Video: Bright Red UFO Launches Orb - Greer, SC - 7/3/09

Witness statement: My son and I were camping out in the backyard the night of July 3 2009. At approximately 10:30 pm we went to bed and I noticed a huge bright red light through the mesh door of the tent. So I fumbled around in my backpack for the video camera, unzipped the tent door and about 20 seconds after I first saw it I started filming.

The bright red light moved slowly southward, then a white light emerged and went up from it. I tried to follow the white light with the camera, but it was really hard to see in my small viewfinder, hence the jerky camera. Shortly after the white light emerged, the red light blinked off while the white light went south at a pace that was about 3x faster than the red light had been traveling, then it faded and disappeared completely.

I'm not sure what this is, but I don't think it could be one of those flare/balloon hoaxes due to the increased speed of the white light. You can get a feel of the speed based on the silhouette of the plant in the final frames. Also, there was no wind that night. At any rate, it was pretty cool to see something like this in the sky. If anyone has seen something similar please comment about it. I'm curious about what this could be.

NOTE: first thing I thought of was that this was a rocket or firework. But, after watching it a few more times and reading some of the response, this probably something else...Lon

The witness later added: If I could film it over again I would have not zoomed in. That was a mistake, because without the treeline it's hard to see how it's moving.

The red light was actually there longer than the video shows... about 20-30 seconds. It just sort of appeared & moved sideways.

It is hard to tell which object goes which direction from the footage. However when I saw this it definitely seemed to me that the white light was ejected upward from the red light.

It really didn't seem to move like a rocket when viewed with the naked eye. It moved straight to the south and the red light didn't change in size.

That said, I haven't ruled out the possibility that this could be some kind of firework or rocket, but it was in the air for over a minute total, the red light was extremely bright, and I just can't explain the white light coming out and moving quickly to the south in a straight line. Just weird.