Fireball over Albany, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two fireballs in northwest sky
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1999-10-09 → 1999-10-26
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Looked out my window at 10:30pm to see what appeared to be a very bright planet but it was strobing. Looked at it for awhile trying to make out what it could be. It was stationary for the duration. Video makes it appear to move, that’s just me not being stable. Decided to get my phone and record for a minute. Took the video (poor quality), returned my phone to the charger. When I turned around the light was gone. Took screen shots, frame by frame of the video and it’s pretty obvious that there’s some type of lighting and orbs forming a shape. It would pulse multiple colors rapidly, dim out and reset a pattern of colors. From a distance, it looked similar to a landing gear lights on a plane in brightness. Really odd that it was stationary and disappeared so rapidly. There was also no aircraft noise and my radar app showed no aircraft in the area. Both my wife and I had woken up strangely and both noticed this out our north facing window.
May 10, 2023 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Albany, OR
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Albany, OR
I noticed weird pattern of clouds after being really cloudy all day, on Ring camera so I went outside and to smoke and saw a bright ball of light hovering and getting brighter . I video taped it and zoomed in and the light from my camera triggered a green ball of light . It was not a normal picture of what I thought was the moon at 1st. It was something reflecting and then the wave of odd clouds came in to cover it. It was very strange . I have a video but it’s not letting me upload it
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Albany, OR
Was watching this fast moving craft with 2 flashing green lights go across the sky. As it got above us it stopped for about 3 seconds then continued acceleration forward at a much quicker speed until it was out of sight. Was extremely high up over downtown albany oregon
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