Light over Philadelphia area, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We saw a fireball hovering through the trees in the woods close to where I live. It was an oval shape and orange and pink and it was glowing bright. It then began rising and I ran after it into a baseball field to catch a better view and flew away from me and into the sky and then ascending into the upper strata. I kept my eyes on it as it flew to far away to see into the stars. Source of report fails to indicate the date of the event. We have assigned an artificial date. Hoax?? PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114050). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-25 → 2014-10-12