Fireball over Tucson (Due N, Low Below An A/C), AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
we were sitting in our hot tub gazing at stars and looked up and saw this low intense white fireball moving north as an
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1998-07-21 → 1998-08-07