Fireball over Westover, WV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Jjust (coincidentally) coming back from point pleasant, WV, while we got out of the car this bright orange light was shooting across the sky, not fast enough to be a meteor or comet, after a few seconds and shotting some pictures I went on my phone to see what it was (I was thinking it was a satellite and the space app could tell me what it was), but as I looked for it again all I saw was a white stream of light that quickly vanished.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136228). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-09-13 → 2017-09-30