Reports Report 5307cr (Event 5307-2025)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Laura H |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | The object seemed incredibly close to me, as I had to look up at quite a steep angle to see it. I was driving north in my car on Meridian Street, approximately 1 and 1/2 rural blocks south of the Labcorp security entrance. It seemed to appear out of nowhere, last for 2-3 seconds, and then quickly disappear. I was in my car with the windows up, but I did not hear any noise I would associate with the object. It seemed to be moving slightly away from me, entering my field of vision at a sharp angle starting at (using a clock face for reference) approximately 10:30, traveling towards 4. It did not seem to be very high up in the sky, but this could have been an illusion due to how quickly it was moving. I have never seen a celestial object that shade of green (really bright, lime green), and I have thought long and hard about whether it could have been a firework or something. Because of the irregular shape of the object (the green glow was in the shape of a very lumpy potato) and the angle it traveled (sharply sloped downwards) I do not believe it could have been man-made. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Greenfield, IN |
| Latitude | 39° 46' 26.35'' N (39.773987°) |
| Longitude | 85° 48' 2.39'' W (-85.800663°) |
| Elevation | 265.690643m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2025-08-25 05:42 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2025-08-25 09:42 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 126° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | - |
| First azimuth | 330° |
| First elevation | 41° |
| Last azimuth | 15° |
| Last elevation | 35° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -13 |
| Color | Green |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 1s |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | The tail appeared to be glowing a bright white color and looked like a severely acute triangle coming off the main green object. It dissipated almost immediately after the green object turned blue for a millisecond and disappeared. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The primary object was bright green with a bright white epicenter. It was present for less than 3 seconds in total. At the end, the object seemed to get ever so slightly bigger, there was less than half a moment of an orange/white light, and then the green returned for another half a moment and then the entire thing went dark. The tail disappeared a moment after the green object did. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |