Fireball over Pass Christian, MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
THE NEXT NIGHT, WHILE RIDING HORSES TOWARD THE RIVER, WE SAW THE SAME FIREBALL ABOVE THE TREE LINE IN THE SKY MOVING EAST TO WEST. Most green fireballs, we suspect, are meteors, i.e. rocks coming in at high velocity from space, containing copper, which incandesces green. However, if the witness's estimate of the duration is anywhere close to being accurate, the object, almost certainly, was not a meteor. A one-minute sighting is too long for the overwhelming majority of meteors, and probably all of them. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112647). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-12 → 2014-08-29
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