Fireball over Mountain View, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We watched for about 5 mins but the object never moved then we finally lost sight of it. We could see the Chen trails from two planes in the same proximity and this was nothing at all like that, and MUCH larger. We did take a picture as we drove.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131120). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-11-06 → 2016-11-23
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