Fireball over Boonsboro, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We received a number of other reports of the same event from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Other witnesses also suggested that the object did not look, or behave, like a meteor. However, we suspect the event was caused by a classic meteor. Video footage of the event is posted to the American Meteor Society website. PD PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130446). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-01 → 2016-10-18
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