Fireball over Cazenovia, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Object started off as a light flash and was initially mistaken for a helicopter. The light was about 100 feet above the ground. The white flash turned into a large blue and green fireball. The ball had a tail with streaks of green, blue and purple following it. The fireball began a very rapid descent for about 15 seconds before disappearing, seemingly into thin air. No crash was heard or felt and there where no metor reports for this town or area reported that night.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118809). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-04-28 → 2015-05-15
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