Fireball over Cashmere, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Green orb flew over Dawn Lee Court in Cashmere
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
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 2003-08-11 → 2003-08-28
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