Fireball over Kissimme/Champions Gate, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving Westbound on I-4 at about exit 62, when I looked at the sky and saw what at first glance looked like a comet or shooting star. I began staring at the object as it didn’t appear to be moving very fast all and almost looked as though it was descending from the Earth’s atmosphere. It looked like a fireball and left a type of fiery trail. After watching the object slowly descend for about 10 minutes I then decided to grab my phone and begin recording. I appeared to be the only one who noticed it as the other people in the cars around me appeared to be focused on other things (mostly their cell phones). I continued to watch the object while filming and saw it what I can only explain as course correct as it stop descending and slowly turned righ and then continued to again descending downward at what looked like a 90 degree angle. After the object had descended for what I cie we was about 15 minutes or so the fireball and trail disappeared and it just! looked like a glowing metallic oblong object. I filmed for about 10 minutes before completely losing sight of the object due to an apartment building blocking my view.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137348). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-11-15 → 2017-12-02