Fireball over Sutherlin, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving home from work tonight going northbound and it was very dark and there was light fog. On the right side of the freeway, I seen a bright red ball pretty big coming from lower part of the sky going Horizontally across to the left side. It had like a lighter red following tail following behind it. I don't know if it was a falling star or a meteor, for I never seen either. I do know it was red.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #125259). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-01-10 → 2016-01-27