Posted by Skeptical (24.120.199.99) on October 14, 2002 at 22:47:27:
While driving down West Craig in North Las Vegas, at approximatey 7:30 p.m. (just after dark) my girlfriend and I saw a very large and bright sphere emerging at high speed over the mountain. Behind it was a glowing trail of exhaust. The sphere kind of exploded like a firework, but much smaller blast radius, then immediately changed trajectory and appeared to ascend directly up where it disappeared from view. The glowing exhaust trail lasted for about 10 minutes. It was somewhat cloudy, but clouds in the same area were not glowing. Just the exhaust.