Fireball over Richmond (Canada), BC · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Standing outside in Richmond, looking towards the North Shore Mountains, and saw a "fire-ball" looking light. At first we thought that it might be an meteor or a plane on fire that was about to crash into the mountain. As it moved, a long tail trailed the large "fire-ball" east and suddenly stopped moving for a few seconds and dispersed into two "fire-ball" objects. They then started going back west and stopped again and looked to have disappeared. The "fire-ball" light had gone and now they started to flicker with a blue and white light. They had turned again and traveled east fast and upwards. It was very strange how it had gone from a large "fire-ball" looking object to a smaller flickering object. The whole experience and now knowing that there is something out there is very unsettling.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111545). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2014-07-10 → 2014-07-27
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