Fireball over Shell Lake, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My friend & I were checking out the sunset, when we saw a fireball hovering in the sky, it lasted for a couple minutes,then reappeared and slowly went to the East, for another couple minutes, not going that far, then quickly got brighter, and seemed to zoom towards us, then flashed brighter & just disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149896). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-09-28 → 2017-10-15
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