Fireball over Montgomery, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking from a distance it appeared as an big dark orange star.. then it started to move over in the direction in which I was driving. It began to get lower which made it look bigger to revealed a deep orange red center with a light orange ragged outter side. Then it proceeded to shoot upward in a zigzag motion until it was no longer within my view..freaked me out..
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120311). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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