Fireball over Blackshear, GA
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The report, as filed
Big glow of neon green falling from the 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 2007-01-02 → 2007-01-19
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June 8, 2023 · 12:37 AM · SPHERE
Blackshear, GA
My dad saw, whatever it was, first while he was walking by himself in a wooded area between my neighborhood and one close to mine where there is a pronounced dirt trail/track around an overgrown man-made pond. From his words, "I was walkin' around the pond a few minutes ago, and I seen this ball of light in the air flashing like it was taking pictures! I sat there and watched it turn around the end of the pond and keep going without making a sound. I ran to see where it went, and it was gone!" At the time of telling me this, I had just gotten home from a friend's house to find him in the truck with it cranked and ready to go. He was telling me that he was about to go get me so we could ride around to the other neighborhood, which was in the direction that he last saw it moving. As we got to the end of main road in the adjacent neighborhood, we both saw it. I immediately pulled my phone's camera up and out of the window of the passenger truck door and began recording. In the video, you can see a bright ball of light flashing that seems to move away from the camera, further into the treeline on the other side of the opening it was originally in. After thinking about all possible ways to debunk what we saw, I came to thinking I may have been up a little to long and was mistaking the blinking light of a cell tower that is normally seen right above the treeline in a couple directions at night. Even after rewatching the video, I convinced myself that the ball of light was motionless and it was just my shakiness moving it on-screen. The strange part about that being the reason would be that the cell tower has a red blinking light, and if that were the case, there would be no possible way I could the camera far enough to move the light behind the trees. I was sitting still in the passenger seat of a truck, stopped at the end of a road. Thinking back, I could also very vividly, with the naked eye, see the tops of the trees around the orb light up with every flash as it moved further into the trees. The picture shows the location and view as a reference. It was accidentally taken with the flash as I was in a rush to get the camera out to film a video.
April 23, 2021 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
Blackshear, GA
I have recorded a video of this sighting
May 9, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Blackshear, GA
A fire like sphere slowly appeared in the sky above the tree line 2-4 miles away. It held its position steady, then faded out as another faded into light just above to its right. The second object did the same as the first and at that moment another appeared to the right. This dimming Christmas light type pattern stopped entirely, then reappeared two more times. They all migrated to the north. 3 separate formations at 3-4 lights each formation. None of them seemed to move at all. All the same orange fire like dimming glow.
August 25, 2016 · 10:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Blackshear, GA
It was sitting in the middle of the tree tops all I could see was 2 yellow lights and it was as big in width as my front poarch, it saw me come out and in like 2 seconds it was gone this is the second time I have seen a big 1 like that out here. Have seen a couple smaller 1s in the past.
October 12, 2015 · 11:12 PM · FIREBALL
Blackshear, GA
Monday, Oct 12th 2015, I saw what appeared to be a beautiful meteor fly through the sky. I was at a local track stargazing at around 11:12 PM when this happened. It was a large fiery ball with a trail of light that flew nearly directly over me and disappeared behind trees to my right. It was beautiful. But no one else in my area has seemed to have witnessed it. It seemed to be very close to earth, or either it was very large. It wasn't your average shooting star. It appeared to be well within our atmosphere.
January 3, 2015 · 8:15 PM · FLASH
Blackshear, GA
Around 8:15 PM, more or less, on January 3, 2015, we noticed a white flashing light, like a strobe light in the night sky over Blackshear, Georgia. The light had a star-like appearance. The light seemed to move erratically, in small jumps with components perpendicular to the direction of general motion, which was north to south. It almost seemed as if the flashes were confined to a small area around the apparent center of motion. The flashes got to about 25 degrees above the SSE horizon, and then swung back towards a generally northerly direction, moving with the same erratic motion. When the flashes got to the northern part of the sky, the apparent source suddenly accelerated and disappeared in a northerly direction.