Circle over Middlesboro, KY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was dark and they just started shooting the fireworks, when to the right of the sky they was a circular ball of fire appeared to be floating up and as it went up, the smaller it was becoming, until it disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110953). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-01 → 2014-07-18
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