Fireball over Willow Street, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking toward the western skyline above the trees I started to observe round balls of light slowly moving in a southerly direction. Their colors varied from yellowish to orange to white. They did not make any sounds. A total of seven of them appeared and then faded away off in the distance toward the southern horizon.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #123185). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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