Fireball over Moundsview, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Myself and two friends were hanging out on the deck talking when we noticed something different. A round red object about 20 yards from us moving just above the tree line. Maybe the size of a beach ball. It was silent, moving slowly across the sky hugging the tree tops. So close to us! It almost looked like a ball of fire with a white light in the middle on the bottom. The lights were pulsing. It kept sowly traveling away from us until out of sight. It was not fireworks! Not a plane! This was something we had never seen before! We did get pictures but it was kind of far away by the time we had the cameras out. How wierd and cool!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111351). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-02 → 2014-07-19