Fireball over Plano, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object rose in the southwest sky and continued on overhead to the northeast until no longer visible behind the treeline. It wiggled side-to-side a little in its flight path but flew mostly straight. It was bright orange and crossed the sky quickly, in a matter of seconds. It looked like a firework at first, but didn't burst--it just kept going. Date is flawed. We have changed it, to reflect a sighting in September 2014, not October 2014. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114046). 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
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