Fireball over Fall River Mills, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Comet like light in sky over Northern Calif mountains. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
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 2002-10-11 → 2002-10-28
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October 13, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FLASH
Fall River Mills, CA
Facing northeast and caught a glimpse of a flash of light to the west. A couple minutes later i caught a glimpse of another flash of light in the south. The night was clear with no clouds that could produce lightning. I didn't see any object or craft.
May 20, 2013 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Fall River Mills, CA
As my wife and I were traveling east on ca hwy299 we noticed 4 round orange/red objects in the sky then all of a sudden 2 of them moved