Fireball over Pell Lake, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My fiance and I were looking outside up at the stars and he pointed out an object that looked like an orange fireball moving at a pretty quick speed then seemed to slow down. I took out my phone to record it and then it was out of sight because of the trees in our back yard. My fiance said it looked triangular in shape. It definitely had a little bit of what looked like a light smoke trail behind it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128085). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-06-23 → 2016-07-10
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