Fireball over Rancho Bernado, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
After dropping my daughter off at Rancho Bernado High School for swim team practice, we were exiting the parking lot facing south-west and encountered a large contrail apparently created by two glowing objects. The first almost appeared as if it could have been leading the second, was larges and throwing off light both forward and behind. After a few minutes, the second object deviated its flight path away from the first, disappearing below the horizon. The first object continued its trajectory (perhaps 90 degrees apart from the second, and eventually disappeared below the horizon also. I captured this event on my cell video. Witnessed by my wife, who was in the car with me. Another car had stopped in front of me to observe the event.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137971). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-19 → 2018-01-05
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