Fireball over Hibbing, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
2 bright orange/ orange-yellow balls of light lost like a fireball without flames traveled across the sky over my house in Hibbing, Minnesota they made absolutely no sound and stayed in a line stopping for a moment and then proceeded to fly silently before stopping one last time and vanishing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133985). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-05-03 → 2017-05-20
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