Monday, July 6, 2009

Report: Fireball in the sky above the East Village

From an EV Grieve reader last night:

Two people just saw a fireball in the sky moving from west to east above the EV. Was sighted from the rooftop on 3rd street and ave B. Both people said it looked like a burning ball of fire, but did not go out as expected as it climbed from 50' to several hundred in seconds.
Thought it was a Chinese lantern at first, but if that was the case it should have blown out. Couldn't be a flare because it was a flame and not dropping sparks.


Anyone see this? Do you have any ideas or explanation as to what this may have been? (And no Lady GaGa jokes, please.)
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11 comments:

  1. Bowery BoogieJuly 6, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    umm, what!?

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  2. Barbara L. HansonJuly 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    Sounds very much like the meteor I saw over Houston St a few years ago.

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  3. GirlJuly 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM

    Meteors don't "climb" from 50' to several thousand, do they?

    Leftover firecracker maybe?

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  4. EV GrieveJuly 6, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    Very mysterious....

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  5. esquared™July 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM

    Superdive fratboys lighting up their fart.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM

    not sure if this was the same thing, but I did witness several people attempting to light and fly a burning Chinese lantern about 2 or 3 feet high last night, on 3rd street, between Ave A & B. At the time it really looked like something really stupid to be doing in the middle of the city ...

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  7. MarnieJuly 6, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    i saw it too, from a rooftop on 3rd and C. It floated upward seeming very much like a runaway helium balloon, but it was glowing orange. It looked like fire but not like something ON fire. it definitely looked contained in its sphere and was neither getting brighter nor extinguishing.

    I got photos but they look like... a glowing orange dot in the black sky. In other words, absolutely not helpful.

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  8. EV GrieveJuly 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM

    Thanks anon and Marnie...appreciate the eyewitness accounts.

    I'm still going with UFO, though!

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  9. that's not artJuly 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM

    I totally saw it last night, too! I was having a cigarette on my roof on 9th and Ave C. At first I thought it was a plane that was on fire.. but then it kept going higher and disappeared. Very weird.

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  10. EV GrieveJuly 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM

    Thanks, Randy.

    The plot thickens...

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  11. AnonymousApril 16, 2010 at 8:40 AM

    We were flying back from Mass to Islip last night at around 9:30 pm and saw a huge fireball everyone int our plane (A Baron) saw it as did the guys in a Bonanza we were following we asked the tower at Isp if anyone reported a crash but there was nothing. Sure looked like a crash to us

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