Fireball over Trenton, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
2 orange orbs.Thought they were flying Chinese lanterns at first but definitely not.
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 2011-08-28 → 2011-09-14
From the same sky
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February 5, 2022 · 1:52 AM · FIREBALL
Trenton, MI
I was taking photos of a pretty beam effect the snow was having on larger lights . While taking a photo a bright ball of light came into view and rolled thru the sky. It was only a brief time but I managed to snap three pics as the camera was already up . You can see it move in one pic because the camera was on live mode.
July 17, 2008 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Trenton, MI
Changed from disk to triangle, broke up, never went over horizon, flying away from a nuclear power plant.