Fireball over Crown Point, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I had stepped out on my porch to smoke a cigarette and I always look up to the stars then from my right side view I see a fireball coming across the sky below the cloud line going in a straight path to the left I called my wife to come look grabbed my phone and took 2 pictures
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134880). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-06-28 → 2017-07-15
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