Appearance / Description of Object(s)

An extremely bright fireball with a trail. Yellow like fire in color. It travelled left to right slope kind of over 540... so not sure if north south east west...have to look at a map. Again it was very low low in the sky. It was definitley lower than a plane landing at RDU airport and planes do not land in the direction that the fireball was going (sloping down). RDU is on the left side of 540 and the fireball sloped downward to the right side of 540.

Size of Object(s)

relative size= put my hands 1 foot across from each other. The fireball was not tiny. actual= who can really tell. guess about 20 ft plus all around.

Description of Area / Surroundings

RDU airport is nearby but there was no way it was a plane. It was a cold, crisp, extremely clear night. The stars were out. When you are driving on 540 it is a wide open sky. You would have to be blind not to have seen that fireball.

Full Description & Details

We were driving on 540 towards RDU airport approx 9pm on 1/31/06 but there was no way it was a plane. We were probably near the Lumley road exit or so. An extremely bright fireball thing with a trail went left to right, extremely low in the horizon (sky) and then disappeared (disintigrated). It had a left to right slope travelling direction which was very low in the horizon. We did not even have to look up to see it. It just appeared as we were looking out the windshield as we were driving. It was definitely lower than a plane landing at RDU airport. Also planes do not land at RDU airport in the direction the fireball was going (sloping down). RDU airport is on the left side of 540 there and the fireball went to the right. It seemed to travel in a slow downward sloping direction but lasted I would say 3 seconds.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No way. Not even a plane.

Witness Background

moved from long island, ny in 8/05. accounting backround. bs in accounting. 43 yrs old mom & wife.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

Neither me or my aunt (who was driving) read up on ufo's. We are not obsessed about them either. We just saw what we saw and it was not a plane. We coming back from volunteering with taking care of quadruplets.

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