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Time: 6/18/2025 - 10:04pm EST

Location: Southeast Michigan, outside of Metro Detroit


Submission Statement: I saw a bright green light out of the corner of my eye but it was over way too quickly to identify. I had my security camera record the past minute of footage and I'm not certain what this object was. The footage isn't great, and there's no audio. It only caught the object streaking by, disappearing briefly, and possibly re-appearing and exploding/falling from out of frame to the right. After hitting record, I checked FlightRadar and made sure there were no vehicles anywhere in that vicinity/direction. I also do CE5 sometimes and have seen some odd results (not myself, but correlating reports in my area very shortly afterwards) - but this was not one of those times, no meditation at the time or anything either.

I have a feeling it's prosaic because there's several things that it *could* be, but I'm curious if anyone has seen anything similar that might point to an answer. A few thoughts:

\- Firefly - It appears to be too far off in the distance and moving too quickly to be a bug

\- Green lightning - We've had rolling thunderstorms (even a tornado touchdown) throughout the day. Green lightning immediately came to mind, though I think lightning would move more quickly and wouldn't be in as straight of a line

\- Fireworks - Having been a windy / stormy /rainy day, I don't think anyone would be lighting off fireworks at this time of night. There were also no loud sounds, but I was inside at the time - there could have been sound off in the distance that I didn't hear. Lastly, if the odd "explosion" / lighting effect at the end while it's off-frame is meant to be a firework going off...that's a pretty lame firework lol

\- Meteor - This seems most plausible based on the straight line it's traveling in, however the object appears to be going from the ground, upwards. I know parallax is a bitch so I could just be misinterpreting the actual direction it was moving in, such as if it just appears to be moving Up just because it's moving closer to the camera, etc. It's also very overcast currently and the object could have moved behind cloud cover, which might explain why it disappears after a second or two (if it was truly that high in the sky)

\- Drone/Chinese lantern - Both of these seem least likely in my opinion, just due to the perceived speed


Is there anything else I'm missing?