Fireball over Sullivan, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Me and my father were watching the space station on 10/1/2016. I walk into the house as my dad calls me out to see this burning ball that as it moved it left a strange trail. Also, it was dropping something from its bottom, multiple objects dropped and disappeared. Then the burning ball slowely started flickering and disappeared. It scared us both so I ran in the house to grab my camera. Then tried to film it but it started to fade.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130402). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-09-28 → 2016-10-15
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