Fireball over Merriville, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I went outside on my mother third floor balcony to smoke a cigarette about two to three minutes later I see something come from the right side of the apartment building it looked like something was on fire in the sky there is a mall and a movie theater across the street the object appear over the parking lot between the two buildings it then travel north toward Gary as it was traveling north I could see commercial airplanes in the distance but this was not a plane I never seen any thing like that before it looked like fire flying in the sky moving slowly at first then with great speed
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114754). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-10-26 → 2014-11-12