Fireball over Coon Rapids, MN
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The report, as filed
It was 11pm. A friend I've known for about 15 years and I were out in his driveway talking. Once before I saw something strange in the sky in our town. Looking up I noticed a "fireball" flying over the tree above us. Seemed to have some aura coming off of it. It was reddish/orange. Directly overhead it was clearest. That was when I immediately though "fireball". As it got further away it took on more of a disc shape and became a darker red. Minutes later another flew over from the same direction. Exactly the same. Then two more maybe 10 minutes later. A few minutes later another two. Another 10 minutes or so came another two. Showing up as two they were never side by side, always one before the other flying on the same flight path. The last two came one by one again like the first two (not paired) minutes between them. All in all it lasted from 11pm-11:45pm (central). All I had with me was my cell phone but I shot three videos in the highest quality I could. You can see a perfect disc shape as it got further away. Zoomed way out in one of the videos to show houses for a little perspective. As an avid sky watcher I always have my eyes peeled!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122411). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-09-23 → 2015-10-10
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