Other over Richlands, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) in addition to my prior report i would like to add something.the time i saw the fireball on the sky suddenly i heard the sound of high frequency electricity ...like zzzzzz.i cant describe it better cause its a sound.and when the fireball dissapeared the sound stopped.i ve been asked the direction of the subject and it was north. ((END ADDENDUM)) The witness describes a very peculiar phenomenon, which is not at all well understood by astronomers. The object described may have been a meteor, in which case, a person on the ground should not have been able to hear it, given its presumed altitude, and given that it was almost certainly traveling at hyper-sonic velocity. Witnesses on the ground, if they hear a meteor at all, sound hear a sonic boom, like a clap of thunder, but they should not hear a "zzzzzz" sound. Please see a similar report from Roswell, NM, for an earlier date. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132408). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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