Fireball over Lively Grove, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looked like a orange star at first off on the distance. We were driving east. As we got closer it looked like a orange fireball. We drove under it and as it got fit her behind us it started rising up in the sky, until eventually disappearing. It was fairly high and slow. Hard to tell, it was pitch dark
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128194). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-06-29 → 2016-07-16