As reported

Fireball over Fairfield, OH

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Orange orbs rise and hover before disappearing.

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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April 30, 2021 · 12:45 AM · FIREBALL

Fairfield, OH

Saw a green streak, fireball coming in a downward direction about 12 o'clock high in the night sky, northern sky, towards dayton ohio from my location in fairfield at about 12:45. Am. The object was greener towards the front fading to white at the tail. Lasted maybe a second, two at the most. Watched for other objects in the sky for another 10 min. Saw nothing else, maybe a meteor? not sure was very fast. Iv seen meteors fall before, never green, unusual.

June 6, 2017 · 11:45 PM · CIRCLE

Fairfield, OH

There were no clouds in the sky at the time, nor any reason for it to just vanish.

November 21, 2014 · 11:57 PM · TRIANGLE

Fairfield, OH

Saw a ‘V’ shaped lights move from one side of the sky to the other in under 6 seconds. We live in plane and helicopter fly zone so are used to seeing them. My wife spotted the ‘V’ shape moving from a section of the sky behind me to the north east. As I turned I spotted what appear to be a ‘V’ of lights either very low or very large. Didn’t think anything of it until I noticed it was moving faster than any plane, helicopter, or flock of birds that I have ever seen. Totally silent, moving north east to south west across the city. When I first saw it in the mid sky, within 4 seconds, it had flown over the city and into the clouds on the horizon. Something that would have taken any known source a minute or more to accomplish, this it did in just over a few seconds. The craft was larger than the ‘V’ of lights but we couldn’t make out the actual shape in the dark. Only noting the few stars shining over the city lights disappearing behind it as it passed. The ‘V’ reminded me of a flock of geese but no way could geese move that fast over that distance. They wouldn’t block out the stars as they passed either. Can’t explain it or identify it, so can only say it was an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

July 12, 2011 · 11:10 PM · DISK