Fireball over San Antonio, TX
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The report, as filed
The object hovered over our street originating from the south. It flew in a quarter circle pattern over the convent property across from us as it dimmed its light and dissapeared. Two identical objects followed after the first object in the same pattern at the same speed and dissapeared at the exact same spot as the first. The only conclusion I can come to, what ever they were, they must have been drawn by the fireworks. They appeared to have been observing them as they hovered over our street at a very low altitude. I never saw an aircraft, nor did I hear an engine sound or propeller sounds and it made no contrail as it flew by. I only saw three separate individual orange redish lights in the sky. And the weather conditions for 01/01/2017 at 12:58am central time in San Antonio TX is, Weather conditions were clear Temperature 48 degrees farenheight Dew point was 46 degrees Humidity was 94% Barometric pressure was 29.83 Wind speed was 0 mph from the north. Precipitation was 0 inches And visibility was 10 miles. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that he is a very capable and reliable witness. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132037). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-29 → 2017-01-15
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