Fireball over Centerville, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We where just sitting in the car an we seen 2 lights but it looked like car lights in the sky so that caught our attention knowing plains have onw light an flashing blue an red lights it was going in a straight agle then it stopped in mid air flashed little lights then wit up we seen it going thru the clouds then fire from the bottom an then nonthing just like that like 5 mins after that we seen 2 black jets like army jets real close to the ground but high enough for safty an a hard loud wind but no sound from the other 2 flying objects an the 2 jets came from a totaly different direction.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131537). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-11-25 → 2016-12-12