Cylinder over Old Bethpage (Long Island), NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
August 8th, 2015, around 11:25 pm, in Old Bethpage, Long Island, I saw what appeared to be an orange fireball or jet aircraft on fire. The fireball flickered like flames, but had no smoke or smoke trail. I really thought it was an aircraft on fire, and was waiting to see if it plummeted to the ground, even though there were no strobe lights or navigational lights. The fireball flew about the speed of a jet around 10000 feet high from the east to the west over several minutes in a clear evening sky, until it finally disappeared in the west behind a cloud.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120976). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-08-05 → 2015-08-22