Fireball over Jackson, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Early morning fireball going east to west.
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 2014-01-01 → 2014-01-18
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March 9, 2022 · 9:22 PM · CHANGING
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March 5, 2020 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Jackson, OH
At about 8:10 PM Eastern we saw a series of 15 to 25 moving lights in the sky in a line moving from south west to north east (roughly seemingly in the direction of Portsmouth, Ohio towards Chillicothe / Cleveland, Ohio. These were solid lights that were fading into view and then faded out of view at a certain point in the sky (no real clouds in the area) so it appeared as though they were flying from a lower to higher plane / angle as if going into the stratosphere or space. Due to the number of the objects, the shock of the experience and way they were fading out we were unable to count the exact number and there could have been many more. 6 people saw this event. The objects were initially mistaken as stars due to the seeming height and faintness of their lighting. It is possible that at this time the western setting sun could have been reflecting from their bodies and causing this lighting of the many objects. There were 3-5 other flying planes or jets with flashing lights that appeared to be monitoring the situation / flying around the area. There was a sonic boom approximately 30-60 minutes before we saw this. There has been a sonic boom every evening / night this week (sometimes later than this), which is peculiar for this area. The Wright Patterson Air Force Base resides approximately 70 miles northwest of this region, however these objects did not appear to be coming from or going to this location. These have been particularly powerful booms that nearly are able to knock things off the walls.
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September 8, 2019 · 10:05 PM · FIREBALL
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While on 279 heading to Jackson Lake, seen a large orange and yellow "fireball". It quickly moved using a downward and to the right very fast and disappeared in the sky. I also lost cell signal for several miles and I usually do not lose a signal.