Fireball over Fort Bragg, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Walked outside with girlfriend as she was going to work. Spotted a single light in the north sky and remarked on it - she said it was airplane. I said that glows different and there are no green and red lights marking lights - just a orange glow, unlike airplanes. We watched as 2 more joined it, and I said "getting camera", ran inside, came out and she said there is a 4th light, I started filming as we talked, but only seemed to capture street lights. The other 3 lights seemed to start to go up into the low clouds after 5 minutes or so, as the first light started flickering as it appeared to disappear into the low clouds as well about a minute after the other 3 lights vanished. No sound heard by either of us.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116498). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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