Fireball over Buellton, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A large white contrail with a point traveled across the sky, I only caught the end of the event and when it left there was a large blue fog/haze/cloud streak where it had been and a big white cloud following it. It looked like the object came down then to the right (I think North) and then went back into the atmosphere. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #123808). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-11-04 → 2015-11-21
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