Fireball over Ozena, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A yellow ball of light was moving across the sky followed by a blue stream trail. Then the ball stopped and seemed to dissipate into a large spherical matter of bright white light and then turned to blue. The blue matter stayed in the sky for 2-3 minutes and then it turned white. The fireball disappeared and then reappeared over the horizon but it was less bright and in the distance. Then it appeared to go straight up and showed another burst of light, then disappeared again. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #123560). 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