Fireball over Churchville, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
About 10:30 on the night of Oct 3rd I saw a large red orange fire ball about 30 degrees in the southern sky traveling from east to west. It passed behind some trees and I could see it through the trees. When It broke into open sky again it appeared to jog to the right, (north) and then it gained altitude and disappeared. There was no sound, and no tail.I called three police dept. in our area no reported anything.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115186). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-30 → 2014-10-17
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