It appears to explode, but from the explosion comes four smaller ufo's
http://tinyurl.com/dcewg

looks like a missle or a plane or something like that with nightvision

Sorry, but to me it looks exactly like a meteor breaking up in the atmosphere. It appears to be a good-sized one (VW Bug sized?) as it continued to be a fireball so deep into the atmosphere. The dust-grained sized ones (shooting stars) burn out much higher up.

Alright, my bad everyone

Yup, definately a meteor...


No problem Toker, it's still a good vid to watch...

Nothing bad about it Toke. As MF said, it's a good watch and their is nothing wrong with curiousity. If you have never seen a fireball before, how could you be expected to know what you are looking at?

NO.. not your bad at all!

It is amazing to watch- I have NO idea what this was.. HIS FULL report should be read before making an assumption of a meteorite- it is found here:

40 Miles SouthEast Of Sonora California Exploding Object Amazing Video Footage

Posted: January 20, 2006

Date: January 18th, 2006 Time: Noticed first at 5:22pm and lasted till about 5:42pm

Good Day, At approximately 5:02pm (PST) I went into the backyard to see why my dog was barking. While I was out there I did my general habit of scanning the skies for anything out of the unusual. A few clouds in the background along with mostly blue skies and nothing else.

I decided to rake some leaves as we had had a storm blow thru and knock off the last of them. At about 5:22pm I had finished and again glanced around the skies. This time there was what I thought was either a very bright star or perhaps even Venus in the Southern region.

I thought this rather strange as I would've thought that nothing could be seen yet as the Sun was just starting to set. I observed this object for a good 3 or 4 minutes and it didn't appear to be moving which just increased my curiousity. I decided to retrieve my binoculars and get perhaps a closer look of this bright star or planet. A few minutes later I'm zeroing in on this bright object and could tell right off that this wasn't a star or planet as I've observed both from the same vantage point and this object was much to big to be either.

Since I had a teleconversion lens already attached to my camcorder I decided to tape a bit of it as one never knows. After a few more minutes I had my tripod set up and zoomed in on the object. I was able to use a normal viewing mode with no need to use nitevision as there was still more than enough available ambient light. Then I noticed something peculiar.

At the bottom of this big bright luminous object, another smaller object possibly 1/15th (or smaller) the size appeared below the larger object. I immediately started recording and continued taping for the continuation of this event. The sun had set and I wondered if by switching to "NiteVision" mode would reveal evenmore. It was then that I saw what I thought was another object come out of the smaller object and start traveling upward above both the smaller and larger object. In retrospect, I now believe that what I thought was another object was in fact the middle star in "Orions Belt" that was hidden by both objects.

But not knowing this at the time, I actually thought that I might have encountered a craft moving away from the larger object and so followed it for several minutes. The larger object was probably somewhere between 95-110 degrees arc in the southern sky and was very slowly moving towards the west, meanwhile what I thought was another craft was moving steadily upward.

I decided to zoom back a bit and include the larger object along with the other upwardly moving object. Within about one minute of my doing so, the larger object explodes (or possibly implodes) and tumbles back to the earth with a shower of debris and smoke. I followed the tumbling pieces for another minute or so until I was not able see any more of it.

Included is a Digitaly Processed frame that shows both the large and small object and a small graphic showing the POV (Point of View) of the cameraperson and where Orion's belt was at the time.

I should point out that my cameras clock is exactly one hour fast on the video as I've not changed it yet. I also shorten segments of the 6 minutes or so of footage to show the object first in daylite and then later with "NiteVision" so as to have a point of reference for the viewer.

Location: 40 Miles SouthEast of Sonora California

Date of Event: January 18th, 2006

Time of Event: Noticed first at 5:22pm and lasted till about 5:42pm

Number of Witnesses: 2 (Myself and my dog)

Duration of Event: About 20 minutes including being first noticed by the naked eye

Type of Object: Unknown, extremely bright white and luminous

Size of Object: Had to be quite large for the amount of debris and compared to a star 15 times smaller

Shape of Object: Spheroid/Round

Approximately 17 minutes later as I was arriving for a dinner get-together, I observed a glowing luminous spheroid rapidly moving (perhaps three times as fast as a commercial airliner) to the NorthEast and was able capture 'free-hand' with a camcorder about a minute of it which I will send you within the next day. But its rather anti-climatic compared to this event...

Interesting side-note is that in our neck of the woods several researchers and myself were just commenting on how nothing has happen in the hills or the foothills of California for over a month and a half.

UFORA Member Johnny Anonymous

Report, photos and footage are © 2006 Johnny Anonymous.

Video clip 40 Miles SouthEast Of Sonora California Exploding Object - Video Footage

http://www.hbccufo.org/videos/EXPLODE_Jan18_JA_Short.wmv

Link with Pictures and video found here:

http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=Ne...rticle&sid=3766

Also it is on this site here with 4 of the videos :

11. January 18, 2006 - 40 Miles Southwest of Sonora, California
Man Takes Video of Spherical Object That Breaks Up

View Segment One Video

View Segment Two Video

View Segment Three Video

View Segment Four Video

Link: http://www.ufosnw.com/index.htm

If the object was traveling in his line of sight, it would appear motionless, perhaps gaining in intensity. Nothing to rule out a meteor here.
Meteor begins to calve.
More calving
It wasn't moving up, it was decellerating more quickly and being left behind.
End of the meteor, about to become a meteorite.
The Cancrid and Virginid meteor showers peak very near this date and are known for not sticking to their radiants.
Too easy. I won't comment.
*moan* Here we go...
It's been over 3 weeks now...

It's a meteor.

Wow, nature creates some pretty amazing things

I've not seen ANY news reports stating this was a Meteor in Cali by the news or UFO investigators of various sites yet. I am still looking for any headlines or mentions about this. The guy who taped this does not seem like a bimbo to me in his observation write up.

All I am finding out there right now is arguments on other various forums as to what this actually was and they certainly make very good points and are not JUST ASSUMING it was a meteor.

Here is a good video to watch from BBC website of an example of a meteor..

Meteor Light Show in Australia

I am not saying it is was or was not a meteor..
The guy who video taped this might have a REAL job and has not gotten back with an update on any findings. It might also be in the websites interest to give comment on it as well as many do after they investigate it. I am sure Brian Vike is looking into it.. He is very good with HBCC.

Investigations can be time consuming.. and CAN be botched up.. (as mine was!) Anyway.. I hope there will be updates to what this really was or was not.

Edit>> I have found where a meteor was seen from that same day however this was seen in the early morning in Canada, and the pictures do not look similar at all:

Yukon Meteor Flash Caught on Film
"The flash occurred around 8:45 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on January 18 over the remotely populated stretch of northwestern Canada"

Link to article and pics here:
Link: http://www.space.com/news/yukon_flash_000128.html

My impression of the meteor show you provided is that it is a metallic one. They are brighter and it looked as if it remained fairly intact untill it hit the ground.

The meteor in question on this thread looks like a stony one, explaining why it broke up so much. The stony meteor will tear apart.

Peekskill Meteor

As you will notice, this meteor bears a striking resemblance to toker's video.

Here are a few quotes from the accompanying article.


The video was shot just after sunset, which also supports my earlier statement about the angle of approach.
The entire article can be found here. Don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of the page, They have more fireball photos and videos. Check out this one from 9 January 2006. Just 9 days before Toker's video, during the same shower.
9 January 2006 Fireball