Fireball over Petersburg, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was leaving work driving down Washington St. By the library, and as I look up, I saw 3 orange balls sitting in 1 spot side by side. At this point I slow my car completely down and they appear to vanish within the clouds. As the 3 vanish I see another appear within the cloud and in seconds I see a 5th one that was extremely bright orange but it look as if it had came from the ground, and it was rising higher and higher.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112354). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-05 → 2014-08-22
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