Light over Earlimart, Allensworth area., CA

The report, as filed

Standing outside, across from Big Bs truck stop on Front st in earlimart, ca, looking west, south-west, toward nothing but farmland, I saw what I believed was a firework going up. It had a orange-yellow glow to it, similar to the yellow light emitting from a farm home just below the area the light came up from, at least from my perspective. The light seemed to get brighter, realizing it seemed to be pointing in my direction, I figured it to be a drone from some jerk messing around. I turn my body to it as the light seems to be coming towards me. At this point, it's obviously too high to be a drone, so knowing this, I figure it came up from the horizon from further out than that house. But being in the San Joaquin Valley, I know the mountains are all around, so distance wise, I know it came up from the valley somewhere and am pretty sure it didn't come from over the mountains that are to the west. As the light sort of got brighter, still shining towards my direction, a red dot started to appear. Then, as quickly as it was seemingly coming towards my direction from the west, south-west direction, it started going south, and rising upwards as it went almost straight to the left after coming towards me. That red light got more intense, the orange yellow was gone and there had started to be a red streak behind it as it went south. This red "tail", as it seemed, followed directly behind the dot, no gaps in tail, no smoke, no exhaust, shot south, going upwards gradually, from my perspective. The red streak stops, then from the dot I see the atmosphere around the object begin to part from directly in front of the object. Still no smoke, no plumes, no exhaust. Upon realizing that it has entered the atmosphere, I go back and forth from inside were my wife is to try to get her to see. Also, I have never seen anything space related except on TV and the internet, so I'm super excited. It arches a bit higher at this point, but increases speed going southwards. If I had to say, the object may have been going south, south-east. Upon entering the atmosphere. I believe the red streak was it entering the lower atmosphere, then the hazy separation of the atmosphere was it pushing through and getting into space. At the point of atmosphere separation, the red dot had become tiny, an indication of how far away this is. As the dot makes its way, pushing through the atmosphere, I am going in and out of the rv, getting my 11 yo daughter to atleast witness. Once i had her outside, to my amazement, the object had already made it through the atmosphere, leaving two giant illuminated auras from around it, peculiarly, still no smoke, exhaust, not even the haze was directly behind it, as if the moment it reached the outside of our atmosphere, it left with such force, any haze left from the spreading of the atmosphere seemed to disipate exceptionally quickly. My daughter and I saw the giant spreading of the atmosphere, went inside instantly, made my wife come out in less than a minute, and the light and evidence of the atmosphere being distorted in any way was primarily gone. Just the haze of sorts leaving an almost unrecognizable area that you only can notice if someone saw and pointed it out to you, as I did with my wife. I took note of stars and constellations, I've never studied astrology in any way, but orions belt is where it seemingly vanished into the sky. Atleast, I think it's orions belt. But regardless of the actual constellation name, I know which stars it left towards. The speed, unfathomable. But I know it was about 5 minutes long of an incident, but not 7 minutes or longer. Maybe 6 minutes. Either way, I know it's not a normal rocket because of exhaust, that it's not a comet or shooting star, no tail whatsoever except when first speeding southwards, starting the more progressive climb that it took. It went through the atmosphere, seemingly from the ground, in a matter of roughly 5 minutes. Honestly, it could've been less, because I wasn't looking at time at all. But know it was over in minutes. My daughter and I both saw it pretty much finish getting through the atmosphere. There were no flashing lights. No logical way it could be something human made, given the amount of energy needed to make it through the atmosphere at such speed without leaving any evidence. I believe the red streak of a tail was atmosphere buring up around the object because it was leaving at such a high velocity, it was already red just before the tail started. Also, the tail was short, not long, nothing left behind at all afterwards. My wife thinks I'm crazy, daughter wants to watch Paul, and I thank you for your time. I hope others saw and report somewhere as well. Thank you for your time.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176879). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.