Fireball over Mason City, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At around 22:25 my wife and I are getting I the car to go to work when we saw an orange fireball in the west sky traveling from south to north it was very slow moving the light went from dim to bright many times we could only see it for about 5 min before it had passed a tree line and was out of our sight
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114903). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-10-18 → 2014-11-04
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