shot out from directly under object like a fireball disappearing. Then the object started flickering proceeding to float farther away when it divided up into about 4-6 individual lights. from that point the individual lights started blasting off one by one at a 45degree angle like a fireball towards the sky disappearing.

Occurred: 1/4/2010 17:40

Location: Whittier, CA

Shape: Light

Duration: 3 seconds

Thick bright light travels across southern California then disappears? 

I went outside just to look at the night sky for no particular reason, and then I saw a thick bright light heading in the direction of north east. It was traveling very slowly, at first I thought it was an aircraft, and then I realized it had no blinking lights then about 3 seconds later it completely faded away. I have no idea nor explanation what it could of been, I know I have pretty good judgment to separate fact or fiction, but this light that completely disappear after traveling very slow completely baffled me.

Continued in next installment.