Fireball over Southern Pines, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A friend and I were walking around in Weymouth woods. As we came out into a clearing, suddenly I witnessed a brilliantly lit green fireball in the sky to the west. The fireball appeared to be very large in size and seemed to be falling from space. For a moment after it disappeared I expected to hear an explosion, however, there was none. Possible meteor? PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120744). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-07-27 → 2015-08-13
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