Fireball over Kaukauna, WI
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The report, as filed
On the evening of August 8, at approximately 9:40 p.m., my daughter was leaving my house, and I followed behind to walk her to her car. She looked up as she was walking and commented “what’s that?” I then looked up and saw three bright orange colored lights in the sky with two moving parallel together and another following behind as in a triangular shape. As we continued to watch what I now call fireballs, I saw four more that seemed to originate from a lower altitude and climb higher following behind the original three lights. As the lights climbed higher into the almost completely clear blue sky, each one took its turn fading into nothing. One of the lights seemed to glow longer than the others before finally fading out. As I watched all of this taking place, my daughter had taken out her cellphone and was videotaping. The lights are visible on her video, but are not of the intensity that could be seen with the naked eye. These lights made no sound.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112320). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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