Reported by Travis Neal from adsl-67-124-149-152.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net (67.124.149.152) on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 1:30AM : Okay, you may be thinking it was probably just a comet, but no, this was MUCH faster! Anyway, I am almost 13, and I was on a Boy Scout camp out to Mt. Tamalpais near San Francisco. 3 other scouts and I slept outside on a tarp underneath the stars (we forgot to bring a tent). One scout and I were looking at the stars: the Big Dipper, The Northern Star, Shooting Stars, all that stuff. Suddenly, we both saw a weird, yellow ball of light shoot across the western part of the sky. It was weird! The scout asked me, "Whoa! Did you see that huge shooting star?" I replied, "That wasn't a shooting star!"
I was right. To our point of view, it was about the size of a gum ball, and it was shot across the sky faster than a second, maybe about a millisecond!
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