As reported

Fireball over Port Jefferson, NY

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

We saw a line of orange red fireball shaped objects over the harbor in port Jefferson. Then the objects huddled together and hovered. There was no aircraft sounds. Then the crafts or bright lights as they appeared went into a V shaped formation and all of a sudden they disapated and went straight up so quickly that they became tiny red dots and disappeared. The whole incident lasted about 15 minutes.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114017). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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