Fireball over Effingham, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving home on Hwy 52 I saw these strange orange balls. It was about to start raining. It was lightning in the west. I want to say the balls where absorbing the energy from the lightning, every flash of light the balls would disappear and reappear
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112618). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-15 → 2014-09-01
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