Fireball over Cleveland (east side of), OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Sitting on the porch and an enormous amount of reddish, but twinkling, flying crafts where heading east, first moving as if in formation together like a group, but close, then the other crafts came lingering behind heading the in the same direction flashing and a few hovering.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135663). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-08-08 → 2017-08-25