Fireball over Jordan, MT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Off to the East, I saw what I can only describe as a "comet", or what I think one would look like. It was a bright green bright ball with light trailing behind it, tails? And it fell off into the dark sky and disappeared. The entire experience was less than a minute, feels considerably longer because of how detailed I remember the experience being and all the thoughts I had in the few seconds trying to rationalize what I saw
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131579). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-11-14 → 2016-12-01