Fireball over Sutherlin, OR
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The report, as filed
I walked outside by 11:20 p.m. I looked up in the sky North. I was smoking a cigarette I saw orange lights big craft ran inside got my film and I got my camera and recorded it and then it hovered for a while moved around in like a circle and then headed north.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132078). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-01-04 → 2017-01-21
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