Fireball over Boonville, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I'm a country boy. Often I sit out at night and enjoy the warm summer nights. Tonight I saw what looked like a white ball soaring through the sky trailed by flames. As soon as this happened I drove to the nearest town market (about 30 minutes away) to get something to drink only to have the other three people in the store including the clerk talking about what had just happened and if anyone wanted to investigate because it looked like it crash landed on a local road 50 or 60 miles out.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128807). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-07-24 → 2016-08-10
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