Appearance / Description of Object(s)

it was a brilliant green/white light shaped like a star at first, then when it was stable, it appeared slightly oblong or elliptical and equally as bright.

Size of Object(s)

From where I was standing, my thumb could have covered it. I don't know how to accurately estimate the actual size from the distance we were standing. Maybe 20 to 30 feet across.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

An 1/8 of a mile away & about 40 feet above & to the east of the fireworks display.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Ir was an urban area near a fireworks display about 1/8 mile away.

Full Description & Details

One warm evening in May, the local Main Street restaurants brought lots of people out to dine. While my friend & I were dining we heard some very loud popping sounds outside. The sound was loud enough to bring many people out of the restaurants & onto the street. Everyone looked to the clear night sky to see the fireworks bursting over the University's nearby football field ( about 1/8 of a mile away). It was apparently a celebration by a local high school there. While watching the fireworks to the west in the clear blue/black sky, I saw a brilliant green/white light shoot down from far above us in the east. Thinking it was a bright shooting star, I continued to watch. Then it stopped and hovered slightly to the east above the fireworks & football field. It stayed in the same place for about two minutes. Then the fireworks slowed down & stopped with this hovering green light still in place. Then the bright green light suddenly shot up diagonally back into the clear night sky above us in the same direction it came from! The light became smaller & smaller & seemed to disappear. I was stunned to see such an unexplainable sight of what I would now call a ufo. I only shared the sighting with my friend who was mainly focused on some of the fireworks & other people on Main Street.

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

At first it appeared to be a shooting star, but it stopped & hovered & went back up where it came from.

Witness Background

Former professor

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I've been aware of sightings in the news before but had never seen anything that resembled one.

Other Comments

I wonder if other people also reported this sighting that night.

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