Fireball over Medicine Hat (Canada), AB · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A ball of light, like a snow plow in the winter throwing snow out both sides. In the trail were three other yellow balls of light way behind and spaced apart. At the end was another ball of yellow light. No pieces falling, very slow moving, 8 seconds of travel time across the full sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137413). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Canadian military and radar records answer to the Access to Information Act; historic UFO files are held by Library and Archives Canada. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2017-11-21 → 2017-12-08
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