Fireball over Gonzales, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
These amber balls of light were in a type of formation and they all were stationary for a moment above then they all started traveling together in the same direction at the exact same speed...quite slow. They were glowing amber and no blinking lights were noted. We watched them either circling over the sky or more and more kept coming. We could not tell, due to the tree line. We watched them for what seemed like 15 minutes. They were beautiful. There could have been either 7 to 14. Depending on whether they were just circling, or more coming after the first 7. Planes started flying around close; they had to have seen them. There's no way they couldn't have seen them.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #124052). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-11-10 → 2015-11-27