Fireball over Winter Springs, FL
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The report, as filed
Something caught my eye while sitting on the couch. When I looked over I saw a single orange looking fireball with an orange trail taveling fairly quickly going northeast to southeast. Not super fast, but not slow either. It looked like what I would expect a rocket launch might look like but it was traveling across the sky not up from the ground. It also looked to be at a high altitude. It traveled across the sky and disappeared behind clouds after 20 seconds or so.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116417). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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