Fireball over Garden City, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Sitting on a patio visiting with family at night, we saw several (6-8?) weird, glowing orange spheres slowly move across the sky in succession. We couldn't tell how big they were or how far away with nothing to give them scale. It took a few minutes for each to come from one direction and disappear into the distance in the other direction. They didn't make a sound. In attendance were a 45-year-old electrical engineer, a 43-year-old securities attorney and the attorney's aunt and uncle who live there.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #147030). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-24 → 2014-10-11
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