Fireball over West Boylston, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three nights ago, we saw this same object pass over our yard, and last night we saw it twice. Description is the same but event details are different. Tonight we saw an orange "fireball" that flickered reddish and looked like an airplane on fire at first. Didn't make any noise. This evening it approached a bit slower than the other nights and then stayed in place for about 2 minutes. It started to move again, about 90 degrees from how it approached but for the first time of the three nights did NOT pass right over our yard. The "fireball" then flickered and went out. None of us has ever seen anything like it. Last night (second event of three) it seemed as if the object had a rotating light emanating from it but it was hard to tell because the whole thing flickers somewhat. We tried to get a video but didn't have enough memory. We'll try again tomorrow because it has come around the same time each (3) event.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113593). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-12 → 2014-09-29
From the same sky