Fireball over West Mobile, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I live in west Mobile, Alabama, 5 mins from Mississippi state line and rite on airport blvd a main hwy. Me and my family was grilling last night the night before valintines of 2016 it was 9:30pm, we all saw 5 orange fireballs following each other in a line slowly i heard no sound and no lights blinking it was no airplane im a jet mechanic and i know the FAA and thier were no sequenized flights that night. We only saw them for about 2 mins but as soon as we got our phones ready to record they all vanished lights out at the exact same time we all stood out thier stareing into the sky for 10 mins burning our food on the grill just hoping we would see it again. We are uncertain as to whether this report is a sincere account of what the source asserts he witnessed. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #125842). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-02-10 → 2016-02-27