To: ufosnw@rt66.com From: () Subject: UFO Sighting Reports Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by () on Wednesday, March 25, 1998 at 18:26:45 location: The Sierras above Echo Summit, Lake Tahoe, Ca. date: Spring 1992 time: 3AM sighting: I saw a large ball of fire rising up out of the Tahoe Basin which looked like the view of large jet exhaust flying away from me. It suddenly started darting all over the night sky with tremendous speeds, but it stopped and started instantly, with no acceleration. It was moving so fast it's trajectories looked like a line of light like a neon tube. I later spoke with two people who saw the same thing, exactly, but one of them saw this same object doing the same thing this past summer, five years later. Another of them was so affected by his encounter that he has been collecting reports from people here in Thaoe who have seen the same thing- again exactly- a ball of orange fire emerging from the lake or the basin and making jerky high speed motions before speeding straight up out of the atmosphere. I have been around aviation all my life. I know this thing was doing over 5000 miles per hour. In my own sighting, it finally rose to about fifteen thousand feet, hovered for a couple of seconds and then shot straight up at a speed so great it was really astonishing. In silence, it rose up out of the atmosphere in a instant, and again, it's path looked like an orange neon tube for an instant, stretching up forever. I am very interested to hear from anyone in the Tahoe Basin or outlying Nevada areas who has seen this same thing. Jharrod@oakweb.com