Fireball over Daytona, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We watched it stay in the same place for about 2 minutes . And while we watched it it glowed , it slowly started to shrink inward . It never moved it shrunk from the outside in. We both felt uncomfortable. So we went back to our hotel. Our kids were outside , so we told them what we saw. And at that time we all 4 of us witnessed it again. But this time it was way up in the sky. It didnt stay long , but we saw something that was not from here.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111840). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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