Fireball over Lake Wiley, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was sitting fishing on our dock, and my little brother said, "did you see that" he had just seen as what he described as a fireball flying over his head, that suddenly disappeared. Then about ten minutes later I saw the same thing. It was like a fireball with futuristic tiles on it so it looked like the fire was a camp or a disguise as a meteor. I saw it, but where the last one disappeared, and then it was gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135810). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-08-16 → 2017-09-02