Fireball over Hatfield, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
on a clear, cold night, I looked up and saw a bright yellow, orange fireball. It was low enough that I could clearly make out flames coming out of it in a downward direction. The best I could describe it, is a small, slow moving sun, about the size of a dime. My immediate thought was a hot air balloon on fire, but soon realized that was not what I saw. I had a full view of it for about 5 minutes. As it was nearly out of my field of view, it seemed to extinguish, and reappear. I have pretty extensive experience from the Marines, of what is normal, and what isn't. This was certainly a technology that I have never been exposed to.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116638). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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