SIGHTING: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I was standing out on the front stoop at around 8:30 pm with my brother and we both saw a white light move slowly from left to right across the sky. I pointed it out to my brother at the same time that he noticed it. It wasn't flashing like a typical airplane which was why it grabbed our attention. There was one small thin cloud to the right of the white light but it was not obscuring it in anyway when we were watching the light. The light then dimmed to red and disappeared. The whole sighting lasted 3-4 seconds.
I also saw something similar at dusk on the weekend of Hurricane Matthew. It was sunset and I was outside looking at the pretty clouds. The upper clouds were pink and orange and stationary and the lower clouds were dark blue and moving south very fast as the hurricane moved north. I saw a bright white light suddenly appear. As one of the lower clouds moved passed it I could see that it was a round white ball that suddenly just disappeared. This was in the same area of sky as the later sighting above. At the time I thought it was some type of ball lightening related to the storm. It also lasted only about 2-3 seconds."